DOS is now an OS category

[nick]

On the front page DOS is now selectable from the pull down list of operating systems and architechtures. I added this mainly becuase of the Ultimate Bood CD, which, along with several Linux LiveCD distros, contains dozens of DOS boot floppy images, which now boot from the CD. FreeDOS and MS DOS, and any other DOS versions will fit into this category

[anony]

> MS DOS LiveCD

AFAIK MS-DOS is still a copyrighted product (not supported) from Microsoft. IMO MS lawyer will sue anyone who created MS-DOS LiveCD.

Another DOS variant: DR-DOS / OpenDOS (Digital Research/ Netware).

IBM/Lenovo and several local PC vendors still sell computers with IBM PC DOS.

[nick]

AFAIK MS-DOS is still a copyrighted product (not supported) from Microsoft. IMO MS lawyer will sue anyone who created MS-DOS LiveCD.

That's true, like Windows, we'll probably never see a freely downloadable LiveCD with MS DOS.

[anony]

There is an alpha version of FreeDOS LiveCD with access to NTFS partition from Mark Bailey.

Is this a legitimate / legal product?

If the project is completed, is it possible to put FreeDOS LiveCD on the list?

From: Mark Bailey (July 12, 2005)

Good day, all:

Thanks to the kindness of Datapol gmbh in Germany and the power of FreeDOS, I am announcing the Alpha test version 1.0 of the DOS Contesting LiveCD. I need volunteers to test this and report back. Please let me know if you are willing to test this and I will send you an ISO image of the CD!

NOTE: This CD may only be used on "private" computers and for "private" purposes. You may not use it on work computers or for work. This is due to the licensing for the private (free) version of NTFS4DOS! See www.datapol.de/dpe/freeware.

This is a bootable CD containing FreeDOS. You can boot it on almost any modern computer and run DOS. The CD also contains the private version of NTFS4DOS from Datapol. This allows you to have read and write access to any NTFS hard disk partition from DOS.

This means that you can walk up to a WindowsXP computer, boot this CD, and save a contest log file to the hard disk of the computer!

The way I envision this being used for now is for the user to create a directory on the C:\ drive of the WindowsXP computer and install CT or TRLog in that directory. You can do this from WindowsXP! This makes things like updating cty.dat and master.dta/trmaster.dta files very easy.

Please let me know if you are willing to test this! I will mail you the 2MByte ISO file and, if you need them, directions for creating a bootable CD from the ISO file.

Thanks again to Datapol and the FreeDOS community.