Re: [Freedos-devel] Getting ready for FreeDOS 1.2

Hello Juan, First, thanks all the information. It definitely should be helpful. > [..] >> What host OS are you using? > openSUSE 11.4 Love openSuSE. (My personal favorite distro!) > [..] Based on your information, I have been able to replicate the problem in VirtualBox as well. Basically,

Re: [Freedos-devel] Getting ready for FreeDOS 1.2

Am 22.10.2016 18:08, schrieb Jerome E. Shidel Jr.: Hello Jerome and all the other interested ones, [snip] > What host OS are you using? openSUSE 11.4 > If you booted the CD under VMware and installed FreeDOS, > are you still booting the El Torito CD? Yes. I forgot to unmount it. Now I have

Re: [Freedos-devel] Getting ready for FreeDOS 1.2

> On Oct 22, 2016, at 1:11 PM, Antony Gordon wrote: > > Hi, > > Host OS should not matter. If the "gold standard" of MS-DOS works in that > configuration with the disk images, there is definitely something that isn't > right in this release. For those having a problem,

Re: [Freedos-devel] Getting ready for FreeDOS 1.2

Hi, Host OS should not matter. If the "gold standard" of MS-DOS works in that configuration with the disk images, there is definitely something that isn't right in this release. For those having a problem, what happens in FreeDOS 1.1. Tony On Sat, Oct 22, 2016, 12:10 PM Jerome E. Shidel Jr.

Re: [Freedos-devel] Getting ready for FreeDOS 1.2

Op zaterdag 22 oktober 2016 heeft Tom Ehlert het volgende geschreven: > Dear Marten! Haha! Is my name that difficult, you're the 5th person on this list to write my name wrong. :) > but: > > when changing the topic, please change the subject of your mail Sorry, didn't

Re: [Freedos-devel] Getting ready for FreeDOS 1.2

Hello Juan, > On Oct 22, 2016, at 7:55 AM, Juan Manuel Guerrero > wrote: > > OFYI: I have tried to format a floppy image with a VMware Player 5.0.2 using > FreeDOS 1.2-pre23 and I have observed the same issue as described for > VirtualBox. The FreeDOS 1.2 preview

Re: [Freedos-devel] Getting ready for FreeDOS 1.2

Hi Juan, ... > Full Formatting (wiping all data) > [DEBUG] Formatting: Cylinder: 0 Head: 0 Sectors: 18 ... > [DEBUG] Formatting: Cylinder: 79 Head: 1 Sectors: 18 > 98% 100% > [DEBUG] File System Creation > [DEBUG] Boot Sector -> 0 > [DEBUG] FAT Sectors: 1 to 18 -> >0%

Re: [Freedos-devel] Getting ready for FreeDOS 1.2

OFYI: I have tried to format a floppy image with a VMware Player 5.0.2 using FreeDOS 1.2-pre23 and I have observed the same issue as described for VirtualBox. If /q/u is used it becomes possible to format the image. I have also tried to format using only /d. See below for the output produced.

Re: [Freedos-devel] Getting ready for FreeDOS 1.2

Hi Maarten, > I got an error when trying to format a floppy in Virtualbox (which is > a completely logical error). It was a int 0x13 write error. But after > that the system hangs. It is 'fatal' but I would think fatal for that > piece of software. So can't it go back an try to go to [a

Re: [Freedos-devel] Getting ready for FreeDOS 1.2

and questions for FreeDOS developers. Onderwerp: Re: [Freedos-devel] Getting ready for FreeDOS 1.2 Hello Tom, On Oct 15, 2016, at 12:27 PM, Tom Ehlert <t...@drivesnapshot.de> wrote: […] I can understand that you - as a user of the BIOS standard US keyboard - have little understanding of th

Re: [Freedos-devel] Getting ready for FreeDOS 1.2

Hello Tom, > On Oct 15, 2016, at 12:27 PM, Tom Ehlert > wrote: > […] > I can understand that you - as a user of the BIOS standard US keyboard - > have little understanding of the size of the problem. > > we had recently a discussion about

Re: [Freedos-devel] Getting ready for FreeDOS 1.2

> 1.2 will be shipping with mkeyb 0.41 dated 2006. It contains (at a glance) a > dozen or so > more languages. > I see GR, GR2 and SG (Swiss German) keymaps available. > Being in the USA and using a US Keyboard, I have never messed with these. But, > MKEYB is easy to use. So, I will see

Re: [Freedos-devel] Getting ready for FreeDOS 1.2

Hello Eric, > On Oct 14, 2016, at 4:01 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > > > Hi Jerome, as said, I would recommend a little dialog in the > installer for the MKEYB keyboard languages only, with a REM > line in the config to let people enable other layouts with > the bigger KEYB

Re: [Freedos-devel] Getting ready for FreeDOS 1.2

Hi Jerome, as said, I would recommend a little dialog in the installer for the MKEYB keyboard languages only, with a REM line in the config to let people enable other layouts with the bigger KEYB manually at a later moment. See the list here: > C:\>mkeyb /L > mKEYB 0.34 [Sep 18 2002] - all

Re: [Freedos-devel] Getting ready for FreeDOS 1.2

Hello again Juan, > On Oct 13, 2016, at 3:32 PM, Juan Manuel Guerrero > wrote: > > Hello Jerome and Eric > > Thank you for your comments. IMHO the issue of having a working keyboard is > essential. DOS and its clones appear to their users as TUI thus if the > keyboard

Re: [Freedos-devel] Getting ready for FreeDOS 1.2

Hello Jerome and Eric Thank you for your comments. IMHO the issue of having a working keyboard is essential. DOS and its clones appear to their users as TUI thus if the keyboard does not allow to issue commands it makes the OS to become almost useless. An user that has to hit around ten

Re: [Freedos-devel] Getting ready for FreeDOS 1.2

Hi, to add my 2 cents... Linux versions ask for your language (or even geolocate your IP :-)) and then default to your timezone (not needed for DOS if you assume RTC is on local time) and keyboard layout for that language & place. I think it would be very convenient if there could be a

Re: [Freedos-devel] Getting ready for FreeDOS 1.2

Hello Juan, > On Oct 12, 2016, at 4:13 PM, Juan Manuel Guerrero > wrote: > > I have installed > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.2/previews/1.2-pre23/FD12CD.iso > on a VMware virtual machine. The host is linux. The installation

Re: [Freedos-devel] Getting ready for FreeDOS 1.2

I have installed http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.2/previews/1.2-pre23/FD12CD.iso on a VMware virtual machine. The host is linux. The installation process runs flawlessly so far. But when finished and the machine is rebooted I end up with an US keyboard

Re: [Freedos-devel] Getting ready for FreeDOS 1.2

​I can set aside an hour today dedicated to "Breaking" FreeDOS.If I find any bugs,I will report them back.​ On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 11:09 AM, Jim Hall wrote: > Have you been testing the pre-releases of the upcoming FreeDOS 1.2 > release? Jerome and others have been doing a