Re: [Freedos-user] Games

> On Jun 20, 2016, at 3:04 PM, userbeit...@abwesend.de wrote: > > Why? > Every emulator or VM I know about will quickly install any operating > system from a virtual CD-ROM. So if you just assign the FreeDOS-ISO as > the virtual ATAPI-CDROM you will very easily install it to the virtual >

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2+ Preview 12 - Now with Dimples

> On Feb 13, 2016, at 6:19 PM, Don Flowers wrote: > > I booted from the CD not USB , but my extreme test machine has 3 hard drives > wth various "C" drives among them. Even with XOSL hiding partitions, I think > the installer may not be prepared for setting drives beyond

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 Preview 11

Hello Don, > On Feb 3, 2016, at 1:47 PM, Don Flowers wrote: > > Day after observation: I am getting an A: drive redirect when I try to copy > files by "COPY" command. One file will copy to the desired directory and then > it searches for the A: drive. Would this be a

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 Preview 11

for me :^) and > setting an absolute path for C:\;C:\FDOS;C:\FDOS\BIN > > > Interesting, if changing the chaning them path variable order fixed the issue. It would not be a bug or other issue in the installer. Thanks for the update. Jerome > > >> On Wed,

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2+ Preview 12 - Now with Dimples

> On Feb 23, 2016, at 3:47 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > > > Hi Jerome, > >>> - user has another OS and DOS must not kill the boot menu without asking >>> >>> - user made a virtual computer for DOS, the disk contains nothing at all >> >> - user has some old hardware they want

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2+ Preview 12 - Now with Dimples

t;> http://up.lod.bz/FDI >> >> >> On Feb 19, 2016, at 1:51 PM, Louis Santillan <lpsan...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hey all, >> >> I plan to do another test run with the hardware I have. 1.2p12 or 13, >> which ever is available. >> >

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Installer Preview 14 - The Final Chapter.

Hello Don, > Jerome, this is not an installer issue, it occurs following an otherwise > successful install and reboot. I think it is a DOSLFN/Memory Management/SHELL > issue. It's a bug that has been around for a long time and the only way I > have gotten rid of it is to forgo DOSLFN. > > On

Re: [Freedos-user] FDI Preview 15, update 2

> On Apr 10, 2016, at 12:59 PM, Don Flowers wrote: > > I just tried an install with FDI-SLiM.img from my GRUB2 boot menu and it was > super fast. I forgot to go to the advanced menu (maybe the final should have > the options following the language menu?); so my GRUB got

Re: [Freedos-user] FDI Preview 15, update 2

> On Apr 10, 2016, at 12:59 PM, Don Flowers wrote: > > I just tried an install with FDI-SLiM.img from my GRUB2 boot menu and it was > super fast. I forgot to go to the advanced menu (maybe the final should have > the options following the language menu?); so my GRUB got

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 BETA, Coming soon--ish.

Hello Eric, > please explain what goes wrong with Dosbox, Freecom and V8: Basically, the current DOSBox doesn't really support Stdin/out I/O redirection. It mostly seems to work once FreeCOM is loaded. However, testing if input is waiting on Stdin, it always replies yes when the data is piped

[Freedos-user] DOSBox I/O issue follow-up

Hello Eric (and anyone else who is interested), Here is a little proof-of-concept demonstration of the issue regarding I/O redirection in DOSBox. ; begin example code ; NASM 2.11.08 for DOS ; Jerome Shidel, Public Domain. use16 cpu 8086 org 0x100 StdPassThru: mov ah, 0x0b; DOS

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Installer Preview 14 - The Final Chapter.

Hello Don > On Mar 8, 2016, at 1:17 PM, Don Flowers wrote: > > Just did an install on my multiple Hard drive/multiple DOS/FreeDOS DC5700. I > used the advanced option and have nothing bad to report (except that *#$% > "Error reading from drive A: DOS area drive not ready

Re: [Freedos-user] Boot FreeDOS (Black screen/blinking cursor)

Hello Matthew, Try using FreeDOS 1.2 Installer Preview Release 15 (FDI). http://up.lod.bz/FDI Use either the SLIM or full USB images. SLIM contains BASE and FULL installs and is under 32MB. The Full USB image contains those plus about 450MB of extra packages that are not automatically

Re: [Freedos-user] FDI Preview 15, Update 3

Hello, > On Apr 22, 2016, at 6:02 AM, Mateusz Viste wrote: > > Hi, > > I tested FDI, and - in general - it looks really awesome. I list below > all my remarks. > > *** 1st Screen *** > "Please select you language." - this should be "youR language" This has already been

Re: [Freedos-user] FDI Preview 16

Hello Don, > On Apr 30, 2016, at 5:52 AM, Don Flowers wrote: > > Thanks Jerome, > Will be testing this weekend with feedback on Monday. :-) > > I just have to add this today about PGME - I have several vintage Menu > systems, but what you have done here is really an

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 needs you

> So you just want us to weed out the license-incompatible ones?? That is only part of what is needed. Some packages have wrong or old license information. For example, some have switched from GPL to BSD. Others, are listed as GPL, but are actually GPLv2. And so on. >> base\ctmouse > >

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 - Preview 16

> On Apr 19, 2016, at 11:47 AM, Jim Hall wrote: > >> On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 9:28 AM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. >> wrote: >> >> Hello All, >> >> At present there are two USB of FDI, 32MB and 512MB. >> >> Who would like the 512MB version expanded to 2GB in

Re: [Freedos-user] FDI Preview 15, Update 3

On Apr 16, 2016, at 7:45 PM, Jim Hall wrote: > > Putting on my "technical editor" hat, I'm suggesting these fixes and edits > for 1.2-pre16. I know these may seem like trivial edits, but I think they > make the installer more professional. > > > 1. Lists should be

Re: [Freedos-user] FDI Preview 15, Update 3

> On Apr 17, 2016, at 8:46 PM, Jim Hall wrote: > > Hi Jerome > > I'll email you offlist with a screenshot of the "Partitioner" typo. Ah, that was an old typo I corrected a little while back. It occurred when I reworded that option from "Launch Partitioner..." to

Re: [Freedos-user] Which freedos on 486

Did you change the installed config? It uses himemx as well. Sent from my iPhone, ignore bad sentence structures, grammatical errors and incorrect spell-corrected words. > On Jul 18, 2016, at 3:46 PM, Dimitris Zilaskos wrote: > > Thank you all for your suggestions. What

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos 1.2 archivers

; wrote: > > Ok thanks. Would be awesome to have an option to get them installed. > > Cheers, > > Dimitris > >> On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 5:52 PM, Jerome Shidel <jer...@shidel.net> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> > On Aug 16, 2016, at 11:38 AM

Re: [Freedos-user] questions on FreeDOS

> Secondly, although this isn't super helpful advice (and yet > freedos.org does imply gaming), I don't think VirtualBox is ideal for > games. It just lacks some compatibility that some games need. Maybe > it'll work for some of your use cases, but normally it is suggested to > use (non-FreeDOS)

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 & VirtualBox: Wiki updated

> On Feb 1, 2017, at 11:53 AM, Ulrich Hansen wrote: > > I have updated the pages at: > > http://wiki.freedos.org/wiki/index.php/VirtualBox > Looks pretty good. :-) Just one minor note you may wish to add. FDIMPLES is

Re: [Freedos-user] Rolling up from 1.1?

> On Feb 8, 2017, at 4:57 PM, David McMackins wrote: > > Call me a noob, but is there a preferred way to upgrade from FreeDOS 1.1 > to 1.2 while keeping configurations intact? I haven't personally loaded > the new installer yet, but I wanted to check before I tried,

Re: [Freedos-user] Bug? Confusing boot options in FreeDOS 1.2

Bug? Not really. Is it correct? Not even close. You are correct that there are at least a couple issues with the FDCONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT file. Also, #2 should not say EMM386 when it uses JEMM386. The current 1.2 config files are based on a clean install of 1.1 into VMware Fusion. Then

Re: [Freedos-user] Rolling up from 1.1?

Also, if you run the installer in advanced mode. You can choose not to replace your config files, use zip to backup and other stuff. But, generally I recommend just running the install in normal mode. If you quit the installer and run it as "setup adv" , it will run in advanced mode. You can

Re: [Freedos-user] freedo

Hello again, I do agree that it makes little sense to automatically load SHARE with boot config option 2. After all, no other boot option starts SHARE. Also, only a couple situations require its use. Mostly, those would be running a multitasking system like Windows or exporting network

Re: [Freedos-user] freedo

Tom, > what purpose is SHARE supposed to have? > SHARE is useful when the machine is running as a server, or with > windows (or any other multitasking OS). > > don't install this. You are probably correct that it should load it by default. I rem’d it out for future releases. Jerome

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos 1.2 LSM files without CR

Rugxulo, It is even worse than you suggested for Turbo Pascal compiled programs for LF only files. The entire built-in text I/O system can't go anywhere near such files. If it does, you end up with an infinite display loop crash.

Re: [Freedos-user] Borland Pascal unhandled exception...

FYI, there is a typographical error with option 2. It says EMM386. But, it uses JEMM386. > On Feb 10, 2017, at 1:57 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > > > Hi Geneb, about your Borland Pascal 7 Problem in FreeDOS 1.2: > >> When I run "bp" which is the protected mode compiler, I get

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos 1.2 LSM files without CR

Eric, You and Tom are correct. But, so is Rugxulo. Is it a problem? As far as I know, only three programs every touch the LSM files. FDNPKG, FDINST and FDIMPLES. Other than install and remove, I don’t think FDNPKG & FDINST do anything with them. FDIMPLES uses them along with other files and

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos 1.2 archivers

and TAR. But, you need to scroll down to see it. > > Best regards, > > Dimitris > >> On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 12:25 AM, Jerome Shidel <jer...@shidel.net> wrote: >> If you run the installer in advanced mode, you can add them at installation >> by using

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos 1.2 archivers

Hello, > On Aug 16, 2016, at 11:38 AM, Dimitris Zilaskos wrote: > > Hi, > > I did a full freedos 1.2 installation but not all archivers were installed. > While I got them from the CD eventually from the ARCHIVERS directory I was > wondering if that is supposed to happen.

Re: [Freedos-user] Creating a DOS bootable USB drive

> On Feb 26, 2017, at 5:34 PM, Rugxulo wrote: > > Hi, > > On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 8:10 AM, Wolfram Volpi wrote: >> >> I am new to FreeDOS and could use your help. >> I am trying to create a DOS bootable USB drive in for a BIOS update. >> I have done

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Install

Also, try to just install BASE and not FULL. You can install the other packages after the install completes. > On Jan 10, 2017, at 4:59 PM, Ira Minor wrote: > > Try using the Legacy Installer CD rather than the Standard one. > > Ira > > irami...@gmail.com 805-212-0588

Re: [Freedos-user] Preload and start installer from installation target?

> On Dec 30, 2016, at 11:44 AM, userbeit...@abwesend.de wrote: > > Hi, fellow FreeDOS users! I need your help. > > > I have an original Intel 80486 with 50 MHz that I want to try FreeDOS > on. I still haven't found the time so far an my first attempt came to an > early halt because I

Re: [Freedos-user] HIMEMX.EXE - Invalid Opcode

> On Jan 4, 2017, at 9:16 AM, Tony Richardson wrote: > > I am having exactly the same problem (Invalid Opcode at HIMEMX line) with a > laptop from the same era. FreeDOS 1.1 installed without problems. I was > using the 1.2 standard CD. I plan to try the 1.2

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.2 font with 4k monitor

> On Jan 5, 2017, at 8:30 PM, Ralf Quint wrote: > >> On 1/5/2017 5:24 PM, Gordon wrote: >> That's what I was wondering -- can you install a larger font to get >> larger characters, or will the window still be the same size so you just >> get less lines and characters per

Re: [Freedos-user] Simple guide for networking FreeDOS 1.2 in a VirtualBox VM ?

> On Dec 25, 2016, at 4:57 PM, William Dudley wrote: > > Is there a simple guide for networking FreeDOS 1.2 in a VirtualBox VM ? No guide needed under VirtualBox Install the FDNET package and reboot. If you downloaded a CD version and did a FULL (not BASE) install, just:

Re: [Freedos-user] Simple guide for networking FreeDOS 1.2 in a VirtualBox VM ?

William, > On Dec 26, 2016, at 12:16 PM, William Dudley wrote: > > Jerome, > > Thanks, that was useful. It would be better if it also discussed the settings > needed in VirtualBox. I figured it out eventually but it took me a bit of > googling > to figure out. > > Bill

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 and DOSBox

How can I add the power of FreeDOS to my DOSBox? Well, here you go. Keep all of the flexibility that DOSBox provides. Yet, add the power of the FreeDOS Command Shell and other FreeDOS utilities. The FreeDOS installer supports DOSBox. Please note, this is not a pure OS install. But, a special

Re: [Freedos-user] Simple guide for networking FreeDOS 1.2 in a VirtualBox VM ?

Made a quick YouTube video of doing a VirtualBox install and how to add networking support. https://youtu.be/k0sP1VAo0D8 -- Developer Access Program for Intel Xeon Phi Processors Access to Intel Xeon Phi processor-based

Re: [Freedos-user] Fw: Freedos 1.2 Network with fix ip

Rugxulo is correct. In 1.2, the AUTOEXEC.BAT checks for the existence of the %DOSDIR%\BIN\fdnet.bat file. If it is found, it is run to attempt to automatically start networking. The fdnet.bat and the %DOSDIR%\NETWORK directory provide all of the required programs and files to get networking

Re: [Freedos-user] boot floppy disk image too big for a disk

A 1.44MB 3.5” DS HD floppy disk is 1,474,560 bytes when formatted. (2MB unformatted) It used 512 byte sectors, 18 sectors per track, 80 tracks per side and is/was a two sided media. 512 * 18 * 80 * 2 = 1474560 / 1024 = 1.44MB floppy. More information on this can be found at

Re: [Freedos-user] boot floppy disk image too big for a disk

> On Mar 23, 2017, at 11:56 PM, Felix Miata wrote: > > I just looked inside http://www.freedos.org/download/download/FD12FLOPPY.zip > "boot floppy", and a 3.5" 1.44M floppy. My floppy has 1457664 total bytes, > 2847 > 512 byte sectors. The image downloaded is 1474560

Re: [Freedos-user] boot floppy disk image too big for a disk

> On Mar 24, 2017, at 6:40 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > > > Hi Dennis, > >> The 486 that I plan to use FreeDOS on currently‎ has MS-DOS 6.22 as >> its only OS. My plan is to completely replace it but keep all my >> installed programs. The SCSI drivers are all in C:\SCSI and I

Re: [Freedos-user] Without DVD-ROM, USB working... install it from the HD?

> On Mar 25, 2017, at 5:00 PM, Aleksei Ivan wrote: > > My USB ports are NOT working too. I have only to work with a installation > partition on this netbook. > Well, it is always tricky to install an OS to a computer with a single drive, no USB, no CD, no Floppy. It

Re: [Freedos-user] Creating a DOS bootable USB drive

Some Windows users like using utilities like Rufus ( https://rufus.akeo.ie ) to create their bootable USB media. But, as a non-Windows user, I don’t know much about it. -- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of

Re: [Freedos-user] bsum - compute BSD checksums of your files

Less than 256 bytes of code. Over 2 Megabytes of controversy. Shame on you Mateusz! :-) All joking aside, from what I gather, your bsum is only meant to verify local files were copied correctly from one machine to another. Most forms of checksums should be sufficient for that task. Sure a

[Freedos-user] V8Power Tools -- Update

Hello all, I just released an update to V8Power Tools. It has some general improvements to a couple tools. Also, it includes a brand new utility called veach. veach can be used for processing lists of items or commands. Here are a couple example usages: You have a directory full of

Re: [Freedos-user] upgrade my PC from FD 1.1 to FD 1.2

Hello, > On Aug 10, 2017, at 12:59 PM, Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 7:11 PM, Jerome Shidel <jer...@shidel.net> wrote: >> >> Just replacing the COMMAND and SYS files won’t really give you 1.2. It would >>

Re: [Freedos-user] upgrade my PC from FD 1.1 to FD 1.2 RE: to Rugxulo AUG 12, 2017

> On Aug 12, 2017, at 7:32 PM, Pierre LaMontagne wrote: > > (I know it's the same thing, but it's easier to me to only have to look in > Sound for relevant sound/music tools than scroll through a list of hundreds > of programs, even if sorted / ordered.) > > For me too,

Re: [Freedos-user] (Upgrade FD 1.1 to FD 1.2) RE to Jerome on AUG 10, 2013

> On Aug 10, 2017, at 11:17 AM, Pierre LaMontagne wrote: > > > /Jerome said:/ > > Take a look at the software comparison chart on the official FreeDOS software > repository. > > I looked at the rather extensive chart (thanx, BTW.) I was hoping you could > clear-up a

[Freedos-user] V8Power Tools

Hello all, Just wanted to let you know I added a new feature to the VFDUTIL.COM utility in V8PT yesterday. Basically, it will search the system PATH directories for a given filespec and output all matching files. If it is not found, there is no output and it terminates with an errorlevel.

Re: [Freedos-user] V8Power Tools -- Update

Hello Paolo, > On Aug 1, 2017, at 6:37 AM, Paolo Vincenzo Olivo wrote: > > Hi Jerome, > I've just tried your veach.com utility and it looks like it shall really > come in handy! I was missing a program capable of appending a command to a > sorted list (like a | in Unix ) .

Re: [Freedos-user] V8Power Tools -- Update

Hi Tom, > On Aug 1, 2017, at 10:27 AM, Tom Ehlert wrote: > > >>> Hi Jerome, >>> I've just tried your veach.com utility and it looks like it shall really >>> come in handy! I was missing a program capable of appending a command to a >>> sorted list (like a | in Unix )

Re: [Freedos-user] upgrade my PC from FD 1.1 to FD 1.2

Just replacing the COMMAND and SYS files won’t really give you 1.2. It would just be 1.1 an upgraded kernel. Take a look at the software comparison chart on the official FreeDOS software repository. http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/repositories/1.2/pkg-html/comparison.html

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Software Repositories Update

I just weeded out a couple of packages that showed up in the RSS feed that had not been updated in a while. The showed up because they had recently had some METADATA corrections. Now that most of the packages should have correct METADATA, this type of corrections should be rare going forward. I

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS Software Repositories Update.

Hello again everyone, I just finished adding some new stuff to the fdrepo.sh Software Repository Management Utility. These new features added support for automatic RSS feed creation and updating. It automatically adds any new or updated packages into the feed. The Official software

Re: [Freedos-user] (sort of) new user with boot issues

Hi Curtis, Since you are using a multi-boot system, there is something you will probably want to NOT do during the installation of FreeDOS 1.2. You won't want to the boot sector overwritten. So, be sure to run the installer in Advanced Mode and tell it not to do it. It makes a backup of the

Re: [Freedos-user] Creating a DOS bootable USB drive

From: Jerome Shidel <jer...@shidel.net> Some Windows users like using utilities like Rufus ( https://rufus.akeo.ie ) to create their bootable USB media. But, as a non-Windows user, I donrCOt know much about it. --

Re: [Freedos-user] boot floppy disk image too big for a disk

From: Jerome Shidel <jer...@shidel.net> > On Mar 23, 2017, at 11:56 PM, Felix Miata <mrma...@earthlink.net> wrote: > > I just looked inside http://www.freedos.org/download/download/FD12FLOPPY.zip > "boot floppy", and a 3.5" 1.44M floppy. My floppy has 14576

Re: [Freedos-user] boot floppy disk image too big for a disk

From: Jerome Shidel <jer...@shidel.net> > On Mar 24, 2017, at 6:40 PM, Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de> wrote: > > > Hi Dennis, > >> The 486 that I plan to use FreeDOS on currentlyrCA has MS-DOS 6.22 as >> its only OS. My plan is to completely replace i

Re: [Freedos-user] Without DVD-ROM, USB working... install it from the

From: Jerome Shidel <jer...@shidel.net> --===0102739976113590580== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=Apple-Mail-1ED041EA-CFF0-4522-832C-BB10496C594B Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --Apple-Mail-1ED041EA-CFF0-4522-832C-BB10496C594B Content-Type: text

Re: [Freedos-user] boot floppy disk image too big for a disk

From: Jerome Shidel <jer...@shidel.net> > On Mar 24, 2017, at 6:15 PM, Dennis Fenton <dwf...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The 486 that I plan to use FreeDOS on currentlyrCA has MS-DOS 6.22 as its only OS. My plan is to completely replace it but keep all my installed programs. The

Re: [Freedos-user] boot floppy disk image too big for a disk

From: Jerome Shidel <jer...@shidel.net> A 1.44MB 3.5rCY DS HD floppy disk is 1,474,560 bytes when formatted. (2MB unformatted) It used 512 byte sectors, 18 sectors per track, 80 tracks per side and is/was a two sided media. 512 * 18 * 80 * 2 = 1474560 / 1024 = 1.44MB floppy. More infor

Re: [Freedos-user] bsum - compute BSD checksums of your files

From: Jerome Shidel <jer...@shidel.net> Less than 256 bytes of code. Over 2 Megabytes of controversy. Shame on you Mateusz! :-) All joking aside, from what I gather, your bsum is only meant to verify local files were copied correctly from one machine to another. Most forms of checksums

Re: [Freedos-user] overflooded by old emails

> On May 7, 2017, at 2:11 PM, cc...@iglou.com wrote: > > Close, I think it was a configuration error on my part. I changed e-mail > address to one on my own server and the messages burped from my new one. > Sorry for the error. I can't speak for everyone else. But, as for me, no big deal. It

Re: [Freedos-user] overflooded by old emails

> On May 7, 2017, at 10:43 AM, Jim Hall wrote: > > Some email address was playing back old messages, don't know why. I > unsubscribed the email address from the list. Well, here is my guess on the event. There are many sites that mirror the FreeDOS mailing list archives.

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.

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Re: [Freedos-user] Simple

From: Jerome Shidel <jer...@shidel.net> > On Dec 25, 2016, at 4:57 PM, William Dudley <wfdud...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Is there a simple guide for networking FreeDOS 1.2 in a VirtualBox VM ? No guide needed under VirtualBox Install the FDNET package and reboot. If you do

Re: [Freedos-user] Simple

From: Jerome Shidel <jer...@shidel.net> William, > On Dec 26, 2016, at 12:16 PM, William Dudley <wfdud...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Jerome, > > Thanks, that was useful. It would be better if it also discussed the settings > needed in VirtualBox. I figured it out e

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedo

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Re: [Freedos-user] Preloa

From: Jerome Shidel <jer...@shidel.net> > On Dec 30, 2016, at 11:44 AM, userbeit...@abwesend.de wrote: > > Hi, fellow FreeDOS users! I need your help. > > > I have an original Intel 80486 with 50 MHz that I want to try FreeDOS > on. I still haven't found the time so f

Re: [Freedos-user] freedo

From: Jerome Shidel <jer...@shidel.net> Hello, > On Aug 16, 2016, at 11:38 AM, Dimitris Zilaskos <dimitr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > I did a full freedos 1.2 installation but not all archivers were installed. While I got them from the CD eventually fro

Re: [Freedos-user] freedo

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Re: [Freedos-user] Freedo

From: Jerome Shidel <jer...@shidel.net> > On Jan 2, 2017, at 2:18 AM, Wolfgang ANdreas Heisele <aheis...@web.de> wrote: > > I have made a small video to show my issue with freedos 1.2 and syslinux. After installing it freedos does not boot because it is looking for kern

Re: [Freedos-user] HIMEMX

From: Jerome Shidel <jer...@shidel.net> > On Jan 4, 2017, at 9:16 AM, Tony Richardson <richardson.t...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I am having exactly the same problem (Invalid Opcode at HIMEMX line) with a laptop from the same era. FreeDOS 1.1 installed without problems.

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDO

From: Jerome Shidel <jer...@shidel.net> --===04976675438== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=Apple-Mail-635D6F99-3AC3-4209-A289-0E2838A15E36 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --Apple-Mail-635D6F99-3AC3-4209-A289-0E2838A15E36 Content-Type: text

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedo

From: Jerome Shidel <jer...@shidel.net> > On Jan 5, 2017, at 8:30 PM, Ralf Quint <freedos...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 1/5/2017 5:24 PM, Gordon wrote: >> That's what I was wondering -- can you install a larger font to get >> larger characters, or will the

Re: [Freedos-user] Fw: Fr

From: Jerome Shidel <jer...@shidel.net> Rugxulo is correct. In 1.2, the AUTOEXEC.BAT checks for the existence of the %DOSDIR%\BIN\fdnet.bat file. If it is found, it is run to attempt to automatically start networking. The fdnet.bat and the %DOSDIR%\NETWORK directory provide all of the re

Re: [Freedos-user] freedo

From: Jerome Shidel <jer...@shidel.net> Tom, > what purpose is SHARE supposed to have? > SHARE is useful when the machine is running as a server, or with > windows (or any other multitasking OS). > > don't install this. You are probably correct that it should load it b

Re: [Freedos-user] freedo

From: Jerome Shidel <jer...@shidel.net> Hello again, I do agree that it makes little sense to automatically load SHARE with boot config option 2. After all, no other boot option starts SHARE. Also, only a couple situations require its use. Mostly, those would be running a multitasking

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 & VirtualBox: Wiki updated

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Re: [Freedos-user] verification checksums should be served overhttps

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Re: [Freedos-user] Rolling up from 1.1?

From: Jerome Shidel <jer...@shidel.net> > On Feb 8, 2017, at 4:57 PM, David McMackins <cont...@mcmackins.org> wrote: > > Call me a noob, but is there a preferred way to upgrade from FreeDOS 1.1 > to 1.2 while keeping configurations intact? I haven't personally loaded

Re: [Freedos-user] Bug? Confusing boot options in FreeDOS 1.2

From: Jerome Shidel <jer...@shidel.net> Bug? Not really. Is it correct? Not even close. You are correct that there are at least a couple issues with the FDCONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT file. Also, #2 should not say EMM386 when it uses JEMM386. The current 1.2 config files are based on a

Re: [Freedos-user] Rolling up from 1.1?

From: Jerome Shidel <jer...@shidel.net> Also, if you run the installer in advanced mode. You can choose not to replace your config files, use zip to backup and other stuff. But, generally I recommend just running the install in normal mode. If you quit the installer and run it as &quo

Re: [Freedos-user] Borland Pascal unhandled exception...

From: Jerome Shidel <jer...@shidel.net> FYI, there is a typographical error with option 2. It says EMM386. But, it uses JEMM386. > On Feb 10, 2017, at 1:57 PM, Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de> wrote: > > > Hi Geneb, about your Borland Pascal 7 Problem in FreeDOS 1.2: &g

Re: [Freedos-user] Creating a DOS bootable USB drive

From: Jerome Shidel <jer...@shidel.net> > On Feb 26, 2017, at 5:34 PM, Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 8:10 AM, Wolfram Volpi <wolf_vo...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> >> I am new to FreeDOS and could use your help. >

Re: [Freedos-user] Some driver updates

I gave a lot of thought to the issue of “Installed” and “required” free space for the batch based FDI in FreeDOS 1.2. With the amount of additional overhead and complexity it would require, I decided it was not worth the effort at present. Base size, Base + sources size, Full size, Full+

Re: [Freedos-user] Some driver updates

>> On Nov 7, 2017, at 12:20 PM, Robert Riebisch wrote: >> >> Hi Jerome, >> >> I gave a lot of thought to the issue of “Installed” and “required” free >> space for the batch based FDI in FreeDOS 1.2. With the amount of additional >> overhead and complexity it would

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos installation disk space requirements - was: Some driver updates

I see a lot of assume this, assume that, plus a little of roughly this... Maybe the installer should just assume FULL install + sources + (2x) old OS backup + 1-5MB safety margin at startup. If there is not that much space, tell user the error and stop. Like several other dangerous

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos installation disk space requirements - was: Some driver updates

> On Nov 8, 2017, at 2:40 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > > > Hi Jerome, > >> Maybe the installer should just assume FULL install + sources > > Not really. Almost nobody installs all sources at the same time > and I would not even want the option in the installer: Instead, > I

Re: [Freedos-user] NASM update (and disk repairs)

Hello, Also, NASM has very good multi-platform support. It has binaries for Mac, Linux, DOS and some others. You can even cross compile easily. For example, create a dos COM executable on a Mac. http://www.nasm.us/ Unfortunately, no arm support. For that you would probably want GAS. (GNU

Re: [Freedos-user] NASM update (and disk repairs)

> On Dec 9, 2017, at 12:05 PM, Dale E Sterner wrote: > > An assembler might be useful if I can learn how to use it. > Downloaded both. What does "upx" mean? UPX is an executable file compressor. https://upx.github.io/ > > cheers > DS > > > > On Sat, 9 Dec 2017

Re: [Freedos-user] fdnpackage update on new install on virtualbox.

Hello, I’m wondering if the package LST files were not updated correctly during installation. Under your main FreeDOS directory there is a sub directory called PACKAGES. These are simple text files that list the relevant files for that package. If you haven’t already updated the packages,

Re: [Freedos-user] Status of BTTR Forum?

> On Jun 12, 2018, at 4:00 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > > > Hi people, the whole bttr-software.de website no > longer shows me any content, just a login popup. > This has started a while ago, but is persisting. Not just you. I jumped over there and got the same thing. > Does that mean that the

Re: [Freedos-user] DISKCOPY to disk larger than image

> On Jun 29, 2018, at 9:17 AM, David McMackins wrote: > > DISKCOPY throws an error if I try to copy a 720k image to a 1.44M diskette. I > couldn't find a flag that could do it. I tried setting the size to 720, but > that threw a different error. Well, I wrote some tools for personal use

Re: [Freedos-user] SSH - unsupported remote protocol version

First, I would suggest visiting the Official FreeDOS Online Software Repository. http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/repositories/1.2/pkg-html/group-net.html At present, FDIMPLES is an offline only package manager and several packages (including sshdos & ssh2dos) have been

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