Re: [Freedos-devel] Rufus/FreeDOS KB locale

2012-01-06 Thread Pete Batard
On 2012.01.05 22:38, Pete Batard wrote: But if we duplicate the ISO fs content exactly on FAT32 USB, wouldn't the same be achieved, with the added bonus of a rw fs rather than ro? Now that I've looked at the FreeDOS install disk, I realize that it's of course not as simple as this. I thought

Re: [Freedos-devel] Rufus/FreeDOS KB locale

2012-01-05 Thread Pete Batard
On 2012.01.04 18:59, Bernd Blaauw wrote: Getting USB drives bootable can be a real challenge (unpartitioned versus partitioned, geometry, BIOS-quirks, maximum compatibility etc). Yeah. That's why I tried to stay as close as possible to the HP utility as it seems to have the best rate of

Re: [Freedos-devel] Rufus/FreeDOS KB locale

2012-01-05 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 5-1-2012 19:54, Pete Batard schreef: Yeah. That's why I tried to stay as close as possible to the HP utility as it seems to have the best rate of success. I'm also currently overriding the partition table to create a single one, but at least the Windows formatting utility allows

Re: [Freedos-devel] Rufus/FreeDOS KB locale

2012-01-05 Thread Pete Batard
On 2012.01.05 20:06, Bernd Blaauw wrote: Op 5-1-2012 19:54, Pete Batard schreef: Yeah. That's why I tried to stay as close as possible to the HP utility as it seems to have the best rate of success. I'm also currently overriding the partition table to create a single one, but at least the

Re: [Freedos-devel] Rufus/FreeDOS KB locale

2012-01-04 Thread Pete Batard
On 2012.01.04 14:00, escape wrote: Is there any chance to see Rufus under Linux? Well feature-wise, Rufus is reusing ms-sys [1] internally, which was modified to work on Windows, so as far as the DOS bootable part is concerned, there's nothing Linux users shouldn't already have. With regards

Re: [Freedos-devel] Rufus/FreeDOS KB locale

2012-01-04 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 4-1-2012 2:38, Pete Batard schreef: If that's the case, then I will feel obligated to ask what you guys would like to see added to Rufus, to better suit your needs. ;) Getting USB drives bootable can be a real challenge (unpartitioned versus partitioned, geometry, BIOS-quirks, maximum

Re: [Freedos-devel] Rufus/FreeDOS KB locale

2012-01-03 Thread Pete Batard
Hi Bernd, On 2012.01.03 18:48, Bernd Blaauw wrote: Your RUFUS USB formatter [ http://rufus.akeo.ie/ ] is something that might end up on an updated FreeDOS distribution. If that's the case, then I will feel obligated to ask what you guys would like to see added to Rufus, to better suit your

[Freedos-devel] Rufus/FreeDOS KB locale (was: only print suspect partition warnings if FORCELBA is not in use)

2012-01-02 Thread Pete Batard
Hi Aitor (and thanks a lot for KEYB.EXE/SYS, which I am relying on in the FreeDOS version of Rufus, and which support a whole lot more layouts than the MS-DOS equivalent), On 2011.12.31 13:32, Aitor SantamarĂ­a wrote: A little addition to Rugxulo's post, that's quite good imho, I suggest