Windows 3.1

hey ppl. i was wondering how to start-up in ms-dos?? i am going to install windows 3.1 on my flash drive.

anyone?

http://ebcd.pcministry.com/ looks interesting

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but its not what i need

KILL YOURSELF

linux doesn't have a gui so you always start up in dos mode. just use linux.

1 - you will need two things: the dos distribution (dos 6.22, google or isohunt dos622.rar) and a dos boot disk image (google here).  format your flash drive as FAT (not FAT32).

use Run->Cmd->Format [flash drive letter] so you can get some output.

note - if your flash drive has 2048 byte sectors (read format command output) instead of 512 byte sectors i don't think this will work.  if your flash drive is >2GB you will have to partition it.

2 - make a dos boot floppy from the image file.
2.1 - copy the following from the dos distro if it's not already on the floppy: SYS.COM, FDISK.COM, FORMAT.COM.  If you have to delete files do not touch COMMAND.COM, IO.SYS, or MS-DOS.SYS.

3 - enable legacy usb mass storage device support in your bios.

4 - boot the dos floopy

5 - check drives, C:, D:, E:, etc. and try to find your flash drive.  your system drive should not show up if it's ntfs

6 - once you've found your drive, type SYS [drive letter]:.  Should say "System transferred" if all is well.  Drive is now bootable.

7 - run FDISK and partition your drive if you want or need to.

8 - i'd format again just to be safe, using the MS-DOS format command

9 - boot back to windows and copy the dos distro to a suitable dir on the flash drive (DOS622 orsomething)

10 - you need to make autoexec.bat and config.sys files and probably want to get some basic drivers and utilities at this point.  good luck!