Re: [Freedos-user] Question about xFDisk and a multiboot setup

2023-03-14 Thread usul
I think I have managed to get both MSDos and Freedos though currently I cannot boot into freedos Trying to find a version of Linux that I like, I will probably pick Manjaro XFCE, that seems to run the best on that laptop and have access to the stuff I need/want which is mostly Virtual Box, and

Re: [Freedos-user] Question about xFDisk and a multiboot setup

2023-03-13 Thread usul
I was looking at that. On Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 1:55 PM Louis Santillan wrote: > Might I suggest you try Microwindows/Nano-X on DOS and Linux? > > http://www.microwindows.org/ > > > On Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 11:41 AM usul wrote: > >> I probably am that guy. I co

Re: [Freedos-user] Question about xFDisk and a multiboot setup

2023-03-13 Thread usul
dos. Never did much win 95 came out shortly (like a couple of years) after I got started. I'll find something simpler freedos related to cut my dos programmer teeth on. Probably... :) Adam On Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 6:24 AM Liam Proven wrote: > On Thu, 9 Mar 2023 at 15:18, usul wrote

Re: [Freedos-user] Question about xFDisk and a multiboot setup

2023-03-09 Thread usul
I am no longer an experienced DOS user. I am relearning. And only understood half of what you said. Guess I have gotten old and lazy. and even back in the day I just went right to windows, to work in VB 3. I think 95 came out a year after I really got my start. Plus I really want them to be

[Freedos-user] Question about xFDisk and a multiboot setup

2023-03-09 Thread usul
Was there a reason this doesn't seem to be included on the usb installer (if it is I can't find it) I and trying to get a multiboot setup 1. MSDOS 6.22 + Win 3.11 2. FreeDos 1.3 3. I was going to do XP but annoying so no. (it dumped on drive "E", getting networking and drivers was a

Re: [Freedos-user] Greetings

2023-03-01 Thread usul
rchive.org/details/msdos_5_User_Guide_complete > https://archive.org/details/msdos_5_User_Guide_complete > <https://archive.org/details/msdos_5_User_Guide_complete> > > On Wed, Mar 1, 2023, at 2:22 PM, usul wrote: > > This is awesome, thank you. > > > > On Wed, Mar 1, 2023 at 3:18 PM Rugxu

Re: [Freedos-user] Greetings

2023-03-01 Thread usul
This is awesome, thank you. On Wed, Mar 1, 2023 at 3:18 PM Rugxulo wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Mar 1, 2023 at 11:57 AM usul wrote: > > > > So I was digging through my old "stuff" and found some of my old cds and > my Dell Latitude D520 laptop. And I

Re: [Freedos-user] Greetings

2023-03-01 Thread usul
os and win 3.1 don't need a lot of resources and should run fine > virtually. > > On Wed, 1 Mar 2023, 17:57 usul, wrote: > >> So I was digging through my old "stuff" and found some of my old cds and >> my Dell Latitude D520 laptop. And I got all nostalgic . I got my star

[Freedos-user] Greetings

2023-03-01 Thread usul
So I was digging through my old "stuff" and found some of my old cds and my Dell Latitude D520 laptop. And I got all nostalgic . I got my start with a 486 DX 8 mgs of Ram. I mostly did Visual Basic 3.0 programming to start after I finished college. VBA/ MS Access then to Dot Net. I can read C /

Re: [Freedos-user] GUI's for dos II

2010-02-24 Thread usul
Create a zip file and rename it, that should allow you to put them all in a single file. i.e.hobo.zip.remove or hobo.change :) On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 2:49 PM, kurt godel wb2...@gmail.com wrote:    Mateusz, I put it on my little freebie site: www.dosoid.bravehost.com. Unfortunately, the free

Re: [Freedos-user] [Freedosuser] FreeDOS localisation project

2009-04-08 Thread usul
Does freedos/fat/dos store the files date and time information properly. Perhaps we could go by newer file instead of messages. The newer version of something may have less after some cleanup. On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Mateusz Viste mate...@viste-family.net wrote: On Wednesday 08 April

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing programs on FreeDOS v1.1

2009-04-05 Thread usul
. just my .02 cents worth. usul -- ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] What about changing our packaging style for v1.1?

2009-04-04 Thread usul
steps that you ad the more cumbersome it becomes. and to be honest, even I would not want the sources for 80%, the other 20% would be temporary. if there was a way to automate the removal of the directory or not create them that would work. usul

Re: [Freedos-user] patents - was: LFN in FreeDOS kernel? - was: aimed compatibility?

2009-03-31 Thread usul
Question on these as I don't really understand. http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?patentnumber=5745902U.S. Patent 5,745,902 Method and system for accessing a file using file names having different file name formats - http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?patentnumber=5579517U.S.

Re: [Freedos-user] patents - was: LFN in FreeDOS kernel? - was: aimed compatibility?

2009-03-31 Thread usul
There is always another way to do it. receiving a long file name in a long file name format; storing the received long file name in a first file entry of the tree structure along with a file storage indicator indicating the location of the file in the memory; automatically generating a short file

Re: [Freedos-user] patents - was: LFN in FreeDOS kernel? - was: aimed compatibility?

2009-03-31 Thread usul
Whenever theoretically someone would claim you are violating our patents, stop it for we sue you it questionable if the sabre rattle was already enough for the extortion and if ever a court would have the chance to judge. I would stand my ground if I knew that I took the time to avoid the

Re: [Freedos-user] patents - was: LFN in FreeDOS kernel? - was: aimed compatibility?

2009-03-31 Thread usul
By the way I must repeat the question who would be theoretically sued?. I would think the end users. For Example: Companies that distribute new PCs with FreeDos installed. someone that sold FreeDos on a bootable USB Someone that sold and built CD for open source.

Re: [Freedos-user] patents - was: LFN in FreeDOS kernel? - was: aimed compatibility?

2009-03-31 Thread usul
Does that mean everyone has to take out DOSLFN? From linux and freedos? Maybe this is also a dumb question but is it possible to run FreeDos on a different File System? liek on of the linux ones and still be able to run/use most dos programs?

Re: [Freedos-user] patents - was: LFN in FreeDOS kernel? - was: aimed compatibility?

2009-03-31 Thread usul
I just missed it thats all, :) -- ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] patents - was: LFN in FreeDOS kernel? - was: aimed compatibility?

2009-03-31 Thread usul
But this wouldn't be a good solution as there are still much more other patents we might have not considered yet. But I believe there is enough usage of the Linux file systems to make this a less than likely target. And FAT = Microsoft so it was easy for them to use that as a target.

Re: [Freedos-user] Networking

2009-03-30 Thread usul
Uli, I bought ORiNOCO Classic Gold PC Card. http://www.orinocowireless.com/products/wifi/client/goldpccard/index.html I know wireless is a risk but I checked in the documentation it had dos and linux drivers :) and I downloaded the ISO with all of that on it. the iso has several directories

[Freedos-user] MSCLIENT

2009-03-30 Thread usul
Is MSCLIENT the only choice? Has anyone tried to create something open sourced for FreeDos? Like FDCLIENT? :) usul -- ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] Networking

2009-03-30 Thread usul
I am testing a few Linux OSes to see what works best. Tried Tiny, DLS-N, Puppy so far. :) Just a matter of seeing which one likes the linux driver the best. And looks better, I don't really like the look and feel of DSL. Trying a flux based puppy tonight :) But yeah I was thinking that I would

Re: [Freedos-user] Networking

2009-03-30 Thread usul
the things that don't work or become cumbersome get identified and fix, worked around improved. :) Cheating was a bad choice of words and prob an even worse attempt at humor. usul

Re: [Freedos-user] network drive

2009-03-30 Thread usul
if someone were to write something that encompassed all the operation success, patent dead networking where would one start? What is the linux equivelent samba? On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Michael Reichenbach michael_reichenb...@freenet.de wrote: Christian Groessler schrieb: Hi, If

[Freedos-user] Networking

2009-03-29 Thread usul
Hello, I have the internet card and the drivers. So now what. I looked up all I could and there are alot of sites some the link works some they don't. I'm not really sure what needs to be done. thanks, Adam --

[Freedos-user] Installation Problems

2009-03-19 Thread usul
Hello I am having problems installing the current version. I get everything completed and it seems to be ok, fdisked and set 2g to the os as primary partition, active and after booting from the CD Rom I can go to the c: and see all the files including the system ones. but when I try and boot from

[Freedos-user] Install Problems

2009-03-17 Thread usul
I installed freedos correctlly or so I thought. When I boot from the hard drive and not the CD I get an F 99 99 99 (lots of nines) I can boot from the cd and see everything on the hard drive and run programs just fine. What did I do incorrectly? ~theMouse

[Freedos-user] freedos qemu

2007-09-26 Thread usul
hello, has anyone done this and got filesharing and networking to work? usul - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos qemu

2007-09-26 Thread usul
having problems installing FreeDos to USB so I thought this would work almost just as well. thanks, usul - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos qemu

2007-09-26 Thread usul
Ah I have not tried it on linux yet. usul On 9/26/07, Mateusz Viste [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 26 September 2007 19:26, usul wrote: Checkout QEMU Manager GUI + QEMU + Accelerator. Well, this is a program for Win32... In Win32 it's not a problem to install QEMU and Qemu

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos qemu

2007-09-26 Thread usul
http://gtk-qemu.sourceforge.net/ I don't know if there is an accelerator for linux. thanks, usul On 9/26/07, Mateusz Viste [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 26 September 2007 19:26, usul wrote: Checkout QEMU Manager GUI + QEMU + Accelerator. Well, this is a program for Win32

[Freedos-user] Installing to USB

2007-09-25 Thread usul
Hello I am trying to install to a usb drive from the livecd. I am booting from the CD. I am installing to the USB (shows up as c:) It starts fine and shuts down as its copying the files for the fdos directory. is there a problem with the usb drivers and copying? I figure I can just copy all the

RE: [Freedos-user] Release 2 is strange

2006-03-18 Thread usul
download the http://odin.fdos.org/ Use that and the floppy boot images to create your own base and then download the rest that you want. Don't forget to add your cdrom drivers to the list. :) I have to do the same. Usul -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [Freedos-user] setting wireles with freedos?

2006-03-16 Thread usul
I don't think there are any dos drivers Or software that will work. Adam -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Lee Mullins Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 5:30 PM To: FreeDOS User Subject: [Freedos-user] setting wireles with freedos?

RE: [Freedos-user] test boot floppy

2006-03-14 Thread usul
. Let me know if you need any more assistance. Sincerely, Usul -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rinaldo Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 6:21 AM To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Freedos-user] test boot floppy Hi Friends I am

RE: [Freedos-user] Problems with floppy disk installation

2006-03-03 Thread usul
only be your second. NOTE: no matter what I did to install VIM it didn't work And it hung up the install process. Skip it copy the file later. I know this probably isn't much help. LOL. Good luck! Usul -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf