to get together and make one!
Thanks.
Mark Bailey
Alain M. wrote:
In fact I made my own distro. It's a single floppy, single language and
install exactly where MS-DOS did: in C:\DOS
Some time ago, I tried to talk about that kind of distro, but every one
wanted a big, too-full, graphic
Hi Jim:
I just downloaded and uncompressed this on a WindowsXP box.
I mounted the ISO image and used McAfee Virus Scan to scan
the files in the ISO image. My McAfee Virus Scan has a current
database. No infected files were found and I had it check
within ZIP files.
FWIW...
Mark Bailey
Jim
).
http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/vfd.html
Mark Bailey
Michael Devore wrote:
[sent again with the right SourceForge-approved e-mail address this time]
Anybody have a MS-DOS 5.x or 6.x image around I could use? I need to do
some side-by-side testing in Qemu of MS-DOS against FreeDOS
Alain M. wrote:
Arkady V.Belousov escreveu:
GPL also free for _any_ use (binaries). And, for example, you may
compile commercial apps by GCC.
That is what the comercial says. the hard reality is that you have
problems with the lib which cannot be used, with GCC you have worse
Alain M. wrote:
Arkady V.Belousov escreveu:
EA Several users have lost their boot loader,
You wish to say, that some boot-loaders don't have MBR signature?
Being one that lost it, I can say with 99.999% certainty that my MBR was
ok. I believe that some obscure read error caused it
identified above as HD2, D:!
DIR C: gives an error.
I can't add a floppy drive to this laptop (except for a USB
floppy drive which just adds too much confustion), but clearly
the problems booting this laptop don't depend on whether the
USB stick has an MBR!
Ugh!!!
Mark Bailey
status? Is this
the media descriptor at offset 15h in the FAT32
boot sector?
Also, does the machine in question have a floppy
disk drive?
Mark
Michael Devore wrote:
At 11:15 AM 2/23/2006 -0500, Mark Bailey wrote:
My BIOS on THIS computer auto-detects the USB stick and
presents the boot option
Michael Devore wrote:
At 07:47 AM 2/24/2006 -0500, Mark Bailey wrote:
If you don't have a low-level disk editor of some type, you can either
use Bart's utilities' MKBT to read a boot disk image from the flash disk
and examine it for a valid partition information etc., or you can use
Michael Devore wrote:
At 07:47 AM 2/24/2006 -0500, Mark Bailey wrote:
Hi Michael:
Thanks again for your help. I have now found a link on
how to format a stick as either a superfloppy or
with an MBR. It does this from Linux, but I begin
to understand what is happening. Linux devices I get
to provide any information
that will assist debugging this or run various programs.
I am reluctant to run FreeDOS FDISK, though. Without
an older EMM386, it is PROBABLY safe. I can run Linux
FDISK or dump MBR's from Windows or Linux.
Thanks!
Mark Bailey
Mark Bailey wrote:
OK, I can make
Hi Michael:
I happen to have an off-brand 128MB USB stick. I used FORMAT
0.91V and the SYS and 32-bit kernel from fdos.org/kernel
(Development). I booted from a floppy disk and did a format d:
and sys d: to the USB stick. My primary 500MByte DOS partition
showed up as C: and my extended FAT32
{
error_file_not_found();
rv = E_Other;
}
}
if(!rv)
rv = dir_print_free(*dircount);
Is this the intended behavior? I found it confusing and
MSDOS prints File not found and the number of bytes free.
Mark Bailey
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Kenneth J. Davis wrote:
Mark Bailey wrote:
I thought DOS (at least older versions) did not print free space unless
at least one file was displayed. This may have changed (or my memory is
wrong). Assuming my memory is not wrong (and based on the way it is
coded) this does appear
Kenneth J. Davis wrote:
BTW:
there are USB drives partitioned as (pseudo)floppies, without
partitiontable, and the kernel should then boot from A:
there are USB drives partitioned as (pseudo)harddisks, *with*
partitiontable, and the kernel should then boot from C:
which I think is the
c:\autoexec.bat works fine.
This is frustrating!
Mark Bailey
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tool sets the hidden attribute on the system files and
the FreeDOS DIR command doesn't show the size of the drive if there
are no files on it, so I have to be very careful in checking A:.
Back to the drawing board!
Thanks to Eric Auer and Alain for the help.
Mark
Mark Bailey wrote:
Hello
Hello, all:
OK. I'm trying a different experiment, and a more methodical one.
(I have a different computer and a different USB stick). I am
using the HP Utility SP27213. This utility detects whether you
have files named kernel.sys/command.com in the directory you point
it at or
partitions? It is almost like the Ext[ 1]
information from the hard drive is overwriting the information
from the stick.
I don't have a computer that doesn't have DOS installed beside
WindowsXP (i.e. a FAT partition or two or three)! :-)
Thanks.
Mark Bailey
have an unreproducable case.
I should have quit fooling with it! :-)
Thanks for all of the help.
Mark Bailey
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Michael Devore wrote:
At 04:48 AM 2/12/2006 +, Mark Bailey wrote:
Good day, all:
I am trying to get a USB stick to boot FreeDOS using SYSLINUX and
MEMDISK.
It boots fine using the odin1440.img file from odin.fdos.org/2005/.
FreeDOS
boots fine and copies the odin1440.img files
Michael Devore wrote:
At 04:48 AM 2/12/2006 +, Mark Bailey wrote:
Good day, all:
I am trying to get a USB stick to boot FreeDOS using SYSLINUX and
MEMDISK.
It boots fine using the odin1440.img file from odin.fdos.org/2005/.
FreeDOS
boots fine and copies the odin1440.img files
Hi Jeremy:
I hate to sound like an idiot (!) but how do I tell
what BIOS this box has? It's a fairly new HP desktop.
I'll see whether the BIOS setup menus say anything about
that when I reboot.
Windows says this is a M-SYS Dell Memory Key USB device.
Under Properties/Volumes, Windows says:
machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be
distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium
customarily used for software interchange; or,
Thus, this license is explicitely NOT compatible with the GPL.
Mark Bailey
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Mark Bailey wrote:
Hi Paul:
Well, the FreeDOS Beta9SR1 CD is set up to use ISOLINUX and
MEMDISK to boot a 360K floppy disk image called FDBOOT.IMG.
This floppy disk image contains a file called FDCONFIG.SYS
that sets up the initial menus and then invokes fdauto.bat.
What you want
Hi Paul:
Well, the FreeDOS Beta9SR1 CD is set up to use ISOLINUX and
MEMDISK to boot a 360K floppy disk image called FDBOOT.IMG.
This floppy disk image contains a file called FDCONFIG.SYS
that sets up the initial menus and then invokes fdauto.bat.
What you want to do is to create a new
images on computers without disk drives (by creating a
virtual drive at A:).
It opened the FDBOOT.IMG file from the CD instantly and
allowed me to look at FDCONFIG.SYS.
Great program.
Mark
Mark Bailey wrote:
Hi Paul:
I use a neat free program called VFD (Virtual Floppy Driver) to
manipulate
Oops...my mistake. Thanks, Bernd!
Mark
Bernd Blaauw wrote:
Mark Bailey schreef:
Unfortunately, neither VIDE-CDD nor OAKCDROM are freely
redistributable.
Eltorito.sys is freely redistributable
(http://www.nu2.nu/eltorito/) but neither
open source nor supported. :-( It also
works slightly
haven't tried this yet...I am unsure about the interactions
between UMBPCI and EMM386.
Has anyone successfully run NTFS4DOS with FreeDOS using
this trick to free up low memory?
Thanks in advance for any help.
Mark Bailey
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