Hi.
I've installed FreeDOS on my PC for some reason, I can't find the letter for the USB drive. Does it support USB? Or I need to use CD Drive? I don't know. Bye,
Basschestra

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Re: FreeDOS USB SUPPORT
By: basschestra to All on Sun Oct 25 2020 01:51 am

Hi.
I've installed FreeDOS on my PC for some reason, I can't find the letter for the USB drive. Does it support USB? Or I need to use CD Drive? I don't know. Bye,
Basschestra

I don't know if DOS supports USB. I'm pretty sure it can handle a CD drive if memory serves me correctly.

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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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I believe you're right.....DOS supports CD Drives but does not support
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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I believe you're right.....DOS supports CD Drives but does not support
USB ---

There are DOS drivers for USB devices. Quick search to get this: http://www.georgpotthast.de/usb/

Have you tried it?

In case it would be useful, there's also https://gitlab.com/FreeDOS/drivers/usbdos/


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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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Re: Re: FreeDOS USB SUPPORT
By: hollowone to Rodneyg on Mon Jun 05 2023 01:10 pm

I believe you're right.....DOS supports CD Drives but does not support 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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Tracker1 wrote to Rodneyg <=-

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.

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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Re: Re: FreeDOS USB SUPPORT
By: Woodoochild to hollowone on Fri Jun 16 2023 21:15:04

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.

Your best bet is really FreeDOS, not MS-DOS if you want to run DOS on more modern hardware.


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Your best bet is really FreeDOS, not MS-DOS if you want to run DOS on
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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:0) But do we need a US stickc
formatted specifically for MSDOS? That seems logical. Because so far, haven't managed to get my USB stick recognized. What's more, MSDOS ca 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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Re: Re: FreeDOS USB SUPPORT
By: esc to Tracker1 on Thu Jun 22 2023 01:00 am

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?

Nightfox

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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

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.

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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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?

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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Nightfox wrote to esc <=-

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?

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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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

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?

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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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

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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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

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 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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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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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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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

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.

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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Re: Re: FreeDOS USB SUPPORT
By: paulie420 to Tracker1 on Thu Jun 22 2023 07:41 am

:0) But do we need a US stickc
formatted specifically for MSDOS? That seems logical. Because so f haven't managed to get my USB stick recognized. What's more, MSDOS 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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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

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 sti formatted specifically for MSDOS? That seems logical. Because so far haven't managed to get my USB stick recognized. What's more, MSDOS c 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
Regards,
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