Re: [Freedos-user] Announce: vmsmount, a driver for mounting VMware's shared folders in DOS
with vmplayer it doesn't seem to work... I'm getting a screenshot like the one attached... black borders around the prompt screen I tried a combination of the following options pref.autoFitGuestToWindow = FALSE pref.autoFitFullScreen = fitHostToGuest pref.autoFit = TRUE no success may be it doesn't work for VmPlayer Bernd Blaauw wrote: Op 20-1-2012 22:36, maui schreef: I tried but it seems not to work... I'm using VmPlayer under win7 64 and I added in ... VMware\preferences.ini pref.autoFitFullScreen = fitHostToGuest (tried also pref.autoFitFullScreen = fitGuestToHost) Have you tried successfully? thank you I'm using VMware Workstation 8.0 on Windows 7 Ultimate, 64bit. Seems to work fine here, be sure to hit the full screen button. -- Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Announce%3A-vmsmount%2C-a-driver-for-mounting-VMware%27s-shared-folders-in-DOS-tp32572642p33183723.html Sent from the FreeDOS - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Big bootable disk for CD
Thank you, Bret. I was just able to buy some reasonably priced USB drives and I'll play with installing FreeDOS on these. I too seem to remember that Win98 or Win XP DOS boot disks always boot with an extended memory management application. Does FreeDOS have the equivalent? The machine I'm testing FreeDOS on has 16 Gb of memory installed. Many thanks! Bob On 1/21/12 11:44 AM, Bret Johnson wrote: My motherboard BIOS update program afud3410.exe (made by MSI) seems to freeze up when I try to start the BIOS update. The directions for ? using it say never update the BIOS from a floppy drive, then proceed to give directions for doing exactly that, but using Windows 98 or Windows XP bootable floppies as an example. Perhaps I need to create a ramdrive which would give me a new drive letter, copy the BIOS update there and then do the update. If it is simply a drive letter issue (the driver letter needs to be at least C:), you can try to use ASSIGN or SWSUBST to give you an alias drive letter (using these utilities, the same drive can be both A: and C:, for example). A RAM disk could also work, but is more complicated. The fact that the examples use Win 98 and XP boot disks makes me think it may not actually be drive letter issue, but may something else (like a memory issue -- I think Win 98 and XP boot disks always boot with Extended and/or Expanded Memory Management). It's hard to say for sure, though. If I use a USB flash drive, that will give me a drive letter other than A:, B:, or C:, will it? It depends on the USB driver. -- Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Big bootable disk for CD
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 1:55 PM, Bob Cochran bcochra...@verizon.net wrote: Thank you, Bret. I was just able to buy some reasonably priced USB drives and I'll play with installing FreeDOS on these. I too seem to remember that Win98 or Win XP DOS boot disks always boot with an extended memory management application. Does FreeDOS have the equivalent? FreeDOS comes with open source equivalents of HIMEM.SYS and EMM386.EXE. FreeDOS *is* a DOS system, so you'll have the standard DOS limit of 1MB of real memory, and 640KB of conventional memory available to applications. The box I have FreeDOS on has 256MB of RAM. I load HIMEM.SYS, and have a disk cache and a ramdisk in XMS memory. The machine I'm testing FreeDOS on has 16 Gb of memory installed. Er, don't you mean 16 megabytes? Bob __ Dennis -- Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Big bootable disk for CD
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 4:30 PM, TJ Edmister damag...@hyakushiki.net wrote: On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 14:07:01 -0500, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote: FreeDOS *is* a DOS system, so you'll have the standard DOS limit of 1MB of real memory, and 640KB of conventional memory available to applications. The box I have FreeDOS on has 256MB of RAM. I load HIMEM.SYS, and have a disk cache and a ramdisk in XMS memory. Isn`t XMGR.SYS the xms memory manager under FreeDOS? Loading HIMEM.SYS seemed to cause a crash for me, although I could be wrong. It's HIMEM.EXE here in FreeDOS 1.0. (I misspoke calling it HIMEM.SYS.) The machine I'm testing FreeDOS on has 16 Gb of memory installed. Er, don't you mean 16 megabytes? 16GB as in gigabytes is certainly believable these days, on a 64-bit system. Believable but unlikely, unless it's a server. The consumer systems I've seen all have 3 - 8 GB. __ Dennis -- Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Big bootable disk for CD
Thank you, Dennis and TJ. I do indeed have 16 gigabytes of memory on my box. It is running a 6 core processor and gaming motherboard (that is MSI's description for it) which I've repurposed for server work. Specifically it is being transformed into a network attached storage server running FreeNAS 8.x. To explain my interest in FreeDOS: I have a need to update a motherboard BIOS. Also, I some Dell PERC 5/I SAS controllers (they have the LSI chipset) which need a firmware update as described here: http://forums.overclockers.com.au/showpost.php?p=12000789postcount=88 I assume the person who did the update and is talking about a boot floppy means a DOS boot floppy. Thanks Bob On 1/22/12 4:36 PM, dmccunney wrote: On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 4:30 PM, TJ Edmisterdamag...@hyakushiki.net wrote: On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 14:07:01 -0500, dmccunneydennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote: FreeDOS *is* a DOS system, so you'll have the standard DOS limit of 1MB of real memory, and 640KB of conventional memory available to applications. The box I have FreeDOS on has 256MB of RAM. I load HIMEM.SYS, and have a disk cache and a ramdisk in XMS memory. Isn`t XMGR.SYS the xms memory manager under FreeDOS? Loading HIMEM.SYS seemed to cause a crash for me, although I could be wrong. It's HIMEM.EXE here in FreeDOS 1.0. (I misspoke calling it HIMEM.SYS.) The machine I'm testing FreeDOS on has 16 Gb of memory installed. Er, don't you mean 16 megabytes? 16GB as in gigabytes is certainly believable these days, on a 64-bit system. Believable but unlikely, unless it's a server. The consumer systems I've seen all have 3 - 8 GB. __ Dennis -- Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
