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.) >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Freedos-devel mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Freedos-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
