Re: [Freedos-user] Bootable USB stick

2008-12-23 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Wouldn't it be a good idea to get a backup of the wiki in case it's gone someday? Jim Hall schrieb: > On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 4:19 PM, Florian Xaver wrote: >> Hi! >> >>> Nice, but why a blog post and not a new wiki site? I think you should >>> move it. >>> > > We also have a FreeDOS Wiki now. I'

Re: [Freedos-user] Bootable USB stick

2008-12-23 Thread Jim Hall
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 4:19 PM, Florian Xaver wrote: > Hi! > >> Nice, but why a blog post and not a new wiki site? I think you should >> move it. >> We also have a FreeDOS Wiki now. I'm currently posting a bunch of HOWTOs and mini HOWTOs from the FD-DOC Wiki, then FD-DOC will mostly go away. Fe

Re: [Freedos-user] Bootable USB stick

2008-12-20 Thread Florian Xaver
Hi! > Nice, but why a blog post and not a new wiki site? I think you should > move it. > > By the way we have already a similar page > http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0503736/php/drdoswiki/index.php?n=Main.USB > merge it? Didn't you know that great page? :) Yes, I will do it in some days. > If yo

Re: [Freedos-user] Bootable USB stick

2008-12-20 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Hi! :) Nice, but why a blog post and not a new wiki site? I think you should move it. By the way we have already a similar page http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0503736/php/drdoswiki/index.php?n=Main.USB merge it? Didn't you know that great page? :) The syslinux method is imho a bit complicated, I

[Freedos-user] Bootable USB stick

2008-12-20 Thread Florian Xaver
Hi, I fought some hours with a new USB stick to make it bootable in DOS. I decided to share my experience and wrote following article: http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0503736/php/drdoswiki/index.php?n=Blog.2007-12-20-ArticleBootableUSBsticks (you can edit it - just click EDIT and use "gast" as nam

Re: [Freedos-user] bootable USB stick

2007-04-30 Thread kd4d
Hi again, Jim: If your computer has the right BIOS support, there is a MS-DOS centric "cookbook" for doing this at: http://www.pvrc.org/Newsletters/feb05.pdf If I were writing this again, I'd have you boot dos and do the "SYS C:" or whatever FIRST to make sure that the BIOS support works before

Re: [Freedos-user] bootable USB stick

2007-04-30 Thread kd4d
Jim: AFAIK, there are at least three different ways to install FreeDOS on a USB stick. Unfortunately, the BIOSs and USB sticks differ somewhat and I haven't found a way that works all the time. The easiest way, if you have the "proper" BIOS support, is to plug in the USB stick, turn on the compu

[Freedos-user] bootable USB stick

2007-04-30 Thread Jim Lemon
Hi folks, After using FreeDOS for some years to run a battery of human performance tests, I am running out of tricks keeping up with PC design. In order to run the tests on PCs without a VFAT partition, I now boot off a CD-ROM and write data to a diskette. Unfortunately, hardly any PCs these da