Re: [Freedos-user] ssd on eeepc

2020-09-28 Thread dmccunney
On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 7:34 PM Joao Silva wrote: > > I'm from Portugal and here a ssd are around 39.67 us dollars / 34 euros for > 240gb, and i don't know if there are lower sizes anymore... still expensive. That's about what I'd expect to pay in the US for a 240GB SSD, depending upon brand.

Re: [Freedos-user] ssd on eeepc

2020-09-28 Thread ZB
On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 02:45:02AM +0200, Tomas By wrote: > > Did you have any Soundblaster-like sound on that gear? > > It just says "onboard audio" in the BIOS. > > Apparently the version I have is too old for copy to support the /S > switch, so was not able to test an old game I have. I was

Re: [Freedos-user] ssd on eeepc

2020-09-28 Thread Tomas By
On Tue, 29 Sep 2020 02:10:03 +0200, ZB wrote: > Did you have any Soundblaster-like sound on that gear? It just says "onboard audio" in the BIOS. Apparently the version I have is too old for copy to support the /S switch, so was not able to test an old game I have. /Tomas

Re: [Freedos-user] ssd on eeepc

2020-09-28 Thread ZB
On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 02:05:58AM +0200, Tomas By wrote: > I did this a couple of years ago on an Eeepc 701, and I ended up with > only Freedos, after trying several Linux distributions. Cannot > remember details unfortunately. Did you have any Soundblaster-like sound on that gear? -- regards,

Re: [Freedos-user] ssd on eeepc

2020-09-28 Thread Tomas By
> On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 12:17 AM dmccunney wrote: > I'd install a low resource requirement version of Linux on ext4, carve > out a separate FAT partition for FreeDOS, and multi-boot. > > I wouldn't try to make FreeDOS the primary OS. On Tue, 29 Sep 2020 01:32:24 +0200, Joao Silva wrote: >

Re: [Freedos-user] ssd on eeepc

2020-09-28 Thread Joao Silva
Hi! I started to use Linux with Ubuntu 8 something, the last one before moving to 9. Back then my main computer had a hdd splitted in 3 partitions: main with linux, 2nd with winxp and 3rd with win98. Then I ditched win98 and went to linux/winxp/w7 and after some problems with windows booting

Re: [Freedos-user] ssd on eeepc

2020-09-28 Thread Joao Silva
Hi! I'm from Portugal and here a ssd are around 39.67 us dollars / 34 euros for 240gb, and i don't know if there are lower sizes anymore... still expensive. To install 2 OS, i would go with Windows 95 SE or 98 SE to copy files (games for me), i don't know but i'm sure that freedos will read pen

Re: [Freedos-user] ssd on eeepc

2020-09-28 Thread ZB
On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 07:15:28PM -0400, dmccunney wrote: > > I was thinking of installing Linux Xubuntu for it's low resources. > > I did that on an ancient notebook that had a whopping *256MB* RAM. > Xubuntu would install, but performance left a lot to be desired. I recall the time when one

Re: [Freedos-user] ssd on eeepc

2020-09-28 Thread dmccunney
On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 6:15 PM Joao Silva wrote: > > I have a eeepc laptop originally came with windows xp and i switched to > windows 10 N, but sadly is too slow... turtle mode. Win10 needs 4GB RAM *minimum*. The sweet spot is 6GB. No surprise performance was poor. > I was thinking of

Re: [Freedos-user] ssd on eeepc

2020-09-28 Thread Joao Silva
Hi. I don't mind the black bars as long i can play the games and use a debugger that requires int13 (if not mistaken). I'll try them, theFDAPM and APMDOS. I don't know about the bios power settings... I don't know about the speaker... last year i installed windows 98 SE on a virtual machine

Re: [Freedos-user] ssd on eeepc

2020-09-28 Thread Joao Silva
Hi. I'll do a search, something is bound to appear. Thank you. On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 11:26 PM ZB wrote: > On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 11:13:49PM +0100, Joao Silva wrote: > > > I have a eeepc laptop originally came with windows xp and i switched to > > windows 10 N, but sadly is too slow...

Re: [Freedos-user] ssd on eeepc

2020-09-28 Thread Eric Auer
Bom dia João! > 1 - Will freedos work well with atom cpu I remember booting FreeDOS on EEE PC from SD card: Worked. But note that the screen resolution is different from what is common in DOS, so expect some playing with MODE and some black bars to be present even with tuned DOS resolutions.

Re: [Freedos-user] ssd on eeepc

2020-09-28 Thread ZB
On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 11:13:49PM +0100, Joao Silva wrote: > I have a eeepc laptop originally came with windows xp and i switched to > windows 10 N, but sadly is too slow... turtle mode. I was thinking of > installing Linux XUbuntu for it's low resources. > > A friend of my IT guy "is nagging"

[Freedos-user] ssd on eeepc

2020-09-28 Thread Joao Silva
Hi to all. I have a eeepc laptop originally came with windows xp and i switched to windows 10 N, but sadly is too slow... turtle mode. I was thinking of installing Linux XUbuntu for it's low resources. A friend of my IT guy "is nagging" me a year now to get an ssd, so i was thinking get one ssd