> On Nov 16, 2024, at 1:08 PM, Fritz Mueller via Freedos-devel > <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > OK, > here are some things that I noticed: > > fdauto.bat: > in about line 44, I already found it in FDT2408 (maybe earlier too): > ":NoCodePagerem keyboard settings" (followed by) > MKEYB GR > I found NO such goto label. Only "NoCodePage". Assume it is a typo (rem > keyboard settings)
This is most likely caused by the “new auto and config files”. The installer splices in those settings from other files. It could be a typo in one of many places, or simply a missing CR in one of those areas. Send me a copy of the installed version of FDAUTO which I could examine to locate the issue. > MKEYB GR: > On my old laptop there is no support for different characters, e.g. > backslash, pipe etc. Reason: version 0.52 of mkeyb requires the option /e for > keyboards with > more keys. Not sure what you are asking for here. Are you asking for the primary German keyboard layout to be changed? > > country.sys: > Hope FDT2412 and "upcoming version" will work now with german settings. There was the update to the Country.sys package. So, ? > > fdnpkg with virtualbox: > Works fine on an old real machine after I added the network driver. > On virtual box it actually has two different problems: > a)The first was that fdnpkg can be used, you can run checkupdates and install > etc., it starts with downloading the zip files till 100 percent - and then it > hangs. > It looks as if the unpacker or the installation routine has a problem. Most likely this is a regression issue with VirtualBox. Version 7.x has severe problems on this Mac Pro when trying to use FreeDOS. No client configurations seemed to help at all. While the install process worked fine and everything used by the installer worked. Most other programs would crash. No Idea why. I tried numerous config settings nothing helped. I ended up rolling back to VirtualBox 6.x and problems vanished. > b) NOW there are other messages: > Loading http://www.ibiblio.org > <http://www.ibiblio.org/>...blabla.../latest/sound... > Error. Invalid index file! Repository skipped. > An error occured while trying to load repository from tmp file... > Error code: 0 (eehmmm?) > and so on with next repository. Since switching over to the built-in indexing, there appears to be a slight issue regarding the creation of CRC32 data that is included in the index file. Probably either a minor config related problem or type somewhere. Somewhere, it was looking for the CRC32 and not crc32 binary. For now, I simply created a CRC32 symlink to crc32 and told it to rebuild the index. It should fix that problem. At some point when I have the time, I’ll dig into actually fixing the real issue. Should work now. > > > fdnpkg with qemu (with Windows Qemu manager 7.0) > > I ran a FULL installation in QEMU and got the message: NO PACKET DRIVER FOUND. Is it trying to start networking? Or, it this version of QEMU no being detected as QEMU? In other words, do you see a message from FDNET about not being supported on real hardware? > > The installation with Qemu manager offers several network drivers: > > Realtek 8139, NE2000PCI, Intel 82551, Intel 82557b, Intel 82559e, Intel > E1000, PCNetLanCard, Virtio. > > Anyhow I was unable to activate the network automatically. Which card do I > have to choose for automatic installation? > > Qemu manager and keyboard: > There are some strange behaviours in Qemu, especially with "edit". > I had problems with "ALT-F" and then "X" for exit, arrow up and down (they > sometimes caused repeating a character) etc. > > > Two proposal for upcoming 1.4 FD installation CD: > > On modern systems it is unusual that the BootCD boots twice (because fdisk > requires a reboot). A short message in the installation routine that it has > to boot > twice would be very helpful for newbies, otherwise they may think that > something goes wrong. > > The installation CD offers some keyboard layouts without codepage settings > etc. The result is not the optimum. Would it be possible to add the settings > for those > countries, e.g.: > > Israel: > fdconfig.sys: > COUNTRY=972,862,C:\FREEDOS\BIN\country.sys > fdauto.bat: > set LANG=IL > LH DISPLAY CON=(EGA,,1) > MODE CON CP PREP=((862) %DOSDIR:\CPI\EGA17.CPX) > MODE CON CP SEL=862 > MODE CON CP REFRESH > keyb il,862,C:\freedos\bin\keybrd3.sys > (mkeyb HE works with right CTRL button, this causes problems in virtualbox) > Comment: ALT+right SHIFT=HE chars, ALT+left SHIFT=latin chars > In "edit" ALT+right /left SHIFT has to be pressed twice! > In "mined" ALT+right / left SHIFT has to be pressed once! > I don’t think that is actually possible. Keyboard settings are not the same thing as CODEPAGE and COUNTRY settings. At some point it would be nice to include a few extra batch helpers, once installed a user could maybe run SETLANG.BAT to better configure keyboard and display settings.
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