DOS ain't dead - how create freedos 1.1.live cd

how create freedos 1.1.live cd (Users)

posted by iw2evk, Magenta (Italy), 23.07.2014, 17:14

Hi Glenn,

no, unfortunly i don't have good results

Maybe with this?

http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/ISOLINUX

from this page :

Can I boot other operating systems with ISOLINUX?

( Note: In Syslinux 4.05, the .img support has been removed from ISOLINUX. Instead, MEMDISK is suggested for this purpose.)

Starting in version 1.65, ISOLINUX supports booting disk images of other operating systems. However, this feature depends on BIOS functionality which is apparently broken in a very large number of BIOSes. Therefore, this may not work on any particular system. No direct workaround is possible; if you find that it doesn't work please complain to your vendor and indicate that "BIOS INT 13h AX=4C00h fails." Note that you can use MEMDISK as a recommended alternative; MEMDISK is not affected by this problem, but limits the size of the disk images, since it has to load them into memory.

To boot DOS, or other real-mode operating systems (protected-mode operating systems may or may not work correctly), using ISOLINUX, you need to prepare a disk image (usually a floppy image, but a hard disk image can be used on most systems) with the relevant operating system. This file should be included on the CD-ROM in the /isolinux/ (or /syslinux/) directory, and have an .img extension. The .img extension does not have to be specified on the command line, but has to be explicitly specified if used in a kernel statement in isolinux.cfg.

For a floppy image, the size of the image should be exactly one of the following:

1,222,800 bytes 1200K floppy (standard 5.25")
1,474,560 bytes 1440K floppy (standard 3.5")
2,949,120 bytes 2880K floppy (enhanced 3.5")

So, for create freedos floppy image?

I'm wondering nobody have think to a LIVE support for freedos distro cd..

Roberto

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Complete thread:

how create freedos 1.1.live cd - iw2evk, 16.07.2014, 20:33
- how create freedos 1.1.live cd - glennmcc, 16.07.2014, 22:27
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    - how create freedos 1.1.live cd - iw2evk, 23.07.2014, 17:14
- how create freedos 1.1.live cd - totalizator, 24.07.2014, 16:39