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Book8088's CF2IDE stumps Freedos boot (Users)

posted by bocke, 29.01.2024, 06:02
(edited by bocke on 29.01.2024, 06:14)

> Lighter than MS-DOS 6.22?? Not sure that's possible, but I don't know what
> you mean.
>

Not full blown MS-DOS 6.22 installation. It's bloated. MS-DOS 5.0 was much lighter.

I think SvarDOS also uses a minified fork of FreeCOM so that should also help to minimize used memory, too.

> As an aside, how are you supposed to get files onto the device? A CF card
> reader on your main PC? Or does "USB (U disk only)FAT16" mean the BIOS can
> somehow handle mounting a jump drive?
I don't currently have a card reader (I had a few, but they broke - out of neglect I guess), so I'm using CF2IDE via ATA2USB. :D And it works, believe it or not (both on Windows and Linux).

As far as BIOS is concerned it uses skiselev's 8088_bios which supports XTIDE extensions (including the boot from CF cards).

> Probably SourceForge Bug
> Tracker or
> freedos-kernel
> mailing list.
Thanks. :)

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