> Am 14.04.2021 um 19:16 schrieb Ralf Quint <freedos...@gmail.com>: > > On 4/14/2021 9:30 AM, Thomas Desi wrote: >> Eric, Tomas, >> thanks for this helpful info! >> >> If installing Linux helps to get my files out of FreeDos >> (hm… „free my files!!“ - or is it a "Lockdown-Dos“?), I will do. > You do not have to "install" Linux. Just use a Live CD (my suggestion is > still Linux Mint 20.1 Mate) and use the file manager of that to drag and drop > stuff from your dead Windows onto your USB stick…
THIS IS GOOD NEWS! >> >> My „dream“ was it to „marry“ FreeDOS with a portable USB Stick (Backup and >> Carrying), whilst booting from a Harddisk and working on C:. >> But maybe this is n’t so important after all, how complicated it all seems >> to me. Daunting. > The problem is that (Free)DOS can't properly access any Windows system of the > last 20 years. Even with basic NTFS reader support, on Windows version Vista > and newer, you will likely run into permission issues, which are kind of > resolved on Linux, but will never be working in any DOS… I erased the disk entirely and formatted it FAT32 solely for FreeDOS. So there shouldn’t be any Windows, but maybe resident Evil needs more erasing and partitioning than I did…? >> >> NB: I wonder if there was a „USB 1.0“ Usb-Stick, if FreeDOS prefers USB 1.0? >> Maybe Bret E. Johnson knows something? He was very helpful with his MOUSKEYS >> application, and seems to kow about USB on Dos a lot. > > (Free)DOS just does't care about USB in the first place. USB just became a > thing after DOS wasn't a thing anymore… > nice phrase! Probabely my misconception about FreeDos. I like FreeDos. It’s as simple as FreeDos is. But: I want USB storage support. thanks! Thomas > > Ralf > > > > -- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
