Hi, On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 1:24 PM, JAYDEN CHARBONNEAU <[email protected]> wrote: > > I use the full installation to copy the files I need.
Physical install? From atop USB jump drive? > I went through the ISO file,but I couldn't find the files needed for the > format /s command, "/s" just means "system", which is optional (so you can do it manually). So that's (IIRC) just copying kernel.sys and command.com , which is bare minimum. The actual boot sector itself has to be calculated by sys.com (which can save boot sector to file, if needed). fdisk.exe is what creates partitions and adjusts the MBR. format.exe is to make the FAT readable / usable. In other words, it's not just raw files that can be copied (due to drive geometry differences), so there still needs to be some proper installation "work". > as I am trying to install FreeDOS on my laptop,which has no rom drive. You mean optical drive? CD/DVD? I'm assuming that you also don't have a floppy drive. (You can probably buy USB-compatible replacements for those drives, though.) USB jump drive is probably your best bet. Although you can "probably" use Eric's sys-freedos-linux (Perl?) script, if direly desired. > As for a VM, I don't like emulated things. Things like V86 mode and NTVDM were extremely common. Every single 386 clone supported it. It's not really "emulation" since it's hardware supported. Most of us here used those to death in ye olde days. AMD64 broke that (more or less), so we need (harder to find) VT-X. I admit that VMs aren't bug-free nor super fast (sometimes), but they are very easy to use and manage, and certainly it's better than nothing! It's just probably very hard work for VMs to support a billion cpu modes and peripherals (and OSes and other features). > I want a plain straight up DOS computer.(That and > emulators don't always do what the real thing would do). If you have the luxury of not using an emulator, great. If you know how to set it up and know what you're doing, then go ahead. But keep in mind that even that isn't well-supported or recommended by many people. They just don't care. So sometimes, whether for convenience or due to circumstances beyond your control, a VM ain't too shabby. It's probably not ideal, but the days of expecting everyone to natively install DOS are long gone (ever since XP [NT] become widespread). > I'm just not an > emulator fan.I mean,for things like Sega Genisis,yeah.Emulators are better > than the actual console.But for things such as computers,I prefer a real > computer with a real operating system,not a window with rewired keys.But > thanks for the link,it helped me sort a little problem. :p Emulators also have the advantage of "standard" hardware components, so you don't have to struggle (or do without) some things, e.g. networking, which is always a huge hassle and not widely supported in "native" DOS. I'm not saying only use one or the other exclusively, just saying, sometimes it's easier to not do things the old-fashioned way. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
