[Coco] Linux User

[Kevin Becker]

Good to know. I haven’t messed with MS-DOS on modern hardware at all.

> On Jul 28, 2018, at 6:47 PM, Jack Carpenter via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
>
> I have a 2gb USB formatted 16bit that has Dos 6.22 and it see the drive as C: and it boots 2 Laptop 1 Desktop.
>
> I don't any type of emulator the closest to a emulator will be Coco SDC or Drivewire if that even one.
>
>
>    On Saturday, July 28, 2018, 10:36:40 PM GMT, Kevin Becker <kevin at kevinbecker.org> wrote:
>
> I don't think you can boot MS-DOS from a USB device, unless maybe there
> were some kind of special BIOS support to allow for it.  DOS won't have USB
> driver support.
>
> But you may want to check out DOSBox which is a DOS emulator that is very
> popular.  I don't have any first-hand experience with it but I know a lot
> of people use it for playing old MS-DOS games.
>
> On Sat, Jul 28, 2018 at 5:14 PM, Jack Carpenter via Coco <
> coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
>
>> I was thinking of doing this and what do you all think?
>>
>> I have a 32gb Sandisk USB 3 and I want partition it like this 2gb for Dos
>> 6.22 and the rest for Mint Linux 19 desktop Mate. It came with Mint Linux
>> on my Acer Aspire came when I bought it from eBay but it now has Windows 7
>> that why I'm going to use the USB if it will work OK. If I use Drivewire
>> then I can use Windows or Linux what ever bootup at that time.
>>
>> Why I want Dos on that USB because it bring back old times like the Coco3
>> dose.
>>
>> --
>> Coco mailing list
>> Coco at maltedmedia.com
>> https://pairlist5.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/coco
>>
>
> --
> Coco mailing list
> Coco at maltedmedia.com
> https://pairlist5.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/coco
>
>
> --
> Coco mailing list
> Coco at maltedmedia.com
> https://pairlist5.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/coco