Hi, On Wed, Aug 2, 2023 at 2:29 AM Paul Edwards via Freedos-devel <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > > FreeDOS should run on 8086, both kernel and shell. If it doesn't, > > that's a bug or omission. > > Are you sure? I thought I was told that the standard > distribution relied on an 80386.
Jerome's work on the distribution overall (and a lot of software packages) requires 386. But the basics should still run on 8086. > > ke20xx_32.zip : binaries for 8086, FAT16, FAT32 > > I got this, and then renamed my kernel.sys to kernel.old, > > Regardless, I then burned the image onto the CF and > booted on the Book 8088 and I got the same problem. > "loading freedos" followed by incessant beeping. It's probably something else, but I don't know what. > > The very bare minimum (besides boot sector) is kernel and shell. What > > other pieces of DOS software did you need or want? > > Oh I see - thanks. I need fdisk and format and more > and doslfn and possibly xcopy, but it doesn't support > lfn, and zip and unzip. DOSLFN is 386. (You could maybe reassemble StarLFN for 8086 and use LONGNAME.DAT files to store the LFNs, but it'd be slow.) Zip and Unzip do have 16-bit versions, but I think FreeDOS normally ships the 32-bit versions. Check here for 16-bit versions (if needed): * http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/file/info-zip/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
