Hello all, I finally tried to build FreeDOS myself. It works better than I had imagined possible! (having seen Linux) The hardest part was to find a 16-bit NASM. I have used TurboC because 1 I already have it, 2 OpenWatcom would take too long to download at~78 mb, 3 OW is too large for the 256 mb flash drive I have been booting from
I built 4 kernels (actually, 5, but overwrote one accidentally). 1. 8086 FAT16 default (2. 186 ") 3. " FAT32 4. 8086 " 5. 186 FAT16 "WIN" (where did that come from?) Each build took <5 sec. I am using an Acer Aspire One, boot FreeDOS from USB, with HIMEMX/JEMM386 loaded (should try JEMMEX) and source + temp on an RDISK ramdrive. I have tried (5) only. Thanks for dropping the ......................................................................... at boot time. Overall, 2039-svn feels a little better, but I'm not sure why. I have NOT tried any new features, but GEMXM still works. I can't exit OpenGEM 6 by keyboard anymore (it restarts on ^Q)--no idea if this is bios, kernel, or GEM; I could on a Dell desktop w/ pre 2038 kernels, legacy USB, and boot from USB. I might try Christian's patch for"self-owned PSPs". However, I would need a test application. It might be nice to put together a list of apps to use for testing with places to find them. I can mention DOS386's GetFatDiskEx (don't know source), GEM2 (opengem sdk). HX should be tested, also. Somewhere, I saw claims that Aitor (If I remember correctly) wrote a patch to use an MS-DOS style config.sys. Is that correct, and if so, does it still exist? Thanks, Ibidem ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-kernel mailing list Freedos-kernel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-kernel
