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calcdude84se
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The title describes my problem. I need to access the contents of a USB flash drive, and I can't seem to find DOS drivers that work.
I need access through DOS rather than my normal operating system because I need to run a utility that is on the flash drive and can only run in DOS.
To be more specific, I have installed Slax on my flash drive and want to run it on my PC without an emulator. My computer does not have a "boot from usb" option, but Slax has a DOS program that you can use to start it.
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FloppusMaximus
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| Posted: 24 Sep 2009 06:13:20 pm Post subject: |
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| Well, how are you booting DOS? Could you put whatever stuff you need from the USB disk in the same place? |
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calcdude84se
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| Posted: 24 Sep 2009 07:29:50 pm Post subject: |
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| I'm using a floppy disk. You cannot put Slax on a floppy disk. |
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FloppusMaximus
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| Posted: 24 Sep 2009 08:10:37 pm Post subject: |
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Indeed, I imagine you can't, but you can fit Linux (including USB drivers) on a floppy disk, and I'd guess you can probably squeeze loadlin or whatever on there as well.
Or you could skip DOS entirely and use syslinux. |
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calcdude84se
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| Posted: 24 Sep 2009 08:55:04 pm Post subject: |
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Well, I got it working. I found working drivers. Now if my monitor will just display everything...
EDIT: I'll describe the problem more fully.
DOS boots, my USB drive is loaded, I go to C:\ (where my flash drive is) and cd to \boot\dos. Then I run slax (or slax.bat). It boots fine, getting to the (terminal, it doesn't automatically start X and KDE) screen. After I log in, I can run either startx or xconfig. Running startx blanks my screen and I have to hit Ctrl-Alt-Del to reboot my computer and watch it reboot. Running xconfig and then startx produces a black screen also, but with different dimensions. When I hit Ctrl-Alt-NumPlus or Ctrl-Alt-NumMinus, nothing happens. (xconfig recommended I press one a few times until I could see everything) When I hit Ctrl-Alt-Del to reboot, I don't see it shutting down.
Any ideas how to configure my monitor?
EDIT2: Since KDE takes a moment to start, I'll wait a minute or two to try the above key combos.
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calcdude84se
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| Posted: 03 Oct 2009 10:03:00 am Post subject: |
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| None of the above approaches work. I have had some success with changing the monitor almost instantaneously after I start KDE, but it goes black in a moment. I am still stuck on the monitor. Help?! |
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