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I finally got round to publishing a version 1.0 of my long-running hobby project: a bootable DOS live USB image with tools for writers, providing a distraction-free writing environment.

github.com/lproven/usb-dos

This is very rushed and the instructions are incomplete. Only FAT16 for now; FAT32 coming real soon now.

Usable DOS-based live USB media. Contribute to lproven/usb-dos development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Thomas Dorr

@lproven
Curious if a UEFI bootable Linux with dosbox would get into newer hardware, although you might have to make a kernel without network support for it... Hmm

@thomasdorr There's occasionally discussion about this on the FreeDOS mailing list.

I reckon it would be doable with a 386 memory manager on steroids, plus a copy of SeaBIOS. Mostly, though, the developers say no way. And they know much more than I do!

@thomasdorr If on the other hand you were thinking of creating a lightweight Linux distribution just to run DOS apps, then go for it. I suggest taking a look at the way HP did it.

blog.tmm.cx/2022/05/15/the-ver

blog.tmm.cxThe very weird Hewlett Packard FreeDOS option – Interesting things

@lproven
Gosh this is a rabbit hole of infinite depth