Howdy I can recomment DOSemu. It runs with and without gui. Yea german software rocks ;) XD. Cheers chrys Am Freitag 26. Mai 2017 schrieb Linux for blind general discussion: > What I want to do is see what a particular DOS diskette > prints when one boots it up. I downloaded a zip file that has a > whole tool kit of interesting goodies that will let a person boot > an older PC from a usb drive even when the system in question has > no usb drivers in it's BIOS. The DOS disk simply has a usb > driver which probably runs just long enough to allow a bootable > thumb drive to get a Linux or other kernel up and running which > then goes through it's boot sequence, sort of a case of a boot > for a boot. > > This application is called plpbt and was written in > Germany but the English documentation is very good. > > I guess one could even boot a version of Windows this way > but as soon as the usb drive begins it's boot procedure,one isn't > going to gain anything in accessibility. > > What I am interested in is what shows up on the screen so > I will know what keys to press when booting it blind, so to > speak. > > I should also add that if the dos disk writes directly to > video memory, this is not going to work but my question again is > strictly about a way to run the DOS boot far enough to get some > output. > > For those who are curious, the zip file is called > > plpbt-5.0.15.zip > > My hopes are to use the dos to usb booter on a couple of > Dell systems I have that tend to keep rearranging their boot > order so that the hard drive boots the system if there is no > floppy, leaving the CDROM drive for last. When that happens, you > can't just try a live CD without first going in to the BIOS setup > which, as we all know is a royal pain on the vast majority of > PC's. > > If this works, I can beat those systems at their own game > and start the boot from a floppy. > > Thanks for any constructive ideas. > > Martin McCormick > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list