[Freedos-user] How do I check a box in FreeDOS during installation?

2012-08-06 Thread Geoffrey van Wyk
Dear All, At a certain point during the installation of FreeDOS, one has to choose which optional packages to install. The packages selected by default are marked with Xs in their repective boxes. One then has to place Xs in the boxes of the unselected packages. I do not know how to make

Re: [Freedos-user] How do I check a box in FreeDOS during installation?

2012-08-06 Thread Ralf A. Quint
At 12:01 AM 8/6/2012, Geoffrey van Wyk wrote: Dear All, At a certain point during the installation of FreeDOS, one has to choose which optional packages to install. The packages selected by default are marked with Xs in their repective boxes. One then has to place Xs in the boxes of the

Re: [Freedos-user] How do I check a box in FreeDOS during installation?

2012-08-06 Thread Mateusz Viste
Have you tried with the space bar? Just guessing.. :) Mateusz On 08/06/2012 09:01 AM, Geoffrey van Wyk wrote: Dear All, At a certain point during the installation of FreeDOS, one has to choose which optional packages to install. The packages selected by default are marked with Xs in

[Freedos-user] almost there...

2012-08-06 Thread Mark Brown
I'm running VMWare Workstation 8, and everything's okay now except for two things: 1) how do i make the Press ESC, F2, or F12 screen    appear for more than ~0.125 second on startup, and, 2) how do i make the top menu bar disappear    in full-screen mode without reverting to small-screen   

Re: [Freedos-user] New XFDOS FreeDOS distribution

2012-08-06 Thread escape
On 06.08.12 00:35, nospam wrote: yes, Robert also found that the ISO image will not run with VMware and VirtualPC. I had tested it with Bochs and that did work. I agree that you can use Bochs mainly for development because it is slow. I've tested image with VirtualBox and it runs just fine.

Re: [Freedos-user] New XFDOS FreeDOS distribution

2012-08-06 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 5:43 AM, escape esc...@front.ru wrote: I've tested image with VirtualBox and it runs just fine. Here's the screenshot: http://storage1.static.itmages.ru/i/12/0806/h_1344249650_5665269_44f958fd52.png Next step is to give it a try on my real boxes. I burned it

Re: [Freedos-user] How do I check a box in FreeDOS during installation?

2012-08-06 Thread David C. Kerber
FYI, the spacebar is also the way you check and uncheck with the keyboard in windows, and I believe Linux as well. -Original Message- From: Geoffrey van Wyk [mailto:geoffrey.van...@bernadine.biz] Sent: Monday, August 06, 2012 9:22 AM To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [Freedos-user] New XFDOS FreeDOS distribution

2012-08-06 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 5-8-2012 23:35, nospam schreef: yes, Robert also found that the ISO image will not run with VMware and VirtualPC. I had tested it with Bochs and that did work. I agree that you can use Bochs mainly for development because it is slow. QEMU might also be an option, faster than Bochs. Not

Re: [Freedos-user] New XFDOS FreeDOS distribution

2012-08-06 Thread dmccunney
On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 12:19 PM, Bernd Blaauw bbla...@home.nl wrote: Not tried [ http://qemu.weilnetz.de/w32/2012-06-28/ , QEMU v1.1 I think] yet, I'm too lazy to find out how to download an entire web directory in 1 go. Guess some FireFox extension should allow it. Spiderzilla used to, but

Re: [Freedos-user] How do I check a box in FreeDOS during installation?

2012-08-06 Thread Geoffrey van Wyk
I have been puzzled by ticking a checkbox in a GUI with the keyboard as well, but never bothered to find out, because I could always use the mouse. Thanks for the info. On 06/08/2012 16:12, David C. Kerber wrote: FYI, the spacebar is also the way you check and uncheck with the keyboard in

Re: [Freedos-user] How do I check a box in FreeDOS during installation?

2012-08-06 Thread Ralf A. Quint
At 10:18 AM 8/6/2012, Geoffrey van Wyk wrote: I have been puzzled by ticking a checkbox in a GUI with the keyboard as well, but never bothered to find out, because I could always use the mouse. What's a Biebermouse? This is DOS! LOL (btw, the space bar works for check boxes in Windows for

Re: [Freedos-user] New XFDOS FreeDOS distribution

2012-08-06 Thread nospam
I had an old Qemu installation from 2010 on my Windows XP machine. This did work: http://nanox-microwindows-nxlib-fltk-for-dos.googlecode.com/files/XFDOS-Qemu-Screenshot.PNG It was quite fast too. Since XFDOS sets up an XMS disk, you need to configure 32 MB memory or more. Also for FLTK you

Re: [Freedos-user] New XFDOS FreeDOS distribution

2012-08-06 Thread Robert Riebisch
Bernd Blaauw wrote: QEMU might also be an option, faster than Bochs. Not tried [ http://qemu.weilnetz.de/w32/2012-06-28/ , QEMU v1.1 I think] yet, I'm too lazy to find out how to download an entire web directory in 1 go. Guess some FireFox extension should allow it. I'm using