Re: [Freedos-user] Some driver updates

What do these "Jack's Drivers" actually do? On Friday, November 17, 2017, 1:59:11 AM MST, Eric Auer wrote: Hi Rugxulo, you are not going to make Jack any more kind by publicly sharing all private email details of your private fight... Jack does update drivers

Re: [Freedos-user] Some driver updates

512 meg? Luxury! My first hard drive was FIVE megabytes. A full height 5.25" MFM made by Tandon. I installed MS-DOS (3.1 IIRC) and all the software I had, mostly games. It was *half full*! Then I backed it up, onto 360K floppies. By the time I put the last disk on the stack, I was thinking

Re: [Freedos-user] challenging dos question.

No problem if you know the full path and file name. If you have ATTRIB you can hit it with -H to make it visible. https://www.computerhope.com/attribhl.htm On Saturday, December 2, 2017, 11:56:07 AM MST, Karen Lewellen wrote: Hi folks, its complicated. 

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

How can a .jar be run on Android or iOS? Android is built on some bastardized version of JAVA but AFAIK nobody has yet produced a fully functional JAVA Runtime Environment (JRE) for Android. As for iOS, Apple seems to hate JAVA with as much fury as they do Flash. Apple sayeth "#%#@ Flash and

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS workaround for hidden IDE controller?

Here's the FreeDOS image. Volume label is FREEDOS2012. Will mount in Quemu as a RAW image. Can't relocate the site I downloaded it from.https://anonfile.com/J8sau4d4bc/FreeDOS.rar The storage is an IDE Flash Disk, AKA Disk On Module. It has a 44 pin female header connector, same electrical

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS workaround for hidden IDE controller?

The CNC control software has to have EMS. Without it, it can't use any more than low memory. It's *old* software, capable of running on a 1981 vintage 5150 IBM PC. So I would assume it knows nothing of newer EMS types with their fancy features. If only Light Machines, then Intelitek, had

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS workaround for hidden IDE controller?

I just tried installing FreeDOS 1.2 Lite from a 512 meg USB drive onto a WYSE S30. Result? Failure. It boots and launches the setup. First is says there's no fixed disk, then is says drive D: is not partitioned. So I have it partition and reboot. Repeats this exactly the same. The BIOS *does*

[Freedos-user] Now it gets odd Re: FreeDOS workaround for hidden IDE controller?

I found an "MS-DOS 7.1" boot floppy image and *this one* had no problems booting the S30 with a USB floppy drive, wiping the DOM and creating a fresh partition with FDISK, then rebooting and using format c: /s NOW it's booted to a DOS prompt from the DOM. So I'll try FreeDOS again.. Nope.

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS workaround for hidden IDE controller?

gxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> wrote: Hi, On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 6:36 PM, Gregg Eshelman via Freedos-user <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > The workaround at the bottom of this page will have to be implemented in > FreeDOS in order to install it from USB. Writ

Re: [Freedos-user] Now it gets odd Re: FreeDOS workaround for hidden IDE controller?

I used CloneDisk to rip a RAW image of the booting DOM with FreeDOS. Mounted that with Qemu. Booted Qemu with the FreeDOS install image and installed FreeDOS to the image copied from the DOM. Then I used CloneDisk to write that image back to the DOM. "Missing Operating System". On

Re: [Freedos-user] Running FreeDOS floppy from a BIOS chip

If a way could be found to replace ThinOS on various models of WYSE thin clients, they'd be ideal platforms for an embedded DOS. ThinOS usually shares space in an extra large BIOS chip. Installing it might involve a bit of hacking to make the OS installer creator utility setup a USB flash drive

Re: [Freedos-user] Now it gets odd Re: FreeDOS workaround for hidden IDE controller?

I'm going to try using RMPrepUSB to put the FreeDOS USB install image onto a USB stick. Why? Because it's supposed to be able to be selected to emulate an A: floppy drive (or as C: or D:) instead of presenting itself as C: like the FreeDOS image does. Recall that the FreeDOS installer initially

Re: [Freedos-user] Now it gets odd Re: FreeDOS workaround for hidden IDE controller?

It was partitioned, with an MBR, accessible to Windows when connected to a USB to IDE adapter. Currently it's bootable to a DOS prompt. I used the "China DOS Union" DOS 7.1 boot floppy with a USB floppy drive to fdisk and format the DOM installed in the thin client. I could go ahead and put

Re: [Freedos-user] Windows 3.1 in 386 mode

What hardware? That of course needs an 80386 or newer CPU. Another thing is any drivers loaded in config.sys and autoexec.bat have to be compatible with 386 enhanced mode. The OAK CD-ROM driver and later MS-DOS MSCDEX should be compatible. IIRC old sound card drivers were pretty bad about being

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS workaround for hidden IDE controller?

I'm attempting to get some DOS onto a WYSE Sx0 thin client. The problem is right after the OS starts to load from the IDE flash module, the BIOS steps in and hides the IDE controller. So it comes up missing operating system. Boot from USB and it's there. I have a FreeDOS image for a 64 megabyte