> You are right that installing "all" includes some unstable > things such as old USB or network drivers which might crash > or hang during install. To avoid that, un-select packages > or simply install "base" freedos before "full" freedos.
Even after trying to install over the base release, I ended up getting some 'add packet driver' errors too many times, so I decided to try your following advice. > Not really, you will probably be fine with BASE and > you can simply unzip extra packages from the CD later. It's been a couple years since I tried messing around with a DOS, but I remembered the PATH variable. Thanks for pointing out that it was this simple, but this only solves the problem of the packages included on the disc. > SATA harddisk simply works by BIOS. For USB drives > and SD card readers, BIOS might help. Otherwise, > you can install the Bret Johnson USB drivers for > DOS or the demo version of the Georg Potthast ones > (which give faster I/O but only work for a while > after each time you load them)... For SATA DVD/CD, > you can use the UIDE drivers by Jack. All of those > are newer than 1.0 but you can just download them > in Linux, copy them to your DOS partition and then > unzip them there, read the docs, you know the rest. Are these the drivers that wget would attempt to pull from the net? I couldn't get the Bret Johnson USB drivers working, although all I tried were my usb flash drives. Back when I tried DOS last on MS-DOS 7.n something, I used the old DOSASPI.SYS/DI1000DD.SYS method successfully. While it was with the same usb flash drives, it was a different PC at the time. So going back to try it out, I couldn't get that method to work either. Any tips on getting the newer drivers to work? >> Here are my AUTOEXEC.BAT, and FDCONFIG.SYS pastes. >> http://pastebin.com/Gm9L8LVk >> http://pastebin.com/sk3z5BBm I was hoping someone might point out why the drivers wouldn't load in 'HIMEM XMS-memory' mode. I don't ever remember seeing '!' points in BAT files back when I had a mild familiarity with DOS. On a separate issue, my PC is older, but not classic native DOS old. It's from around 2005-06. It has a Nvidia 8400GS which seems to work fine, but it's sound card is the problem. I have a Sound Blaster Audigy SE. It works in newer apps like Mpxplay / QuickView Pro, but it doesn't work with any older apps that require SB compatibility it seems. Are there any generic SB emulators for (Free)DOS? I don't know much about the technical driver stuff, sorry. -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/FreeDOS-driver-issues-tp32073870p32075623.html Sent from the FreeDOS - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ AppSumo Presents a FREE Video for the SourceForge Community by Eric Ries, the creator of the Lean Startup Methodology on "Lean Startup Secrets Revealed." This video shows you how to validate your ideas, optimize your ideas and identify your business strategy. http://p.sf.net/sfu/appsumosfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
