Try linux.Linux is fun to mess with.
On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 8:53 AM, M Vrm <netraa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Well, I had sometimes problems.
> I had that laptop thing free and now because I have (in total with the
> laptop also counted) 2 laptops and 1 desktop I decided, because it was an
> old thing to use it for testing, exploring and playing around.
>
> But anyway, If I have no other thing to explore I install freedos on it.
> It is maybe bad for the HDD but it's free and old. I don't care :). But the
> problems I had (I have FDBASECD.ISO) where: I was looking for my USB (it
> didn't support that) so I typed every drive letter I could imagine it was
> on. But that was not very handy. This is the error:
>
> " ILLEGAL INSTRUCTION OCCURRED
> CS=0029 IP=8A53 SS=174C SP=368E DS=000 ES=174C
>
> EAX=00100008 EBX=0000003
> ECX=000006CE EDX=000039
> ESI=0000002 EDI=000014A5 EBP=000037A9
>
> Opcodes @CS:IP F0 75 03 E9 A8 04 83 7E
>
> Aborting program
>
> EMM386 - Unable to continue - please reboot="
>
> After the last "=" it where random number to fast to see.
> After reboot just fine.
>
> I pressed a key (no idea which one) and I got the answer "--" (flashing)
> and it was constantly beeping.
> After reboot just fine.
>
> After that (now) I booted it up.
> And I get the answer:
>
> "KERNEL.SYS KERNEL.SYS KERNEL.SYS KERNEL.SYS"
>
> It goes on with that until it filled the screen and then it goes further
> with doing that.
> After reboot not fine.
>
> Now the laptop stands in a cupboard (I mean something else but I don't
> know how it is named. I also can't find it and I'm on my mobile and I can't
> look it up. So if you want to know what I really mean translate (Dutch to
> English) "kast". Sorry for that)
> With a layer of dust waiting for an operating system (If you have one I
> like to hear :) )
>
> Maarten
> Op 31 aug. 2015 15:47 schreef "JAYDEN CHARBONNEAU" <
> jcharbonnea...@cpsge.org>:
>
> I have a 'lil HP from around the year 2000.It had windows XP on it,with a
>> 7 GB harddrive (It's a little netbook,which is why the HD is small).It used
>> to boot into FreeDOS perfectly (I would boot into a flashdrive and run
>> FORMAT /S on the HD).But,now,if I try to do that,it boots,with a bunch of
>> random ASCII characters on the screen.It will prompt me with ("Pr3ss F? $$!
>> 0 cont1nu3").Only the F1 key works.And pressing it simply repeats the
>> message.Then again,the problem only started AFTER I installed GRUB (for
>> linux).When I formatted my HD,I think I may have forgotten to remove
>> GRUB.Because JUST before I boot,the blue screen of GRUB flashes and
>> disappears almost instantly.
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 12:51 AM, M Vrm <netraa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I have an old laptop (for windows xp) which I used for many years, it
>>> has a 60gb hard drive and I have installed freedos many times.
>>>
>>> I have an answer on all of these:
>>>
>>> > Can FreeDOS be installed on a partition >2gb.
>>> > Will it work above the 2gb limit?
>>> > Will it boot from the second primary DOS partition on the same drive?
>>> > You get the idea.
>>>
>>> 1. Yes it can be installed very completely nothing missing etc. I have
>>> done this many times. I had to figure out how but now it's easy. It's not
>>> an other way for install.
>>>
>>> 2. It works (with fat32). It detects all the 60gbs. And works beautiful
>>> no errors , crashes etc.
>>>
>>> 3. Yes also tried it. It works from the second partition. But if you had
>>> windows xp on it, you can't use xp anymore until Freedos is deleted. It
>>> will completely "takeover" because freedos doesn't detect the other
>>> partition with xp on it so it won't let you boot that. Otherwise windows xp
>>> can't boot because XP won't show his boot manager, freedos uses that
>>> already.
>>>
>>> Sorry for my English as always.
>>>
>>> I'm Dutch
>>>
>>> I hope you can use it!
>>>
>>> Maarten
>>>
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