Re: [Freedos-user] Is anyone installed FreeDOS from USB CD drive or other USB device?

[Christian I. <chr...@gm...>]

Hi

yes I have built an usb stick with FreeDOS ISO to install. I work with
GNU/Linux and I have prepared the stick with one partition

fdisk /dev/sdX

and formated the stick with FAT32:

mkfs.vfat -F 32 -n freedos /dev/sdX1

The letter X stands for your real path, probably it's /dev/sdb for the
device and /dev/sdb1 for the partition. But yours can be different.

Than I followed these steps:

1. I downloaded latest Grub4DOS from: http://sourceforge.net/projects/grub4dos/

2. I unpacked the following files to the root directory of the usb stick:

    config.sys
    grldr
    grub.exe
    menu.lst

3. Than I copied fd11src.iso to the same location.

4. I edited the menu.lst:

#######

title FreeDOS
map (hd0,0)/fd11src.iso (hd32)
map --hook
root (hd32)
chainloader (hd32)
boot

########

5. Under Gnu/Linux you can test the stick with Qemu:

     qemu -m 512 /dev/sdX

   Or you can plug the stick into your computer now to boot the FreeDOS CD

6. Wait until Grub4Dos is loaded.

7. From the Grub4DOS menu choose "FreeDOS"

8. Next choose "Create Drive C:" from the FreeDOS menu.

9.  Than select "2. Set active partition"

10. Instead of your USB stick choose the hard disk as your active partion.

Now you can proceed with FreeDOS installation.

Hope that will help you.

Regards
Christian









2014-08-24 3:27 GMT+02:00 DOSforever <dos...@12...>:
> first all, I'm not good at english. I don't know if I expressed correctly.
>
> I burned fd11src.iso file to CD, insert the CD to USB CD drive, boot from
> the external USB CD drive. but after FDISK list my existing partiton table,
> the SETUP show the fellowing message:
>
> SETUP wasn't able to locate any disks to install FreeDOS 1.1 from.
>
> If I write image file to flash memory, the same phenomenon also appears.
>
> I built the same partition table structure in virtual machine, boot from
> VM's IDE CD-ROM, no problem.
>
> I don't know wether the problem is caused by USB interface?
>
>
>
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