Using downloaded files

Diskette images need to be written to a diskette. If you attempt to copy a file to a disk with identical size, the copy process will fail. Please use a program that can write disk image files to a medium instead.

Diskette image programs:

• WinImage 8.00 (shareware, runs on any Windows compatible operating system)=]
• Rawrite (freeware, runs on DOS and Windows9x)
• Diskcopy (FreeDOS implementation, various programs named DiskCopy run on DOS)
• for additional programs see http://www.fdos.org/ripcord/rawrite/

At least a file KERNEL.SYS should appear on your created FreeDOS bootdisk, as well as a directory named FREEDOS

CD-ROM image programs:

• CDrecord (open source project, runs on DOS, Windows, Linux etc)
• K3B (Linux frontend for CDrecord?)
• ImgBurn(approve sites) (freeware, runs on Win32 compatible operating system)
• Nero (shareware, runs on Linux and any Windows compatible operating system)

The FreeDOS cdrom distribution (file fdbootcd.iso) can be written on CD-ROM, and as a CD-ROM. Only when written as a CDR-ROM, it is bootable. In that case, you should see a directory named ISOLINUX on CD-ROM. If the fdbootcd.iso file appears on CD-ROM instead of this directory, your CD-ROM is not bootable and you'll need to use a FreeDOS startup diskette (see above on how to create one) to access the files stored in the imagefile.

USB Flash Drive image programs:

• FlashBoot(approve sites) (commercial project, demo available, runs on Windows compatible operating system)
  • FlashBoot has an option Create bootable flash disk with minimal set of DOS system files/Use built-in FreeDOS
  • Also, you can create bootable USB Flash Drive from image of bootable FreeDOS diskette.

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