Hi Eric, Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de> ezt írta (időpont: 2019. máj. 23., Cs, 23:47): > > > Hi Samuel, > > > You can get another compatible laptop with CD just for installations. > > Actually DOS is much less hardware-specific than for example Windows. > So you could indeed plug the harddisk of the laptop into "any normal" > computer (after disconnecting other disks in it!) and install DOS "on" > that other computer, but then put the harddisk back into the laptop. > > > You can have many disks and just plug the one you need like a game > > cartridge. > > You expect that USB works, but given that at least booting from USB > does not work, support for USB disks on the laptop seems to be limited. > > > You can just run FORMAT /S to copy a minimal FreeDOS bootable system, > > I strongly recommend to run SYS manually (after FORMAT, in case you > need to format the disk) instead of using FORMAT /S which implicitly > runs SYS but is much less flexible than manual invocation of SYS > where you can play with various command line options. Also, you may > want to reboot between formatting and running SYS anyway. > > > then copy other programs with a laptop ATA USB enclosure. > > Again, USB support in DOS is unlikely to work out of the box on that > old laptop which cannot boot from USB. You would at least have to > install USB drivers before you can copy anything from USB sticks or > USB harddisks. > > But maybe I misunderstand you. You can install a basic FreeDOS on the > laptop, then unplug the harddisk of the laptop and put it into an USB > enclosure. You can then plug the USB enclosure to another computer and > manually copy additional DOS programs to the laptop harddisk. When you > are done, you can take the harddisk out of the USB enclosure and put > it back into the laptop, indeed. > > Regards, Eric
I did followings. Boot the old laptop from FreeDos floppy. Format the HDD from FreeDos. Create a partition on HDD ( 4 GB is the whole HDD ). Reboot. Run SYS to copy system files from booted floppy to hdd. Run xcopy to copy files from FreeDos floppy to FreeDos HDD. Now I have the basic FreeDos on HDD. -- Best, Pali _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
