I've been experimenting with FreeDos Beta 3. Here are some
observations. Some of them may need some correction, so I hope more
knowledgeable users will comment.
1. freedos seems to assign hd letters differently from msdos. I have
three msdos partitions.
msdos C: is freedos C:
msdos D: is freedos E:
msdos E: is freedos D:
2. I can't get the freedos disk to install freedos on drive D: or E:.
I haven't tried C: because I don't want to change that partition.
3. Under dosemu, freedos doesn't interact correctly with WordPerfect
5.1. When I exit WP, it sends me a message indicating that WP thinks
it's running from a floppy rather than the hd, something like "insert
second floppy disk". With msdos 6.2 under dosemu, WP function as
expected so far.
4. Under dosemu, I can't make freedos run WP correctly when WP is
placed in a second hdimage created by mkfatimage16. Again, WP thinks
it is running from floppy drives.
5. When booted natively with a floppy, freedos does everything as
expected, except for the drive numbering order noted in #1 above. I'd
say the freedos project is really making progress.
Any comments or corrections?
Hugh Lawson
Greensboro, North Carolina
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