Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDos booting from a USB stick

2016-04-03 Thread Jerome E. Shidel Jr. 

> On Mar 29, 2016, at 1:26 PM, Thomsen Thomsen  wrote:
> 
> Hello. I managed to create a bootable USB key running FreeDos using Rufus 
> (http://www.howtogeek.com/136987/how-to-create-a-bootable-dos-usb-drive/). It 
> works well and boots fine. I even managed to move files to the USB key. I 
> wanted to install some of the programs from http://www.freedos.org/software/. 
> In general I couldn't get this to work. Is there a way to get the "full 
> install" on a bootable USB key? I don't have a bunch of experience.

Hello, 

I recently made some additions to FDIMPLES and the FreeDOS Installer Preview 
USB stick images.

http://up.lod.bz/FDI

So, starting with FDIMPLES 0.9.1, you can easily update what packages get 
installed with
both BASE and ALL on the distributed USB stick images. You can make additions 
and 
removals to both package sets permanently to you USB stick. This would include 
packages
that are not even on the shipped install media.

Simply add you package to an appropriate subdirectory under \FDSETUP\PACKAGES 
like
GAMES, UTIL or even a new directory like MYSTUFF.

You should boot the install media and quit to DOS.

Run “fdimples /config”

You can then locate your package and set it’s state to none, B or A (not 
installed, 
BASE or BASE + ALL) by using the space/enter key. 

When finished making changes, select OK and the package lists for that USB stick
wil be updated.

If you wish, you can copy the packages LSM file to the \FDSETUP\PKGINFO as a 
.TXT
file. But, this is not required. However, it does allow FDIMPLES to display the 
package 
description information.

Thanks, Jerome
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Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDos booting from a USB stick

2016-03-29 Thread Jerome E. Shidel Jr. 
Hello,

> On Mar 29, 2016, at 1:26 PM, Thomsen Thomsen  wrote:
> 
> Hello. I managed to create a bootable USB key running FreeDos using Rufus 
> (http://www.howtogeek.com/136987/how-to-create-a-bootable-dos-usb-drive/). It 
> works well and boots fine. I even managed to move files to the USB key. I 
> wanted to install some of the programs from http://www.freedos.org/software/. 
> In general I couldn't get this to work. Is there a way to get the "full 
> install" on a bootable USB key? I don't have a bunch of experience.

FYI, I just updated FDI to Preview 15. http://up.lod.bz/FDI
It includes may more packages on the USB version. 

Switching into advanced mode during the installation provides an 
easy way to include these packages on a per/install basis.
You can switch into advanced mode by pressing CTRL+C at the
"Welcome To FreeDOS” screen or at any other time FDI is waiting
for you to pick an option.

The best method to add programs to a custom install stick is to
create a FDI build environment and update the package lists.

However, there is an easy way to add stuff to your own “ALL” install.

1) Place the new packages in the appropriate directory:

FDSETUP\PACKAGES\BASE
FDSETUP\PACKAGES\UTIL
….

2) Add the package to the proper list on the install media:

FDSETUP\SETUP\FDPLBASE.LST
FDSETUP\SETUP\FDPLALL.LST

3) your done. But, you may want its information to show
up in FDIMPLES. So you will need to place a copy of
the package LSM file in the FDSETUP\PKGINFO directory
as a TXT file. You could use 

FDIMPLES /LISTS to create the package lists. However, 
you will need to copy and rename them. FDIMPLES’ list
editing is designed to work with the raw source and FDI
build environments and will require a little extra work 
to use on a pre-built usb image.

Sometime in the hopefully near future, I want to create a couple
YouTube videos on using FDI to build custom releases and
FreeDOS based operating systems.

So, if you have a package for a utility called MYTHING.ZIP

add it to:

FDSETUP\PACKAGES\UTIL

Add util\mything to both or either:

FDSETUP\SETUP\FDPLBASE.LST
FDSETUP\SETUP\FDPLALL.LST

If you wish to create a custom package from scratch,
study one of the simple packages that ship with FDI.
You will need to mimic the directory structor in the 
zip archive. Also, you will need to create a custom
LSM (package information file) in the APPINFO\
directory. 

Hope this helps a little.

Thanks, Jerome.



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Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDos booting from a USB stick

2016-03-29 Thread Rugxulo 
Hi,

On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 12:26 PM, Thomsen Thomsen
 wrote:
>
> Hello. I managed to create a bootable USB key running FreeDos using Rufus
> It works well and boots fine. I even managed to move files to the USB key.

Good to know that it works for you (too).

> I wanted to install some of the programs from
> http://www.freedos.org/software/.

Which ones in particular? Most are mirrored on iBiblio:

https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/

> In general I couldn't get this to work.

Why not? What was the problem (or error)? What exactly did you try that failed?

> Is there a way to get the "full install" on a bootable USB key? I don't have a
> bunch of experience.

"Full install" doesn't really mean much. Sure, you can get "BASE" and
"UTIL" and who knows what else ("EDIT", "NET"), but usually you don't
need all that stuff. If you just want a bunch of stuff to play around
with, then fine. I'm just saying, it's not really necessary to have
ten text editors (for instance).

Anyways, it's been a while since I've tried, but I'm pretty sure that
RUFUS can use an .iso file. In fact, it still lists FreeDOS on its
website under "Non exhaustive list of ISOs Rufus is known to work
with". So try using RUFUS again but specifying the fd11src.iso file.

Or you could use something like 7-Zip (GUI file manager or even
cmdline "7z") to manually extract files from the .iso itself. But most
of this stuff is already available separately on iBiblio in .ZIP form.

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[Freedos-user] FreeDos booting from a USB stick

2016-03-29 Thread Thomsen Thomsen 
Hello. I managed to create a bootable USB key running FreeDos using Rufus (http://www.howtogeek.com/136987/how-to-create-a-bootable-dos-usb-drive/). It works well and boots fine. I even managed to move files to the USB key. I wanted to install some of the programs from http://www.freedos.org/software/. In general I couldn't get this to work. Is there a way to get the "full install" on a bootable USB key? I don't have a bunch of experience.

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