Re: [Freedos-user] Another possible ambiguity of target; a drive part not acceptable to the installer.

2012-12-19 Thread Jim Hall
On Monday, December 17, 2012, wrote: Given a drive partitioned with fdisk in Debian Linux. The first part is labelled type 6 and I want to install FreeDOS there. The FreeDOS 1.1 CD installer complains and wants to format the disk. Does it really want to format the whole disk containing 4

Re: [Freedos-user] hunting a program?

2012-12-19 Thread Michael B. Brutman
mTCP sounds right. ; - 0 The latest versions are at Google Code: https://code.google.com/p/mtcp/ . It gets updated more frequently than FreeDOS does, hence the spamming the mailing list. The next version so far has mostly IRCjr fixes and improvements. I'm also looking into making it more

Re: [Freedos-user] Windows 98SE screwing up Freedos 1.1...

2012-12-19 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 19-12-2012 7:45, Michael Robinson schreef: like freedos command.com got renamed to command.dos and I've already renamed autoexec.bat to fdauto.bat, but fdconfig.sys seems to be I think the files get renamed to *.DOS (AUTOEXEC.DOS/CONFIG.DOS/COMMAND.DOS/MSDOS.DOS/IO.DOS) or a few of them to

Re: [Freedos-user] hunting a program?

2012-12-19 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 19-12-2012 15:19, Michael B. Brutman schreef: mTCP sounds right. ; - 0 Speaking of networking, does anyone know which modern cards are compatible with both of the following? 1) packet driver 2) iPXE A universal UNDI driver would also do miracles. I've got a closed source binary of the

Re: [Freedos-user] Windows 98SE screwing up Freedos 1.1...

2012-12-19 Thread dmccunney
On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 1:45 AM, Michael Robinson plu...@robinson-west.com wrote: First I installed Freedos 1.1 and used the 4x4 NEC cdrom, only the first slot seemed to work, to copy over the Windows 98SE cabinet files. I then proceeded to boot from the 98se cdrom and run setup from the

[Freedos-user] freedos-98

2012-12-19 Thread kurt godel
The grub4dos approach is the best, since you can boot anything with it; if that doesn't appeal to you, I would say install the 98 first, as it was designed to commandeer the entire works; the freedos stuff can be copied to the c drive *after an initial installation/backup of the freedos, which is

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos-98

2012-12-19 Thread Chris Evans
why install win98?if the computer is specd for it, install freedos, and then install ubuntu and dual boot between the two. and use wine for windows stuff. On Dec 19, 2012, at 1:36 PM, kurt godel wrote: The grub4dos approach is the best, since you can boot anything with it; if that

Re: [Freedos-user] Windows 98SE screwing up Freedos 1.1...

2012-12-19 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 12:45 AM, Michael Robinson plu...@robinson-west.com wrote: First I installed Freedos 1.1 and used the 4x4 NEC cdrom, only the first slot seemed to work, to copy over the Windows 98SE cabinet files. I then proceeded to boot from the 98se cdrom and run setup from the

Re: [Freedos-user] Another possible ambiguity of target; a drive part not acceptable to the installer.

2012-12-19 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 6:04 PM, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: Given a drive partitioned with fdisk in Debian Linux. The first part is labelled type 6 and I want to install FreeDOS there. The FreeDOS 1.1 CD installer complains and wants to format the disk. Does it really want to format

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos-98

2012-12-19 Thread dmccunney
On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Chris Evans aaxiomfin...@gmail.com wrote: why install win98?if the computer is specd for it, install freedos, and then install ubuntu and dual boot between the two. and use wine for windows stuff. Because the intent is to play games that are native for

[Freedos-user] Re (2): Another possible ambiguity of target; a drive part not acceptable to the installer.

2012-12-19 Thread peasthope
Rugxulo, From: Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 16:31:31 -0600 Do you also have a working floppy drive? Working CD drive? Both. I had hoped to use the CD made from file fd11src.iso to install FreeDOS. Isn't that the recommended procedure? FDISK creates at least one

Re: [Freedos-user] Windows 98SE screwing up Freedos 1.1...

2012-12-19 Thread dos386
[Freedos-user] Windows 98SE screwing up Freedos 1.1 Worx for me with METAKERN. Is there a simple way to repair the freedos installation so that Windows and Freedos can happily coexist? YES. Backup Windaube98 BS, fix FreeDOS, backup FreeDOS BS, set up METAKERN with those 2 BS's. Looks like

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos-98

2012-12-19 Thread dos386
I'm not even sure there's a reason to have FreeDOS in the mix. Sure there is, especially if your 98 copy isn't legal. -- LogMeIn Rescue: Anywhere, Anytime Remote support for IT. Free Trial Remotely access PCs and mobile

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos-98

2012-12-19 Thread Michael Robinson
On Thu, 2012-12-20 at 03:32 +, dos386 wrote: I'm not even sure there's a reason to have FreeDOS in the mix. Sure there is, especially if your 98 copy isn't legal. My copy is sort of legal, but I don't have as many licenses for it as I have computers running it. The computer I'm running

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos-98

2012-12-19 Thread dmccunney
On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 11:14 PM, Michael Robinson plu...@robinson-west.com wrote: On Thu, 2012-12-20 at 03:32 +, dos386 wrote: I'm not even sure there's a reason to have FreeDOS in the mix. Sure there is, especially if your 98 copy isn't legal. My copy is sort of legal, but I don't

Re: [Freedos-user] Another possible ambiguity of target; a drive part not acceptable to the installer.

2012-12-19 Thread Felix Miata
On 2012-12-19 10:37 (GMT-0800) peasth...@shaw.ca composed: From: Rugxulo FDISK creates at least one partition (primary, active, FAT, presumably bootable) for DOS. (This is written into the partition table, ... OK. If it damages the table in the process, there will be a problem accessing

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos-98

2012-12-19 Thread Andrew Robins
I think that MSFN has some great support for Win98 - I followed it for some time a few years back and there are quite a few dedicated volunteers there who had included USB 2.0 drivers, perfected the various security updates etc. Plenty of debate there as to the legality of the unofficial upgrades,