Good afternoon, all:
I have been successful creating a MS-DOS boot CD, containing a
minimal MS-DOS installation, and running TR entirely from a USB
memory stick.
I have not been able to test this in combat conditions yet, but
it is working. Any volunteers?
I installed TR679 on the USB stick and fired up the CQWW.
CW sending seems to be working. I put the all679.zip file
contents in d:\tr679.
The really neat thing about this is that I can download all of the
TR, cty.dat, and master.dta in Windows and write them to the
USB stick in Windows. Then, reboot from the CD and go.
Basically, I booted the CD, with a minimal autoexec.bat and config.sys:
autoexec.bat
path=a:\;a:\dos71
smartdrv a+ c+
config.sys
DEVICE=HIMEM.SYS /testmem:off
DEVICE=emm386.exe noems
DOS=high,umb
FILES=30
BUFFERS=20
LASTDRIVE=Z
The CD appears as a:. My USB stick happened to be D:, but yours
would probably be c:.
I put the TR files in D:\TR679 and created a log directory
d:\logs\tr. I put trmaster.dta and cty.dat in the d:\logs\tr
directory (the way I like to configure), and entered
path=d:\tr679;%path%.
Then,
D:
cd logs\tr
tr
and started TR.
Using this technique, I can run TR under pure DOS on any
computer that supports booting from CD AND has bios
recognition of a USB stick without affecting the computer AT
ALL, without repartitioning the disk, and without permanately
installing DOS.
If anyone wants the procedure for creating the bootable CD,
drop me an e-mail. I am looking for volunteers to try this in a
real contest.
73,
Mark, KD4D
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