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 <gnome@hawaii.rr.com> 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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