[Trlog] Any interest in Bootable MS-DOS CD's?

[R. Kline]

Hi Mark,

I've been following everything about TR, DOS, thumb drives, etc., all with
great interest.  My computer has only USB 1.1 available through the BIOS,
and attempts to make a bootable thumb drive have so far failed because the
utility for doing this (mentioned on the TR reflector) apparently only works
with USB 2.0.  As a consequence, I've only been able to access the thumb
drive after booting through another means. So far, this has only been
possible by booting through XP.  I have one more thing that I want to try to
overcome this, but most probably, I won't be able to boot the thumb drive
for the reasons mentioned.

Therefore, I'm VERY interested in being able to boot into DOS from the CD
drive. Then, hopefully, I could access the thumb drive and run TR having
plenty of room for the log, etc. My thumb drive is a Sony 256 MB
"Microvault". My computer's  BIOS offers the option of booting through the
CD drive, and I have this as the first choice in the "boot order".
According to the instructions with the thumb drive, it is formatted so that
it is compatible with Windows 98, so if a bootable CD has the DOS version
for Windows 98, everything should work out fine.

Consequently, I would like to try and make a bootable CD that would be
compatible with the above described requirements.

73,
Riki, K7NJ - 4X4NJ


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Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 7:49 AM
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Subject: [Trlog] Any interest in Bootable MS-DOS CD's?


Good day, all:

As part of my efforts to learn how to dual-boot DOS and Windows
XP, I have figured out how to create bootable DOS CD's under
Windows.

This would be necessary to install DOS on a computer without
a floppy drive, for instance.  You could also load DOS and either
CT or TR on the CD and run the whole contest.  The difficulty here
is finding somewhere to write the log file other than memory.
A USB stick might work, or a hard disk partition of a type other
than NTFS.  There are two different variants:  one also loads
a CD driver and can have hundreds of MegaBytes of read-only
files;  the other is restricted to 1.44 (or 2.88 MBytes) but
doesn't require loading the CD-ROM drivers.  This frees up more
low memory and improves performance.

This would also be great for demonstrations or testing of
different configurations.

I can write up the procedure if there is any interest and a
volunteer or two to be the guinea pig.  Let me know.

Thanks and 73,

Mark, KD4D
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