Re: [Freedos-user] missing freedos command interpreter
From: Eric Auer e.a...@jpberlin.de Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 12:01:27 +0100 Apparently your FreeDOS booted the kernel but then did not find the shell: Maybe it got confused about the drive letters - try a few drive letters at the bad or missing command interpreter prompt: Good catch! Thanks! D:\COMMAND.COM /P /E:256 FreeCom version 0.84-preXMS_Swap [Sep 25 2005 15:16:48] Error reading from drive C: DOS area: general failure (A)bort, (I)gnore, (R)etry, (F)ail? I C:\D: D:\ = When there is time, will try the installation to /dev/sda1 again, using the current installer. Incidentally, this machine has FreeDOS on /dev/sdb1 and PC Native Oberon, Alpha, 2003-01-05 on /dev/sda2. /dev/sda is a spinning drive and /dev/sdb is a Compact Flash card. Bluebottle BootMan is installed and has no problem starting either of the two working OSs. Oberon and BootMan are available from the ETHZ server. http://www.ethoberon.ethz.ch/ http://www.ethoberon.ethz.ch/native/ ftp://ftp.ethoberon.ethz.ch/ETHOberon/Native/Update/Alpha/ http://www.ethoberon.ethz.ch/bootman.html Regards, ... Peter E. -- 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 12 Tel +13606390202 Bcc: peasthope at shaw.ca http://carnot.yi.org/ http://members.shaw.ca/peasthope/index.html#Itinerary -- LogMeIn Rescue: Anywhere, Anytime Remote support for IT. Free Trial Remotely access PCs and mobile devices and provide instant support Improve your efficiency, and focus on delivering more value-add services Discover what IT Professionals Know. Rescue delivers http://p.sf.net/sfu/logmein_12329d2d ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Re (2): Re (2): Another possible ambiguity of target; a drive part not acceptable to the installer.
Op 21-12-2012 3:40, peasth...@shaw.ca schreef: Well that was OK when diskettes were the only rotating media. Usually a diskette wasn't partitioned. Part and volume were synonymous. optical media usually weren't partitioned either, and flashdrives might be partitioned but usually only with 1 partition. Windows is very specific about partitioned removable media. External harddisks is another story ofcourse, and even there most/all partitions aren't visible to DOS anyway, as Microsoft discourages using FAT, for example by disabling the ability in their own FORMAT/DISKPART tools to create FAT partitions over 32GB (which starts to show for USB sticks and SD cards). Where a hard disk drive is involved, drive should mean hard disk drive and part should mean part of a hard disk drive. When software says it will format the drive I want to be sure it doesn't mean format the whole hard disk drive. Unambiguous terminology really does help. I've never used 'part' and don't recognise it from any operating system I know. Ideally you'd have something like: C: (primary partition/volume #1, active, label xyz, capacity X, used Y, disk Z, total sectors/heads/tracks = A/B/C, starting from D up to E). I had hoped to run FreeDOS on the OLPC XO-1.5 but it is no simple problem. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Talk:Our_software That sounds like a video BIOS indeed. I don't know if Coreboot could run on that machine at all. If so, it might be able to run SeaBIOS and corresponding VGA BIOS as well. I'm not in possession of a 35 euro Raspberry Pi computer, but that running on Linux with a DOS emulator (BOCHS/QEMU) on top could run just fine. Even when considering how memory-hungry most Linux distributions are. Guess it helps they upgraded the machines to 512MB. I don't know of any effort of running Bochs on a very stripped Linux. Kernel + initrd + tiny userland + Bochs + FreeDOS should do the trick. Bernd -- LogMeIn Rescue: Anywhere, Anytime Remote support for IT. Free Trial Remotely access PCs and mobile devices and provide instant support Improve your efficiency, and focus on delivering more value-add services Discover what IT Professionals Know. Rescue delivers http://p.sf.net/sfu/logmein_12329d2d ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] freedos-98
But the Warcraft II that I`m familiar with did run under plain DOS (well... with DOS4GW). Then the complete ReactOS discussion is pointless. 1. Get WC II working under FreeDOS (troubleshoot DOG4/SW or try DOS32/A) 2. Get the network working Only the included map editor needed Windows (3.1 or higher) to run HX doesn't support Win16 ... ReacOS probably neither. -- LogMeIn Rescue: Anywhere, Anytime Remote support for IT. Free Trial Remotely access PCs and mobile devices and provide instant support Improve your efficiency, and focus on delivering more value-add services Discover what IT Professionals Know. Rescue delivers http://p.sf.net/sfu/logmein_12329d2d ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Windows 98SE and ipxwrapper...
Microsoft should have skipped Windows 9x in favor of bringing everyone into an NT environment sooner. Right ... and even better skip Win16 and MS-DOG too ;-) HX probably won't run Warcraft II You still didn't reveal whether the thing is a DOS or Win16 or Win32 binary :WtF: open source IPX/SPX implementation that works on all versions of Windows up to 8 Maybe true but not really FreeDOS related. -- LogMeIn Rescue: Anywhere, Anytime Remote support for IT. Free Trial Remotely access PCs and mobile devices and provide instant support Improve your efficiency, and focus on delivering more value-add services Discover what IT Professionals Know. Rescue delivers http://p.sf.net/sfu/logmein_12329d2d ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
