Solve : How to convert FreeDOS to MSDOS??

1.	Solve : How to convert FreeDOS to MSDOS??
Answer» I have a working installation of FreeDOS on a BOOTABLE USB flash DRIVE. I WANT to have a working installation of MSDOS on that USB drive. How would I go about switching one out for the other? Is it as simple as overwriting the FreeDOS files with MSDOS files, or do I need to modify the boot record for the USB drive? Alternatively, how could I install MSDOS onto a non-bootable flash drive? Thanks! MattFreeDOS is the actual OS, or a DOS shell, like the Command prompt? If it is an actual OS, then that would be piracy, so you should leave.FreeDos isn't an actual OS , but MSDOS is so that would be piracy!and if you owned it?Quote from: BatchFileCommand on January 24, 2009, 07:47:21 PM FreeDos isn't an actual OS , but MSDOS is so that would be piracy! Not sure why you bothered posting that, BFC, since FreeDOS definitely is an actual OS (1), and if you own a licensed (2) copy of MS-DOS it wouldn't be piracy. Don't they have Google on your planet? (1) Quote from: http://www.freedos.org/ FreeDOS is a complete, free, 100% MS-DOS compatible operating system. (2) Quote from: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/79747 The MS-DOS version 5.0 or later upgrades and packaged products are licensed to customers for use on one computer at a time. If you want to use MS-DOS on another computer (such as a laptop computer), you must remove or uninstall MS-DOS before it is used on the other computer. Microsoft Windows version 3.1 and later is licensed the same as MS-DOS. This also applies to network users. Incidentally... Quote from: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/79747 Microsoft programs are licensed differently from Microsoft operating systems. A Microsoft Word for Windows licensee who USES a particular computer 80 percent of the time can load the program onto a computer she or he uses 20 percent of the time, without purchasing another license. This applies to Microsoft products such as Microsoft Excel, Word, and Microsoft PowerPoint. Quote from: Miriax on January 21, 2009, 11:05:24 PM or do I need to modify the boot record for the USB drive? You'd need to use the (MS-DOS) SYS command. Quote Alternatively, how could I install MSDOS onto a non-bootable flash drive? Just copy the files onto it. But why would you want to do this? Have it non-bootable I mean. The DOS COMMANDS on it wouldn't work, and it's just as easy to make a bootable MS-DOS pen drive. Presuming you have a licensed copy of MS-DOS, there are a squillion guides on the web for this.

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I have a working installation of FreeDOS on a BOOTABLE USB flash DRIVE. I WANT to have a working installation of MSDOS on that USB drive. How would I go about switching one out for the other? Is it as simple as overwriting the FreeDOS files with MSDOS files, or do I need to modify the boot record for the USB drive?

Alternatively, how could I install MSDOS onto a non-bootable flash drive?
Thanks!
MattFreeDOS is the actual OS, or a DOS shell, like the Command prompt?

If it is an actual OS, then that would be piracy, so you should leave.FreeDos isn't an actual OS , but MSDOS is so that would be piracy!and if you owned it?Quote from: BatchFileCommand on January 24, 2009, 07:47:21 PM

FreeDos isn't an actual OS , but MSDOS is so that would be piracy!

Not sure why you bothered posting that, BFC, since FreeDOS definitely is an actual OS (1), and if you own a licensed (2) copy of MS-DOS it wouldn't be piracy. Don't they have Google on your planet?

(1)
Quote from: http://www.freedos.org/

FreeDOS is a complete, free, 100% MS-DOS compatible operating system.

(2)
Quote from: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/79747

The MS-DOS version 5.0 or later upgrades and packaged products are licensed to customers for use on one computer at a time. If you want to use MS-DOS on another computer (such as a laptop computer), you must remove or uninstall MS-DOS before it is used on the other computer. Microsoft Windows version 3.1 and later is licensed the same as MS-DOS. This also applies to network users.

Incidentally...

Quote from: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/79747

Microsoft programs are licensed differently from Microsoft operating systems. A Microsoft Word for Windows licensee who USES a particular computer 80 percent of the time can load the program onto a computer she or he uses 20 percent of the time, without purchasing another license. This applies to Microsoft products such as Microsoft Excel, Word, and Microsoft PowerPoint.

Quote from: Miriax on January 21, 2009, 11:05:24 PM

or do I need to modify the boot record for the USB drive?

You'd need to use the (MS-DOS) SYS command.

Quote

Alternatively, how could I install MSDOS onto a non-bootable flash drive?

Just copy the files onto it. But why would you want to do this? Have it non-bootable I mean. The DOS COMMANDS on it wouldn't work, and it's just as easy to make a bootable MS-DOS pen drive. Presuming you have a licensed copy of MS-DOS, there are a squillion guides on the web for this.

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