Hey, Thanks for responding. So I ended up getting USB drive support to work. The only trick is you need to insert the device at boot, no hot swapping.
On Sun, Jun 6, 2021, 23:27 dmccunney, <dennis.mccun...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 6, 2021 at 10:51 PM joseph turco <italian.pepe...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > i'm looking at installing freeDOS on an older (XP era) computer. I'm > sorry for my ignorance, but i'm trying to figure out usb support. I read > somewhere that USB drives are not read by the OS while it's already booted, > but WILL read USB drives if it's inserted upon boot. Is this correct? Many > thanks ahead of time. I plan to get a floppy drive for the computer (found > one for sale for 10 bucks) so that I won't rely on USB drives, but I need > it to get QBASIC on the system. > > The issue will be FreeDOS. USB did not exist when DOS was the > dominant PC OS. FreeDOS attempts to be an open source clone of MSDOS, > so it does not have support for stuff introduced after DOS was dead. > > You would need a USB driver loaded in CONFIG.SYS to access the USB > drives from FreeDOS. There is an attempt to create that, but > I'm not sure about the current status. (It didn't work to access USB > ports on a machine where I multibooted with FreeDOS as one of the > OSes.). My memory suggests it needed support for a USB function not in > that driver. That was a few years ago, and things may have improved. > ______ > Dennis > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >
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