First post, by Tumerboy
Hey all, I've been trying to get dos 6.22 up and running on an old HP T5710 that I picked up a while ago. I've got a CF Card adapter, and have been trying to get it to boot off a USB for a bit.
I see everyone talk about how wonderful and easy Rufus is for this, so I've tried it (a number of times now), but keep running into issues.
If I use Rufus to create a FreeDos USB (just the FreeDos drop down option), that USB will work fine, and I can boot from it without issue on the T5710. So I know it CAN boot from USB.
However, I've tried using the "Select Image" option, with various images from BootDisk.com (DOS, W95, W98SE, etc.)
With each of these, Rufus does its thing, and the drive is prepped in seconds. Seems simple enough. However, as soon as it's done that, the drive disappears from Windows Explorer. I can't see it anymore. Rufus can still see it, and if I reformat it to be non-bootable, it'll show up again.
If I then pop that USB stick out of my main rig (I just have to pull it, since I can't eject?), and put it into the thinclient, I will get a "Non-System Disk or Disk Error" message.
What am I missing here? Everyone talks about this like its the easiest thing in the world. Is there some "make it work" checkbox I'm missing?
Thanks