Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS on E:?

[<ait...@wa...>]

Hi there,

Sorry about the slight offtopic, but...

kd...@co... escribió:

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>I'm using a boot loader called "GAG" to multiboot all of my computers.
>The laptop I'm using has FreeDOS, Windows XP, and Linux installed
>now with the GAG boot loader in the MBR.  C: is the FreeDOS
>installation permanately on the laptop.  It was MS-DOS last week...
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Now that you have experience with that, is GAG able to boot any OS from 
a partition on a USB device of any kind?
I am thinking of a great deal of possibilities with my IDE/ATA=>USB 
adapter.... provided that the target OS is capable of understanding that 
it is being booted from such device... (I don't know if any of the 
Windows would be able to do that).

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>>Congratulations on getting USB stick bootable. How did you make it 
>>visible as E: in DOS ?
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>This is done automatically by the BIOS on at least two of my new
>computers.  The USB stick gets a drive letter.  One of the
>computers will only boot from it if it is a real floppy drive, the
>other offers the option to boot from USB Mass Storage.  DOS
>doesn't know that it isn't a second hard drive.  When it boots,
>DOS sees the USB stick as C:.  No DOS USB drivers are required.
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Sounds like bad news. Few available BIOSes seem to provide such a 
support for USB, at least that I know of....

Aitor