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FreeDOS USB SUPPORT
From
Rodneyg@VERT/EOTLBBS to
HusTler on Monday, May 29, 2023 15:49:24
Re: FreeDOS USB SUPPORT
By: HusTler to basschestra on Sun Oct 25 2020 08:05:23
> Re: FreeDOS USB SUPPORT
I believe you're right.....DOS supports CD Drives but does not support USB
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hollowone@VERT/BEERS20 to
Rodneyg on Monday, June 05, 2023 13:10:00
Ro> I believe you're right.....DOS supports CD Drives but does not support
Ro> USB ---
There are DOS drivers for USB devices. Quick search to get this:
http://www.georgpotthast.de/usb/
Have you tried it?
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From
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hollowone on Tuesday, June 06, 2023 17:55:00
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Ro> I believe you're right.....DOS supports CD Drives but does not support
Ro> USB ---
ho> There are DOS drivers for USB devices. Quick search to get this:
ho>
http://www.georgpotthast.de/usb/
ho> Have you tried it?
In case it would be useful, there's also
https://gitlab.com/FreeDOS/drivers/usbdos/
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From
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Rodneyg on Friday, June 16, 2023 10:37:35
Re: FreeDOS USB SUPPORT
By: Rodneyg to HusTler on Mon May 29 2023 15:49:24
>> Re: FreeDOS USB SUPPORT
> I believe you're right.....DOS supports CD Drives but does not support USB
AFAIK, Recent versions of FreeDOS should support a USB drive formatted as FAT/FAT32. Should show up as long as it's plugged in before booting. Not sure if there's a way to hot mount though, been a while.
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From
Woodoochild@VERT/DMINE to
hollowone on Friday, June 16, 2023 21:15:04
Re: Re: FreeDOS USB SUPPORT
By: hollowone to Rodneyg on Mon Jun 05 2023 01:10 pm
> Ro> I believe you're right.....DOS supports CD Drives but does not support
> Ro> USB ---
>
> There are DOS drivers for USB devices. Quick search to get this:
>
http://www.georgpotthast.de/usb/
>
> Have you tried it?
Hello,
I will check this link! Thank you. :0)
I've been trying to get this thing to work for a few days now, I've reassembled
and old machine running MSDOS 6.22. I'm using it also to browse BBS b the way.
It's a lot of fun! :0) But do we need a US stick formatted specifically for
MSDOS? That seems logical. Because so far, I haven't managed to get my USB
stick recognized. What's more, MSDOS can only read partitions up to 2GB, unless
I'm mistaken.
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From
Dr. What@VERT/THEGATEB to
Tracker1 on Saturday, June 17, 2023 08:36:00
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Tr> AFAIK, Recent versions of FreeDOS should support a USB drive formatted
Tr> as FAT/FAT32. Should show up as long as it's plugged in before booting.
Tr> Not sure if there's a way to hot mount though, been a while.
The only way I've gotten this to work is:
1. Power off the PC.
2. Plug in the USB drive.
3. Power on the PC.
4. Mine has a power on menu that you can get in to and I have to tell it to
boot from the hard drive - NOT the USB drive.
5. FreeDOS boots up normally.
6. Now, my USB drive is on D: (and E: and F: if you have multiple partitions).
Of course, to remove the USB drive, you need to power off the computer.
I don't believe FreeDOS supports hot mounting of USB drives.
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From
Tracker1@VERT/TRN to
Woodoochild on Wednesday, June 21, 2023 23:09:34
Re: Re: FreeDOS USB SUPPORT
By: Woodoochild to hollowone on Fri Jun 16 2023 21:15:04
Wo> I've been trying to get this thing to work for a few days now, I've
Wo> reassembled and old machine running MSDOS 6.22. I'm using it also to
Wo> browse BBS b the way. It's a lot of fun! :0) But do we need a US stick
Wo> formatted specifically for MSDOS? That seems logical. Because so far, I
Wo> haven't managed to get my USB stick recognized. What's more, MSDOS can
Wo> only read partitions up to 2GB, unless I'm mistaken.
Your best bet is really FreeDOS, not MS-DOS if you want to run DOS on more modern hardware.
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esc@VERT/MONTEREY to
Tracker1 on Thursday, June 22, 2023 01:00:00
Tr> Your best bet is really FreeDOS, not MS-DOS if you want to run DOS on
Tr> more modern hardware.
I've had some luck recently using MS-DOS 7.1. FreeDOS does have some game compatibility issues (relatively few, FWIW) which makes me still prefer MS-DOS. That said, MS-DOS 7.1 can be yanked out of Win98SE install media, and it's basically MS-DOS 6.22 with a few extras, in particular FAT32 support.
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From
paulie420@VERT/BEERS20 to
Tracker1 on Thursday, June 22, 2023 07:41:00
Tr> Wo> :0) But do we need a US stickc
Tr> Wo> formatted specifically for MSDOS? That seems logical. Because so far,
Tr> Wo> haven't managed to get my USB stick recognized. What's more, MSDOS ca
Tr> Wo> only read partitions up to 2GB, unless I'm mistaken.
You need a FAT16 partition. Also, to use USB you'll need a driver or bump up to FreeDOS, I *think* it has a driver.
If you can't find one, I know theres a DOS USB driver @ 2oFB... search function is your friend. Its in the LocalZzZ first File Conference.
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From
Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to
esc on Thursday, June 22, 2023 14:18:03
Re: Re: FreeDOS USB SUPPORT
By: esc to Tracker1 on Thu Jun 22 2023 01:00 am
es> I've had some luck recently using MS-DOS 7.1. FreeDOS does have some game
What exactly is MS-DOS 7.1? The last official standalone release Microsoft made of MS-DOS was 6.22. Would 7.1 be the DOS layer included with Windows 98 or something?
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From
Moondog@VERT/CAVEBBS to
Tracker1 on Thursday, June 22, 2023 17:50:00
Re: Re: FreeDOS USB SUPPORT
By: Tracker1 to Woodoochild on Wed Jun 21 2023 11:09 pm
> Re: Re: FreeDOS USB SUPPORT
> By: Woodoochild to hollowone on Fri Jun 16 2023 21:15:04
>
> Wo> I've been trying to get this thing to work for a few days now, I've
> Wo> reassembled and old machine running MSDOS 6.22. I'm using it also to
> Wo> browse BBS b the way. It's a lot of fun! :0) But do we need a US stick
> Wo> formatted specifically for MSDOS? That seems logical. Because so far, I
> Wo> haven't managed to get my USB stick recognized. What's more, MSDOS can
> Wo> only read partitions up to 2GB, unless I'm mistaken.
>
> Your best bet is really FreeDOS, not MS-DOS if you want to run DOS on more m
>
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IIRC FreeDOS will suport usb hard drives. Not sure about usb sticks
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From
esc@VERT/MONTEREY to
Nightfox on Thursday, June 22, 2023 17:21:00
Ni> What exactly is MS-DOS 7.1? The last official standalone release
Ni> Microsoft made of MS-DOS was 6.22. Would 7.1 be the DOS layer included
Ni> with Windows 98 or something?
Yep, that's exactly it! Go on youtube and look up philscomputerlab dos 7.1 and you can see how to extract and install it.
It's 100% compatible with everything except utilities that expect FAT16. So, all games and stuff are totally fine.
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From
Gamgee@VERT/PALANTIR to
Nightfox on Thursday, June 22, 2023 19:13:00
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es> I've had some luck recently using MS-DOS 7.1. FreeDOS does have some game
Ni> What exactly is MS-DOS 7.1? The last official standalone release
Ni> Microsoft made of MS-DOS was 6.22. Would 7.1 be the DOS layer
Ni> included with Windows 98 or something?
He said right in the post that you're replying to (but you snipped it
out), that it is part of the Win98 install media....
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From
MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to
Nightfox on Friday, June 23, 2023 10:14:26
Re: Re: FreeDOS USB SUPPORT
By: Nightfox to esc on Thu Jun 22 2023 02:18 pm
> Re: Re: FreeDOS USB SUPPORT
> By: esc to Tracker1 on Thu Jun 22 2023 01:00 am
>
> es> I've had some luck recently using MS-DOS 7.1. FreeDOS does have some
> es> game
>
> What exactly is MS-DOS 7.1? The last official standalone release
>
> Microsoft
> made of MS-DOS was 6.22. Would 7.1 be the DOS layer included with Windows
> 98 or something?
you can make a boot disk and make sure it has format and fdisk on it.
format with /s and it will be dos 7
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From
Moondog@VERT/CAVEBBS to
Nightfox on Friday, June 23, 2023 14:15:00
Re: Re: FreeDOS USB SUPPORT
By: Nightfox to esc on Thu Jun 22 2023 02:18 pm
> Re: Re: FreeDOS USB SUPPORT
> By: esc to Tracker1 on Thu Jun 22 2023 01:00 am
>
> es> I've had some luck recently using MS-DOS 7.1. FreeDOS does have some ga
>
> What exactly is MS-DOS 7.1? The last official standalone release Microsoft
>
> Nightfox
>
7.1 is the underlying DOS in Win9x systems
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From
Moondog@VERT/CAVEBBS to
MRO on Saturday, June 24, 2023 09:03:00
Re: Re: FreeDOS USB SUPPORT
By: MRO to Nightfox on Fri Jun 23 2023 10:14 am
> Re: Re: FreeDOS USB SUPPORT
> By: Nightfox to esc on Thu Jun 22 2023 02:18 pm
>
> > Re: Re: FreeDOS USB SUPPORT
> > By: esc to Tracker1 on Thu Jun 22 2023 01:00 am
> >
> > es> I've had some luck recently using MS-DOS 7.1. FreeDOS does have some
> > es> game
> >
> > What exactly is MS-DOS 7.1? The last official standalone release
> >
> > Microsoft
> > made of MS-DOS was 6.22. Would 7.1 be the DOS layer included with Window
> > 98 or something?
>
> you can make a boot disk and make sure it has format and fdisk on it.
> format with /s and it will be dos 7
>
The win98 boot disk has those utilities
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From
MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to
Moondog on Sunday, June 25, 2023 03:39:19
Re: Re: FreeDOS USB SUPPORT
By: Moondog to MRO on Sat Jun 24 2023 09:03 am
>
> > you can make a boot disk and make sure it has format and fdisk on it.
> > format with /s and it will be dos 7
>
> The win98 boot disk has those utilities
yeah i've done it hundreds of times.
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From
Dumas Walker@VERT/CAPCITY2 to
MOONDOG on Monday, June 26, 2023 16:06:00
> > > you can make a boot disk and make sure it has format and fdisk on it.
> > > format with /s and it will be dos 7
> >
> > The win98 boot disk has those utilities
Some of the utilities that came with prior versions of DOS were no longer
available with the DOS 7.x versions that ran under Win9x.
Many of them were replaced with Windows utilities, which doesn't help if
you are trying to run a DOS 7.x system without Windows.
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From
Woodoochild@VERT/DMINE to
Tracker1 on Tuesday, June 27, 2023 04:44:11
Re: Re: FreeDOS USB SUPPORT
By: Tracker1 to Woodoochild on Wed Jun 21 2023 11:09 pm
> Re: Re: FreeDOS USB SUPPORT
> By: Woodoochild to hollowone on Fri Jun 16 2023 21:15:04
>
> Wo> I've been trying to get this thing to work for a few days now, I've
> Wo> reassembled and old machine running MSDOS 6.22. I'm using it also to
> Wo> browse BBS b the way. It's a lot of fun! :0) But do we need a US stick
> Wo> formatted specifically for MSDOS? That seems logical. Because so far, I
> Wo> haven't managed to get my USB stick recognized. What's more, MSDOS can
> Wo> only read partitions up to 2GB, unless I'm mistaken.
>
> Your best bet is really FreeDOS, not MS-DOS if you want to run DOS on more m
I had already explored FREEDOS once a few years ago. I'll probably install it
on another hard disk to see what FREEDOS can do for me. On MSDOS, it's version
6.22, and it's mainly for playing games and launching a few applications. And
so the USB would be used to transfer large files. And also to say me: "ok, I
managed to get the USB support workingunder MSDOS. Because finally I found it
simpler to create a local FTP and retrieve files that way on my MSDOS machine.
Anyway, thanks for the tip! :0)
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From
Woodoochild@VERT/DMINE to
paulie420 on Tuesday, June 27, 2023 04:50:11
Re: Re: FreeDOS USB SUPPORT
By: paulie420 to Tracker1 on Thu Jun 22 2023 07:41 am
> Tr> Wo> :0) But do we need a US stickc
> Tr> Wo> formatted specifically for MSDOS? That seems logical. Because so f
> Tr> Wo> haven't managed to get my USB stick recognized. What's more, MSDOS
> Tr> Wo> only read partitions up to 2GB, unless I'm mistaken.
>
> You need a FAT16 partition. Also, to use USB you'll need a driver or bump up
>
> If you can't find one, I know theres a DOS USB driver @ 2oFB... search funct
>
>
>
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Thank you so much! Very useful. I will check all this. soon!
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From
Woodoochild@VERT/DMINE to
Moondog on Tuesday, June 27, 2023 04:52:05
Re: Re: FreeDOS USB SUPPORT
By: Moondog to Tracker1 on Thu Jun 22 2023 05:50 pm
> Re: Re: FreeDOS USB SUPPORT
> By: Tracker1 to Woodoochild on Wed Jun 21 2023 11:09 pm
>
> > Re: Re: FreeDOS USB SUPPORT
> > By: Woodoochild to hollowone on Fri Jun 16 2023 21:15:04
> >
> > Wo> I've been trying to get this thing to work for a few days now, I've
> > Wo> reassembled and old machine running MSDOS 6.22. I'm using it also to
> > Wo> browse BBS b the way. It's a lot of fun! :0) But do we need a US sti
> > Wo> formatted specifically for MSDOS? That seems logical. Because so far
> > Wo> haven't managed to get my USB stick recognized. What's more, MSDOS c
> > Wo> only read partitions up to 2GB, unless I'm mistaken.
> >
> > Your best bet is really FreeDOS, not MS-DOS if you want to run DOS on mor
> >
> >
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> IIRC FreeDOS will suport usb hard drives. Not sure about usb sticks
>
Thanks for d‚tails
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