Hi Alexandru, > I installed it but only from the base CD. Now it realy offers > me only some options at startup and then only the command prompt.
This is exactly what DOS always does :-). Of course you can install programs which automatically start at boot. For that, add them to your autoexec or fdauto batch file. A typical example would be NDN / DN or another file manager. From the old days, you probably still know Norton Commander and XTree but now there are also several good free alternatives. > What should I do to install programs and search the Web? You can surf the web with Arachne (big, graphical) which also supports email and ftp and, I believe, also IRC chat. Or you can use Lynx, Links2 and Elinks which are mostly text oriented. The latter two were mentioned on the list recently, they are on http://mik.dyndns.org/dos-stuff/ (a page which is not always online). To surf the web, you also need a packet driver for your network card. The www.freedos.org/freedos/links/ page has some driver pages. To install software in general, just take the ZIP from the fdfullcd or from the www and unzip it in the fdos directory. You can find more URLs at www.freedos.org/freedos/software/ Sometimes software is not already in nice zips. Then you can look at http://mateusz.viste.free.fr/fdupdate/ which is a collection of nicely zipped programs for use in FreeDOS... If you know a nice tool which is mentioned on freedos.org but not on fdupdate, you could help by making a nice zip for Mateusz so he can add it to fdupdate, thanks :-). > How can I put files into the computer under Freedos from a CD? Your CD/DVD should have a drive letter already. If not, try using xcdrom (atapi), gcdrom (sata), uide (atapi/sata udma) or a similar driver for the drive, and SHSUCDX (similar to MSCDEX) for the DOS drive letter :-). > I also can access the Freedos partition from under Linux. That is an easy method for adding files :-). > I found two sites with DOS programs including utilities, but I could't > download Arachne for DOS under Linux, it automatically downloads Arachne > for Linux, which I cannot install and use. Try those pages: www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/net/arachne/1.93/ www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/ and www.glennmcc.org/a193gpl/ Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
