Re: OT: FreeDOS work on own?
Hello,
When I wanted to flash the bios on my system I needed a dos bootdisk.
I discovered:
http://www.bootdisk.com
There are numerous bootdisks available there. You'll find a DRDOS 7.x
disk that should do what you want.
Hope this helps.
Jimmie Houchin
Jonathan Gift wrote:
>
> albi wrote:
> >
> > > I have an old 286/386 notebook that's not much good and since I can't
> > > load Linux on it, I need to put DOS. Anyone got a DOS boot disk I can
> > > transnfer the OS over with? Or can I use FreeDOS, and if so, how?
> >
> >
> > i don't quite get your plan,
>
> Thanks for getting back to me.
>
> The machine has no OS and here in France I don't have access to my old
> DOS disks. What I need is just to boot in DOS, so a boot disk with
> sys.com to transfer the system, of and format.com as well.
>
> Or, a fully functional base DOS I can install on the notebook. In which
> case, is there one for free on the net I can download and slap on
> floppies?
>
> > but if you would like to run DOS on that machine,
> > i think Caldera's DOS is much more advanced than FreeDOS
>
> I just need to boot.
>
> >
> > i happen to have DR.DOS 6 and Novell DOS 7 myself,
> > and i did try Caldera's OpenDOS 7.03 and i also tried FreeDOS
> > a while ago
>
> See, I need an old MS or DR DOS...
>
> > btw, i guess you know how to make a
> > bootdisk from an downloadable image ?
>
> Using winimage, yes! Otherwise, er, instructions particular to this
> needed.
>
> Any help appreciated in getting this thing up and running. I don't need
> any of the other DOS apps. Just something to format and boot and
> trasnfer the sys file to the hard disk. I can then boot and run vim,
> getting some use out of the thing.
>
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>
> jgift@wanadoo.fr
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