Is there an ISO yet of FDI/FD 1.2preX? Forgot that M6805 has a broken BIOS
wrt to USB boot.
On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 8:07 PM, Rugxulo <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 5:58 PM, Jerome Shidel <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hello Eric and all,
> >
> > A little more follow up on the USB stick test.
> >
> > The same user who was testing, per my suggestion ran it in advanced mode
> to override
> > the automatic D: drive as the install target. He said the install ran
> flawlessly when he
> > set it to C:\FDOS.
> >
> > He did say that he had an issue booting it. And basically, it seems to
> be issues with the
> > FDCONFIG paths. So, I will have to see if I can get FreeDOS to boot and
> load drivers from
> > an unknown drive letter. FDI doesn't care what drive it is running on.
> The wrong target
> > issue was an assumption I made and will fix.
>
> Just remove all mentions of absolute drive letters (in FDCONFIG.SYS)
> entirely. It should still work. "DEVICE=\FDOS\HIMEMX.EXE" That's what
> I did with my MetaDOS floppy image, and it works (once extracted) atop
> (RUFUS-made) USB as "C:" or floppy as "A:".
>
> > It appears that if I get the booting from G or L or X .... to work, a
> USB stick installer may be viable.
>
> Not all USB sticks are bootable, but most are. Plus, old machines
> (like my P4) need help (e.g. PLoP boot manager first, which makes it
> read-only, which isn't ideal but far better than nothing). We always
> have third-party things like RUFUS or UNetBootIn, too.
>
>
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