Hi Ron, I know I mentioned it in my off-list email to you earlier this week, but you can boot FreeDOS from CD and use it via LiveCD, but you still have direct access to the hardware and if you do something in FreeDOS without realizing what's going on (disk tools, etc.) you can quickly make your C: Windows system unusable.
I would really encourage any casual DOS user to run FreeDOS in a virtual environment. I'd suggest the same for you. There's pretty much no risk of damaging your system accidentally when run inside a virtual machine. And unless you're doing development, the minor loss in performance by running in a virtual machine isn't noticeable. There are several free ($0) virtual machine environments you can use. VirtualPC, VirtualBox, VMWare are all very good. On my Linux system, I use VirtualBox and DOSEmu, both for different things. I used to run VMWare, and that's still nice, but I'm trying out VirtualBox right now. :-) -jh On 1/20/08, Ron Spruell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You know I have one question? Reading all the posts I realize that yes I > liked DOS and I ran DOS as long as I could, even went to DR DOS when things > were looking like Microsoft was going to drop DOS so I ran it as long as I > could But I am not oin the league of you folks that get into the guts of > this DOS. The question I have is this Can one of you if not a team get > together and fix this DOS so that I or anyone could boot from a DVD or CD > which ever and run this DOS off that media? I would also want it to > recognize all my drives including the memory card readers? Would this be > impossible? If not I would really like to have this DOS to be able to run > off a DVD or CD in other words boot from either. I have the Microsoft DOS 5 > and 6 books so I would have the information I need but I have to keep this > machine Windows ready and can't take the chance I would mess something up > and not be able to fix it. And I wouldn't have the knowledge to fix it if I > broke it so the reason I want it to boot from a DVD or CD. > > Ron Spruell Sr. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
