Re: [Freedos-user] freedo

From: Tom Ehlert Hello again, > Do you want to load FreeDOS High, UMB? there is no good reason (for normal use) to have ever DOS=HIGH,UMB disabled. if no HIGH or UMB memory is found, it is silently ignored. Tom

Re: [Freedos-user] freedo

From: Jerome Shidel 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

Re: [Freedos-user] freedo

From: Don Flowers --===6394739827726723462== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001a113eb1aa15bc0d0546c5f10d --001a113eb1aa15bc0d0546c5f10d Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable >are really multiple

Re: [Freedos-user] freedo

From: Tom Ehlert > Why not use the CHOICE option-a to let the user decide? because 99,9 % of all user have no need for SHARE. > I have a > menu system which is designed to be used on a network and requires share to be loaded are really multiple machines accessing the

Re: [Freedos-user] freedo

From: Rugxulo Hi, On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 3:20 PM, Jerome Shidel wrote: > > 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

Re: [Freedos-user] freedo

From: Tom Ehlert Hi, to reproduce this FIND problem, I tried to setup a new FD1.2 machine. what I did: download FD12LGC.ISO create a new virtual box machine with 512 MB disk use FD12LGC.ISO to boot the machine. boot machine. 'Unfortunately, this method of

Re: [Freedos-user] freedo

From: Don Flowers --===4356774747921422680== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=f403045ec2c69023cc0546c19105 --f403045ec2c69023cc0546c19105 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Why not use the CHOICE

Re: [Freedos-user] freedo

From: Jim Hall > On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 11:47 AM, Tom Ehlert wrote: >> >> to reproduce this FIND problem, I tried to setup a new FD1.2 machine. >> >> what I did: >> >> download FD12LGC.ISO >> >> create a new virtual box machine with 512 MB disk >> use

Re: [Freedos-user] freedo

From: Jim Hall > On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 11:47 AM, Tom Ehlert wrote: >> >> to reproduce this FIND problem, I tried to setup a new FD1.2 machine. >> >> what I did: >> >> download FD12LGC.ISO >> >> create a new virtual box machine with 512 MB disk >> use

Re: [Freedos-user] freedo

From: Jerome Shidel 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 remrCOd it

Re: [Freedos-user] freedo

From: Rugxulo Hi, On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 11:47 AM, Tom Ehlert wrote: > > to reproduce this FIND problem, I tried to setup a new FD1.2 machine. > > what I did: > > download FD12LGC.ISO > > create a new virtual box machine with 512 MB disk > use

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDO

From: "Nick B." In article

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDO

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Re: [Freedos-user] Freedo

From: Rugxulo Hi, On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 1:08 PM, Wolfgang ANdreas Heisele wrote: > > the howtos from pre 1.2 do not seem to work for 1.2. How and what configs need to be > changed to get a fixed ip adress in freedos 1.2? You mean in mTCP? Read the docs.

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDO

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Re: [Freedos-user] Freedo

From: Louis Santillan You want to scale the window resolution [0]. There are usually a few options/techniques to choose from. Look for scale or scaling. [0] https://www.vmware.com/support/ws4/doc/running_fit_guest_ws.html On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 11:28 AM, Gordon

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedo

From: Rugxulo Hi, On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 1:18 AM, Wolfgang ANdreas Heisele 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 kernel.sys in c:\fdos\bin\

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedo

From: Jerome Shidel > 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

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedo

From: Gordon You need to install VMWare tools in the guest to support resizing, and the tools are not available for DOS. On 01/05/2017 11:56 AM, Louis Santillan wrote: > You want to scale the window resolution [0]. There are usually a few > options/techniques to choose from.

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedo

From: Gordon 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 line? On 01/05/2017 12:02 PM, Ralf Quint wrote: > On 1/5/2017 11:28 AM, Gordon wrote: >>

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedo

From: Jerome Shidel > On Jan 2, 2017, at 2:18 AM, Wolfgang ANdreas Heisele 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 kernel.sys in c:\fdos\bin\

Re: [Freedos-user] freedo

From: Dimitris Zilaskos --===4049000903152666126== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001a114004b64325ba053a605bd1 --001a114004b64325ba053a605bd1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Hi, Thank you for the advice. I tried FDIMPLES, seem to show

Re: [Freedos-user] freedo

From: Rugxulo Hi, On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 5:46 PM, Dimitris Zilaskos wrote: > > Thank you for the advice. I tried FDIMPLES, seem to show everything > installed, but for some reason p7zip is missing from its list. I don't really recommend p7zip for heavy

Re: [Freedos-user] freedo

From: Dimitris Zilaskos --===2905593142841686751== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001a114b0aa08b4740053a6228e0 --001a114b0aa08b4740053a6228e0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Thank you for your replies. I think I must had the wrong cd

Re: [Freedos-user] freedo

From: Jerome Shidel 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

Re: [Freedos-user] freedo

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Re: [Freedos-user] freedo

From: Dimitris Zilaskos --===6441216991813819129== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001a114013c0e837f6053a385540 --001a114013c0e837f6053a385540 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Ok thanks. Would be awesome to have an option to get them

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedo

From: Rugxulo Hi, On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 7:00 AM, Wolfgang ANdreas Heisele wrote: > > I am new to freedos and got to this mailing list through this youtube video: > > Where I wrote the follwing question: > > Nice video. I got that far, but I was really

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedo

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Re: [Freedos-user] Freedo

From: Jos|- Antonio Hello Wolfgang, also you can use gparted live: http://gparted.org/ to create a partition before FreeDos 1.2 can be installed. Best in a clean virtualized partition :). KolibriOS works great. It will be also great if FreeDos and KolibriOS could share

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedo

From: "Matej Horvat" On Thu, 10 Nov 2016 18:51:00 +0100, Mike Powell wrote: > Well, duuuh on my part. For some reason, I was thinking of some hardware > contraption that allowed a USB stick to be identified as a floppy drive, > making it

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDO

From: "Jerome E. Shidel Jr." > On Nov 3, 2016, at 6:24 PM, Louis Santillan wrote: > > WOW! Awesome work here. Thanks for posting this! > Thanks. I see there might be a possible version regression with a couple base packages. I will have to look into

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedo

From: Ralf Quint On 11/8/2016 7:38 AM, Mike Powell wrote: > > For the uneducated, what is a "USB floppy drive"? A floppy drive connected via a USB port... Google it and you will find it, for example https://www.amazon.com/Sabrent-External-Floppy-Drive-FL-UDRV/dp/B00E9MD700

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDO

From: Louis Santillan In the DEVELOPMENT group, some of the versions are not the latest for the GNU packages [0] available. DJDEV 2.05 = djdev205 GCC 6.2.0 = gcc620b G++ 6.2.0 = gpp620b GObjC 6.2.0 = objc620b GDB 7.11 = gdb711b Make 4.2.1= mak421b Binutils 2.27 = bnu227b

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDO

From: Louis Santillan You (mostly) follow the documentation here [0]. Specifically you want a line like below for a 2MB (2048KB) EMS page space: 2?DEVICE=C:\FDOS\BIN\JEMM386.EXE X=TEST I=TEST I=B000-B7FF NOVME NOINVLPG 2048 2?DEVICE=C:\FDOS\BIN\JEMM386.EXE X=TEST I=TEST

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDO

From: Louis Santillan WOW! Awesome work here. Thanks for posting this! On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 1:58 PM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. wrote: > Have you wondered exactly what has been updated in the new FreeDOS release since version 1.1? > > Check it out

Re: [Freedos-user] freedo

Hello again, > Do you want to load FreeDOS High, UMB? there is no good reason (for normal use) to have ever DOS=HIGH,UMB disabled. if no HIGH or UMB memory is found, it is silently ignored. Tom -- Check out the

Re: [Freedos-user] freedo

Hi, On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 3:20 PM, Jerome Shidel wrote: > > 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. > > Either of these

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

>are really multiple machines accessing the same files at the same >time? umm-yes as a matter of fact one upstairs and one downstairs. On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 9:17 AM, Tom Ehlert wrote: > > > Why not use the CHOICE option to let the user decide? > > because 99,9 % of

Re: [Freedos-user] freedo

Why not use the CHOICE option to let the user decide? I have a menu system which is designed to be used on a network and requires share to be loaded IMHO this should be used of the FDNET option as well to allow users to copy their specific packet driver to the /FDOS/NETWORK dir to avoid an error

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] freedo

Originally to: ALL > On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 11:47 AM, Tom Ehlert wrote: >> >> to reproduce this FIND problem, I tried to setup a new FD1.2 machine. >> >> what I did: >> >> download FD12LGC.ISO >> >> create a new virtual box machine with 512 MB disk >> use FD12LGC.ISO to

Re: [Freedos-user] freedo

Originally to: ALL Hi, to reproduce this FIND problem, I tried to setup a new FD1.2 machine. what I did: download FD12LGC.ISO create a new virtual box machine with 512 MB disk use FD12LGC.ISO to boot the machine. boot machine. 'Unfortunately, this method of installation is not supported on

Re: [Freedos-user] freedo

Originally to: ALL Hi, On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 11:47 AM, Tom Ehlert wrote: > > to reproduce this FIND problem, I tried to setup a new FD1.2 machine. > > what I did: > > download FD12LGC.ISO > > create a new virtual box machine with 512 MB disk > use FD12LGC.ISO to boot