[ct-user] Successfully booted DOS from CD and ran CT from USB stick

[Ken Wolff]

kd4d at comcast.net wrote:

>Good afternoon, all:
>
>I have been successful creating a MS-DOS boot CD, containing a
>minimal MS-DOS installation, and running CT 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 CT 10.002.001 on the USB stick and fired up the CQWW.
>CW sending seems to be working.
>
>The really neat thing about this is that I can download all of the
>CT files, 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 CT files in D:\CT10 and created a log directory
>d:\logs\ct.  I put master.dta and cty.dat in the d:\logs\ct
>directory (the way I like to configure), and entered
>path=d:\ct10;%path%.
>
>Then,
>D:
>cd logs\ct
>ct
>
>and started CT.
>
>Using this technique, I can run CT 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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That is very cool. When you think all is ready, can you send me a copy, 
so I can try it on my laptop?

Thanks - Ken