"Thomas Mueller" wrote:
> Many motherboards nowadays have a single PS/2 port than can be used for a
> mouse or keyboard but not both simultaneously.
Interesting. I did not know that.
> I know that from frequenting tigerdirect.com , also motherboard
> manufacturers' websites such as asrock.com and us.msi.com .
I've written down those website names for future reference.
> I too have had USB mouse fail to work on FreeDOS.
You have my sympathy.
> Now my difficulty is getting a bootable installation of FreeDOS 1.1.
I rarely use pure DOS anymore. But when I do use it, I boot it from
a bootable 2.88MB floppy image within a cdrw disc.
IIRC, I originally created a 2.88MB image file (named 288img) with
Gilles Vollant's INJCT083.ZIP. That worked. But, IIRC, I soon ran
into problems updating that image file.
So I switched to mounting that image under Puppy Linux ("mount
288img /mnt/floppy -o loop"). Then I added, deleted, and updated
the files in that image using Midnight Commander (mc). (I assume
that RoxFiler would also work (instead of mc).)
Then I umounted that image ("umount /mnt/floppy").
Then I ran a script like this to create the iso cd image.
#!/bin/sh
mkisofs -f -v -R -D -J -no-iso-translate \
-o/mnt/sda7/smallcdimage.iso -b isolinux-debug.bin \
-c boot.cat -boot-info-table . -boot-load-size 4 -no-emul-boot
Then I burned the resulting "smallcdimage.iso" file to a cdrw disc
using a pgm named Burniso2cd (which is in Puppy's menus).
The resulting cdrw boots automatically (like any other bootable cd)
in PCs which support booting from cdrom.
Note: that process also requires an isolinux.cfg file (a small text
file) and the memdisk file (part of the isolinux suite). The
isolinux.cfg file should look something like this:
prompt 1
timeout 300
default 1
label dos
kernel memdisk
append initrd=288img
> USB stick is the only way; FreeDOS can't access SATA hard drive with GPT.
I've had much less success with booting from USB.
--
Eddie
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