Booting from built-in card readers is less predictable than USB flash drives. Toshiba netbooks seem to be able to boot from anything, including their built-in SD card readers. My months-old System76 Linux laptop doesn't offer its SD reader as a boot option at all. A friend of mine has a basic USB SD card reader that shows up as a boot option when there's an SD card in it. A lot of desktop machines don't offer options to boot from card readers. I guess they figure people will use their optical drives for booting. Looking forward to next week! On 03/05/2014 10:56 AM, Timothy Wegner wrote:
Yes, I will also try an SD card. I think it works pretty much the same, though it might be harder to boot from on older machines. The Sandisk Cruzer Fit shows up as a hard drive on the bios boot menu. I will try and let you know. Starting to get really busy around here through the weekend, so probably next week at soonest.
On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 1:23 PM, david wrote:
On 03/05/2014 05:16 AM, Timothy Wegner wrote:
Hi David,
Turned out that even though FreeDOS worked on one of my computers with no modifications, I did need to add some memory management in config.sys for other computers. I also found a few other things that I probably knew once and had forgotten, such as makefcfg is missing a DPMI management library compiled-in, but this is easily remedied.
The FreeDOS OS and all the tools are open source and free, so I will be able to put together a package that will work. I can't promise a delivery time (we never promised anything when we were developing Fractint :-)) but I don't think it will take long.
If anyone wants to try this, order some Sandisk Cruzer fit 8gb (maybe 16 gb works also) USB drives. They are pretty cheap.
Sounds good! Another possibility would be to see if it would work on an SD card; a lot of netbooks and ultrabooks have built-in SD card readers can boot from them.
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