![]() Possibly because the disk/MBR layout of a fixed drive and a floppy must differ…? In any case, I was never able to make a bootable partition that way.Īt this point I feel like I need to stress : this is not a sensible project. Use UNetBootin or dd or some other image burner to transfer a bootable disk image from AllBootDisks to USB : this probably does work, but not with CF-to-IDE adapters in my experience.Use Rufus to make a boot USB device : that only works if you want FreeDOS (and it does work great for that), because Rufus is unable to make a MS-DOS 6 boot disk, as acknowledged by its author.The options I saw just Googling variations of “ install ms-dos to usb” (since on the modern PC, the CF card is connected via USB) were as follows : And it turns out installing MS-DOS without a FDD can be a tricky thing! I did not, however, have a floppy disk drive nor a CD-ROM drive. This week I was at point where I had everything to get started : a motherboard and CPU, graphics card, IDE hard drive, power supply, and a Compact Flash to IDE adapter with a 2Gb CF card. ![]() My endgoal is to reproduce the PC setup I had as a kid MS-DOS 6.22, QuickBasic 4.5, a bunch of DOS games and ANSI art demos. ![]() ![]() I’m currently building a 486 “retro” PC for fun, out of parts sourced from a combination of my dad having it lying around in the basement, eBay, and generous friends. ![]() A guide for a very specific problem, but hey, I had trouble doing it and pieced out the solution from a bunch of sources and advice, so here’s a distillation of that. ![]()
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