Connect a USB drive to the computer and select it in the Device box. Check 'Create a bootable disk using' checkbox and select MS-DOS or FreeDOS. Click the Start button. How to Create Bootable LIVE FreeDOS USB Drive Posted on July 25, 2017 Author Trisha 1 Comment In the past we have posted about how you can create a bootable FreeDOS USB drive that can be used to install FreeDOS on any computer.
Technically you cannot burn an image to a USB stick however what you can do is extract the files from the image and copy them to a bootable USB drive.Doing this is very simple. There are a number of different free programs you can use to do it.
On windows there are lots of free programs available to download to burn to a CD however fewer allow you to write an image to a usb stick.
Below I will explain how to create a bootable USB drive:
Windows
http://rufus.akeo.ie/
This is my favorite program for this task as it has lots of options and does not require installation.
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When you start up Rufus any pen drives you have plugged in to the computer should automatically appear in the Device box at the top. You can plug in a USB stick and it will find it after a couple of seconds-without you having to restart the program.
■ Leave the second box as it is and chnage the third one to NTFS.
■ Leave the cluster size as default and change the volume label to whatever you want to call it.
■ After you have done that make sure the check-box saying 'Create a bootable disk using:' is checked and select ISO Image. Then click the little button on the right of it to choose your ISO image.
■ If you want to see what's happening during the process click the log button at the bottom.
■ Now you can click Start and hopefully your USB drive should be formatted and the ISO should be extracted to it.
Here are some other programs you can use:
http://www.isotousb.com/
http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/Universal-Extractor-Download-56951.html
This is just for extracting the ISO. You will need to format the drive as well.
Linux
In Linux you can use the dd command to create a bootable usb drive:
*Make sure you replace sdb with whatever node your usb drive is*
In some Linux operating systems there is a program called Startup Disk Creator which you can use to create a bootable USB flash drive however I will not add any instructions as it is very straight forward to use.
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OSX
On a mac you can create a bootable USB drive from the command line also using the dd command.
First, in a terminal window, you will need to convert the iso file to an img file using hdiutil
like so:
You can find out the usb drive name by running before you plug it in and then running it again after you plug it in and see what has changed.
*Make sure you replace disk1 with whatever your usb drive is e.g. disk2 or disk3 etc*
Then you can run the dd command:
When this is done you can unmount the disk with:
In relation with this question, I am trying to get some files onto the hard disk of a freedos-only computer without a CD/DVD reader.
Networking seems not to be easy under freedos, so I turned to USB sticks: but even then, the USB stick does not seem to be mounted on any of the DOS disks (tried A: till H: and Z:), and I cannot find a
mount
utility. Can freedos access usb mass storage?Community♦
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One method that makes USB media visible to FreeDOS 1.1 is to setup the BIOS and boot environment before the system is booted into a session than needs access to the USB media.
- Make sure that the system BIOS is set to support USB mass storage. For example, in one AMI BIOS, the setting is:Advanced | USB Configuration | USB Storage Device Support | EnabledNot all BIOS have a setting like this. For instance, at least one AMI Aptio 4.x BIOS worked with does not have such an option (and USB access is still possible).
- As needed, set the system BIOS to allow the user to access the BIOS Boot Selection menu. This is usually enabled by default, but could be disabled. How to do this is BIOS dependent, but two BIOS examples are:AMI (old)Security | Boot Sel. Popup Menu Access | AnybodyAMI Aptio 4.xBoot | Enable Popup Boot Menu | Yes
- Plug the USB media into the system prior to booting it.
- Use the BIOS Boot Selection menu to boot the system - this DOES NOT mean that the USB media is booted or even that it is bootable.If the USB media IS NOT shown on the BIOS Boot Selection menu, it may be necessary to check BIOS settings or power cycle the system. On several systems I have, if the media is not shown in the BIOS Boot Selection menu, it will not be visible to FreeDOS after the system boots.
AUTOEXEC.BAT and FDCONFIG.SYS may affect usability, but experience shows that the files installed by default work out-of-the-box.
This solution is not touted to be the only way to access USB media, but it is one proven to be useful on a number of embedded systems.
The 'fdapm poweroff' command, among others, may be used to shutdown the system 'safely' by flushing the disk handlers.
On FreeDOS 1.1, and when using the JEMMEX memory manager, memory exceptions seem to occur if lbacache.com was used to buffer access to the drive. As the lbacache.com utility is not installed by the default FDCONFIG.SYS or AUTOEXEC.BAT files, this is not normally an issue. (It is possible to use lbacache.com without buffering access to the USB media.)
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Go to this link and read item 3.10 about why you can't access any other drive in Freedos:
The FreeDOS kernel (even as late as build 2017f) still contains the bug for 512MB disks. Do not use this kernel if you plan to access - even read - a disk partition bigger than 512MB. If you do, you will find that your drive is corrupt, and you will need to reformat and re-install your software. This is a well-known bug with large hard disks, advertised on the FreeDOS sites since Aug 12 1998.
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