Hi, On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 11:29 AM Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de> wrote: > > In the DOS case, you may need USB drivers, > but you may be able to avoid that using a bootable FreeDOS USB disk: > Often, the BIOS supports USB disks as long as you boot from them. > Then you do not need USB drivers for DOS.
His machine is probably too old for that. Maybe I'm wrong, but I assumed he was trying PLoP Boot Manager, just to get it to boot from USB, but failed. (It's then read-only anyways.) That's what I did on my old P4 (dated from 2002), which wouldn't natively boot from USB. Otherwise, yes, use RUFUS to make a simple, bootable DOS-based USB drive (relying on BIOS to treat it as a normal hard drive): * https://rufus.ie/ > The computer inside your Agilent is old and 256 MB RAM > may be too little for modern Windows or Linux, TinyCore? NanoLinux? Puppy? antiX? (I blindly assume one of them would work okay.) * http://tinycorelinux.net/ * https://sourceforge.net/p/nanolinux/wiki/Home/ * http://wikka.puppylinux.com/HomePage * https://antixlinux.com/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
