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> requires about half as many diskettes Can a USB floppy disk drive be used with FreeDOS?
by Koshkin 5y ago
> requires about half as many diskettes
Can a USB floppy disk drive be used with FreeDOS?
- mrlemke 5y agoFor install? Probably. I used a USB floppy to transfer files, but it did have to be connected at boot. Obviously, not a problem for installation.
- lproven 5y agoThis is not a canonical answer, because this question isn't amenable to a simple yes/no answer. If you booted from the hard disk: no, but there are USB drivers for DOS you could load. Some BIOSes support USB floppy drives and can fake them being DOS ones. So, on some machines, yes. If you booted from a USB device: some (many?) BIOSes enable USB emulation via BIOS calls for all USB devices connected when the PC was booted from a DOS device. So in that case, yes. Best answer I can give: maybe -- try it.
- snvzz 5y agoFor install purposes, I'd recommend using memdisk to boot and then relying on etherdfs to access the install hdd image.