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FreeDOS is a free DOS-compatible operating system that can be used to play games, run legacy software, or support embedded systems.

FreeDOS is a free DOS-compatible operating system that can be used to play games, run legacy software, or support embedded systems. Unlike MS-DOS, it is composed of free and open source software, licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL)

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How do I check a checkbox in DOS?

At a certain point during the installation of FreeDOS, one has to choose which optional packages to install. The packages selected by default are marked with Xs in their repective boxes. One then has to place Xs in the boxes of the unselected…
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How to install FreeDOS onto a USB flash drive?

The FreeDOS project offers a number of downloads, but all of these contain an installer that tries to install FreeDOS from an installation media onto the hard disk. Selecting the USB flash drive as installation target is not supported. Since USB…
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How to to mount other drives in FreeDOS

How can I mount in FreeDOS, if mounting other drives is even possible? If it is which types of media can be mounted and which ones can't.
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How to access the BIOS in my brand new HP Laptop with runs FreeDOS?

I've just bought a HP Laptop 255 G2 with AMD quad-core processor which runs FreeDOS and I can' access the BIOS with any command that I know (I tried F1,F2,F8,F9,F10,F12 and Del) but it didn't work! It just show me a boot menu at the start and I got…
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How can I get more low memory with the following setup:

Modules using memory below 1 MB: Name Total = Conventional + Upper Memory -------- ---------------- ---------------- ---------------- MSDOS 14 317 (14K) 14 317 (14K) 0 (0K) HIMEM 1…
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How to mount a drive in a running FreeDOS?

I'm currently using FreeDOS to load USB stick content to a virtual drive. The connected HDD won't get a drive letter, as it is simply not formatted. After that, I'm using Drive Snapshot to fill the connected HDD and to clone a partition…
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Is there a way to append files efficiently using the DOS copy command?

Using the DOS copy command syntax to concatenate files: copy file1.txt+file2.txt all.txt I know I can do this... copy file1.txt+file2.txt file1.txt Is this efficient? Is it doing what I'm expecting? It works, but I want to know is it actually…
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How to access a USB stick from FreeDOS?

In relation with this question, I am trying to get some files onto the hard disk of a freedos-only computer without a CD/DVD reader. Networking seems not to be easy under freedos, so I turned to USB sticks: but even then, the USB stick does not seem…
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Making a PXE-bootable 10MB or larger DOS image

I would like to make a "massive" DOS floppy disk image, say 10MB or more, containing all the firmware updates I need for any system, hard drive or BIOS. I do not need the DOS image to be network-able as everything will be on the PXE-booted image,…
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Setup FreeDOS in VirtualBox to access shared folder on Novell Server

Where I'm at we have an a few people still using an old program that requires dos/win98 to run, and so we still have a few windows 98 pcs scattered around. Long term I will get rid of the program, but as that's not possible right now I want to at…
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How to load FreeDOS iso from Grub2?

I'm currently loading FreeDOS iso (freedos-1.0-full.iso) from Grub4DOS, and Grub4DOS is actually first loaded from Grub2. Grub2 grub.cfg menuentry "FreeDOS 1.0" { setroot=(hd0,1) linux /grub.exe --config-file="/menus/freedos.lst" } Grub4DOS…
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upgrade BIOS on Asus without EasyFlash and WinFlash

I have an Asus notebook (model F200MA), running GNU/Linux (Debian Stretch) with a non-functional battery and I want to update the BIOS. How can I update the BIOS without WinFlash and EasyFlash? I'm not using Windows so I can't use the WinFlash…
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SSD Drive Invisible During Windows 10 Installation

I have a brand new FreeDOS Acer Nitro 5 laptop with AN515-55 model name and NH.Q7MEY.001 part number. I encountered an issue during Windows 10 installation on the device. While Western Digital's WDC PC SN530 SDBPNPZ-512G-1014 model 512 GB SSD is…
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How to use Colemak keyboard layout in Freedos?

I installed Freedos onto a usb stick (using Rufus) Out the box it uses the qwerty keyboard layout. How can I make it use the Colemak keyboard layout?
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FreeDOS AUTOEXEC.BAT

I am using a FreeDOS floppy boot disk made from sys.com of FreeDOS (I am using them on virtual box and floppy disk is virtual). I have wasted all my day trying to make an AUTOEXEC.BAT which loads ctmouse (an app for using a mouse on FreeDOS), and…
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