Hi, On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 3:04 PM, Mingcong Bai <jeffbaich...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Oh also... If I have a Panasonic PCMCIA CD-ROM Drive, would I be able to > use it with FreeDOS (then I suppose that I could burn the ISO image and > boot it from the boot floppy...? If the driver works...).
I'm not a hardware guy, so I've never tested most of this low-level stuff. There's too many options. But I can give a few links: * http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/about.html * http://www.freedos.org/software/?prog=smbtmgr " Smart BootManager supports booting from almost all kinds of IDE ATAPI CD-ROMs, including PCMCIA CD-ROMs. You can let the BIOS boot from C: only and assign a password for it, then you can boot from CD-ROM with Smart BootManager. If you have a laptop with a special PCMCIA CD-ROM which has no support for booting in the BIOS, Smart BootManager can help you boot from it. " There's also this potential method: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Torito_%28CD-ROM_standard%29 * http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php?title=MEMDISK#MEMDISK_and_generic_El_Torito_CD-ROM_driver_for_DOS * http://wiki.osdev.org/El-Torito Normally DOS requires a separate (device-specific) driver for CD access, which can be hard to find for old devices (or even new ones). We don't officially have a lot, and the last one we had was (more or less) "abandoned" (closed source) some two years ago: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/ellis/ Some people (also) recommend VIDE-CDD (or OAKCDROM), but I'm unsure of the exact legality of using those (obviously depending on licensing and your country's local laws). Regarding PCMCIA hard disks, I think Deskwork.de (defunct?) had once made public some partial DOS support (TP "unit") that was semi-archived by one FreeDOS enthusiast: http://ericauer.cosmodata.virtuaserver.com.br/soft/by-others/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
