Installing RAMFSOS2

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USB Flahs / FAT32 / From Windows 10

I had been trying to install RAMFSOS2 to boot from a 4GB USB Flash drive and doing this from Windows 10 (64bits)

  1. Check that the USB Flash drive is formatted on FAT32
  2. Unzip all the contents of the RAMFSOS2 zip to the root of the Flash Drive.

Let's prepare some changes to make it boot from the FAT32 USB flash drive.


Changes on the "ramboot.cfg"

  1. Modify the "ramboot.cfg" file, this has the Config.sys stuff; Change cdfs.ifs line to fat32.ifs.
 ifs=@:\os2\boot\fat32.ifs /C:8 /M:32 /W
  1. Also on the config.sys add on "usbd.sys" the following parameter "/I13"
!ifeq USBCD yes
basedev=usbd.sys /V /I13
!else
basedev=usbd.sys /V /I13
!endif
  1. Comment-out DASD32.DMD and OS2LVM.DMD and uncomment DANIDASD.DMD.
!ifeq DASD dani
basedev=danidasd.dmd /AT:35,83,27 /MT:Aa,Ac,Ad,Ae,Af,Ab
basedev=danidasd.dmd /AT:35,83,27 /MT:Ab,Ae,Aa
basedev=danidasd.dmd /AT:35,83,27 /MT:Cc,Ce,Cb,Cg,Ci,Ch
basedev=danidasd.dmd /AT:35,83,27
rem /MT:Bb,Bd,Ba,Bf,Bh,Bg
!endif
!ifeq DASD dani+partfilt
basedev=partfilt.flt /A /W /V /P 83,35,27,0B,0C
basedev=danidasd.dmd /AT:35,83,27
!endif
!ifeq DASD 32
REM basedev=dasd32.dmd
REM basedev=os2lvm.dmd
!endif
!ifeq DASD 16
basedev=dasd16.dmd
!endif

Now it is the turn of the FreeInst tool to modify the USB Flash booting.

  1. Go to the \Tools\FreeInst directory
  2. Run "fi-w32.exe"
  3. Select Y if you are sure to continue

  1. Select the drive where you are going to install FreeLdr