very slight OT: creating a *bootable* MSDOS7 memstick

Mehmet Erol Sanliturk m.e.sanliturk at gmail.com
Fri Aug 21 17:31:42 UTC 2020


On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 8:27 PM Valeri Galtsev <galtsev at kicp.uchicago.edu>
wrote:

>
>
> On 2020-08-21 12:21, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 6:27 PM Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve at sohara.org>
> wrote:
> >
> >> On Fri, 21 Aug 2020 11:12:56 -0400
> >> Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I have a *.exe that needs to be run in order to recover the firmware on
> >>> one of my SSD's that requires MSDOS7 to run.  I do not have a floppy
> >>> drive and I do no have any form of anything from Microslut installed or
> >>> even in the house.   How do I create a bootable memstick that contains
> >>> this exe? (I am on FreeBSD 12.1pl8-amd64)
> >>
> >>          Will FreeDOS work ?
> >>
> >> --
> >> Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve at sohara.org>
> >> _______________________________________________
> >>
> >>
> >
> > There is also ReactOS for executing Windows programs  .
> > Another alternative may be Wine in FreeBSD .
> >
>
> ReactOS resembles MS Windows 3.1 for workgroups. That is, it is free
> (open source?) system mimicking behavior of MS Windows 3.1 for
> workgroups. Am I correct? Is that still active/live project?
>
> Valeri
>
> >
> > Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
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