Re: [Freedos-user] Installation problems
Hi Braden, I've formatted my hard disk, installed the boot manager using the option in xfdisk and installed freedos. Yet, LILO continues to remain the boot manager on my hard disk and only shows LINUX as an available kernel. Sure - DOS does not modify files on your Linux partition such as the LILO configuration, but you can do this yourself from within Linux. You will find many emails discussing how to do this when you search in the mailing list archives. There are also webpages / howtos about booting DOS with Lilo. I just received a 8-bit PIC microcontroller with a low pin development board. It has a USB interface. Is it possible to program the PIC using a language such as FreeBASIC? Try the www.georgpotthast.de/usb/ USB stack. The stack itself is closed source, but it comes with documented examples, even examples written in BASIC. Basically DOSUSB does the lowlevel stuff for you and gives you an interface for sending commands. The license is now free for personal use, but might improve. I found a lot of 5 3com Ethernet cards which are supported by DOS. They came in the mail not too long ago and I now want to install them. Find a suitable packet driver and load it to get the lowlevel support, the rest is done by a TCP/IP stack which is usually NOT a driver but a library compiled into the apps which use internet, for example Arachne. So, would someone kindly point me to some TCP/IP resources? I would like to start messing around with TCP/IP... A popular library is WATTCP / WATT32 - is free and comes with some examples, but I think you can also buy extra documentation. Eric: I'm still willing to test LBACache. How would you like to transfer the files between us? I do believe you have some web space.? Yes. I guess I just have to repair my homepage which got quite damaged during a hurried transfer from my old page to the new. BTW: I picked up an old AMD 1702A. A mentor at a local Junior College wrote up some plans for a writer. If anyone is interested in seeing those plans, let me know and I'll try and get them on the net for everyone to see. They include plans for the writer and a pulse generator. A writer? Eric -- Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex Builder(TM) are powering Web 2.0 with engaging, cross-platform capabilities. Quickly and easily build your RIAs with Flex Builder, the Eclipse(TM)based development software that enables intelligent coding and step-through debugging. Download the free 60 day trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-adobe-com ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on Virtual PC 2007
Hi! Line #1 in batchfile 'A:\INSTALL.BAT' too long Please post the first line of A:\INSTALL.BAT. Good catch! When I read the batch file in FreeDOS the file is full of gibberish. In Notepad on my WinXP machine, however, it is a properly formatted text file. Very strange. Maybe you saved it in Unicode / UTF-8? Or in Word or something ;-) You could try other free or shareware editors like TextPad to make sure that your file is really text. Of course it could also be the case that something on your filesystem confuses DOS and the gibberish is not even part of what your Notepad put in the file. Try using chkdsk / scandisk. anyone recommend software to create floppy images without needing an actual floppy drive? In Linux: just mount the image or use mtools. In Windows: I think there is a software called WinImage... :-). Eric -- Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex Builder(TM) are powering Web 2.0 with engaging, cross-platform capabilities. Quickly and easily build your RIAs with Flex Builder, the Eclipse(TM)based development software that enables intelligent coding and step-through debugging. Download the free 60 day trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-adobe-com ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on Virtual PC 2007
Eric Auer wrote: Very strange. Maybe you saved it in Unicode / UTF-8? Or in Word or something ;-) You could try other free or shareware editors like TextPad to make sure that your file is really text. Of course it could also be the case that something on your filesystem confuses DOS and the gibberish is not even part of what your Notepad put in the file. Try using chkdsk / scandisk. No, the batch file is on the original installation disk. I didn't create or modify it. If I run chkdsk in FreeDOS it says there are errors. When I run it on Windows it says there are no errors. Maybe FreeDOS doesn't have correct drivers for SuperDisk drives? In Linux: just mount the image or use mtools. In Windows: I think there is a software called WinImage... :-). I'll try this, thanks. -Mike -- Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex Builder(TM) are powering Web 2.0 with engaging, cross-platform capabilities. Quickly and easily build your RIAs with Flex Builder, the Eclipse(TM)based development software that enables intelligent coding and step-through debugging. Download the free 60 day trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-adobe-com ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on Virtual PC 2007
I'd give pretty long odds that it's unicode. -Original Message- From: Eric Auer [mailto:e.a...@jpberlin.de] Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 8:52 AM To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on Virtual PC 2007 Hi! Line #1 in batchfile 'A:\INSTALL.BAT' too long Please post the first line of A:\INSTALL.BAT. Good catch! When I read the batch file in FreeDOS the file is full of gibberish. In Notepad on my WinXP machine, however, it is a properly formatted text file. Very strange. Maybe you saved it in Unicode / UTF-8? Or in Word or something ;-) You could try other free or shareware editors like TextPad to make sure that your file is really text. Of course it could also be the case that something on your filesystem confuses DOS and the gibberish is not even part of what your Notepad put in the file. Try using chkdsk / scandisk. anyone recommend software to create floppy images without needing an actual floppy drive? In Linux: just mount the image or use mtools. In Windows: I think there is a software called WinImage... :-). Eric -- Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex Builder(TM) are powering Web 2.0 with engaging, cross-platform capabilities. Quickly and easily build your RIAs with Flex Builder, the Eclipse(TM)based development software that enables intelligent coding and step-through debugging. Download the free 60 day trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-adobe-com ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex Builder(TM) are powering Web 2.0 with engaging, cross-platform capabilities. Quickly and easily build your RIAs with Flex Builder, the Eclipse(TM)based development software that enables intelligent coding and step-through debugging. Download the free 60 day trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-adobe-com ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on Virtual PC 2007
k...@comcast.net wrote: Hi Mike: I use VFD to do this under Windows. (It's easy under Linux). See http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/vfd.html. You can mount the image as a floppy drive and copy files to/from it, format it, etc.. The other programs I know about cost money... Good luck. Mark Bailey Awesome! This worked perfectly! I am now able to read/execute all my floppy-based programs. The only issue that I can foresee is that certain rare floppies (old Microsoft OS installation disks for instance) are formatted/compressed in atypical ways as a form of copy-protection. I still have my Windows 3.11 disks, and remember that they were formatted to store more than 1.44MB. IIRC, simply copying from one disk to another didn't work last time I tried. One last question: how do I test whether the Sound Blaster settings are configured properly? I'm using the default settings created by the FreeDOS installation program, and I have the sound card enabled in Virtual PC, but I am not hearing any sounds in the game I just installed. Does FreeDOS come with a sound test utility? There is no documentation on the game's installation disks. Thanks again! -Mike -- Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex Builder(TM) are powering Web 2.0 with engaging, cross-platform capabilities. Quickly and easily build your RIAs with Flex Builder, the Eclipse(TM)based development software that enables intelligent coding and step-through debugging. Download the free 60 day trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-adobe-com ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
