If you need to find out what your BIOS provides, check rayer's tool [0].

[0] http://rayer.g6.cz/programm/programe.htm

On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 2:37 PM, Louis Santillan <[email protected]> wrote:
> I don't believe FD1.1 supports what you're looking for.  You need your
> BIOS to support special "USB HDD as DOS drive emulation" or maybe you
> can read up on this FreeDOS USB technote [0].  Some vintage BIOSes
> only had EDD 1.1 [1].  If you were lucky you had EDD 3.0 [2].
> Apparently, there was even a 4.0 spec produced [3].  I'm not sure what
> level of support the kernel, fdisk, and sys have but they do have some
> since FAT32 was integrated.  Try it and see if you get lucky.
>
> [0] http://www.freedos.org/technotes/newsitem/149.html
> [1] http://www-pc.uni-regensburg.de/hardware/TECHDOK/ATA_EDD_11.PDF
> [2] http://www.singlix.net/specs/specsedd30.pdf
> [3] 
> http://www.t13.org/documents/UploadedDocuments/docs2008/e08134r1-BIOS_Enhanced_Disk_Drive_Services_4.0.pdf
>
> On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 2:20 PM, JAYDEN CHARBONNEAU
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Didn't work.If I boot from my installation CD on my desktop,would I be able
>> to install everything to a plugged in external harddrive instead of my
>> internal harddrive?
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 4:53 PM, Rugxulo <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 3:49 PM, JAYDEN CHARBONNEAU
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > It stated this exact error: This version of rufus only supports bootable
>>> > ISOs based on bootmgr,EFI,Grub4DOS,GRUB 1,isolinux or winpe.This ISO
>>> > does
>>> > not use either...
>>> > Then it exits.
>>>
>>> Well, try UNetBootIn instead. (Although you should probably email the
>>> RUFUS dude as well, esp. since his website still lists [at the bottom]
>>> FreeDOS as working correctly.)
>>>
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