Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.4-RC3

2025-03-02 Thread tom ehlert via Freedos-devel
Hallo Herr Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel, am Samstag, 1. März 2025 um 20:40 schrieben Sie: >> the bug is found, fixed, and was communicated on this list. >> >> That this is not implemented in the latest RC3 is a sad shame. > It is fixed for the FreeDOS package via [1]. >> I'm fairly certain y

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.4-RC3

2025-03-01 Thread tom ehlert via Freedos-devel
> I do not think the “out of memory” issue on VMware has had a resolution > provided. It does. The solution is to re-enable the exe-header modification of command.com. the bug is found, fixed, and was communicated on this list. That this is not implemented in the latest RC3 is a sad shame.

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.4-RC3

2025-03-01 Thread Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel
the bug is found, fixed, and was communicated on this list. That this is not implemented in the latest RC3 is a sad shame. It is fixed for the FreeDOS package via [1]. I'm fairly certain you didn't test all the other changes. Sometimes you have to believe;) However the origin of the bug (the

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.4-RC3

2025-03-01 Thread Jerome Shidel via Freedos-devel
Hi Willi, > On Mar 1, 2025, at 1:45 PM, Fritz Mueller via Freedos-devel > wrote: > >  > Hi Jerome, > here some first results with vmware: > > a) Installation in VMware works, it is no longer possible to set a bios boot > delay in VMware. Great. Thank you Bernd! > b) Booting in VMware wi

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.4-RC3

2025-03-01 Thread tom ehlert via Freedos-devel
Hallo Herr Jerome Shidel via Freedos-devel, am Samstag, 1. März 2025 um 20:22 schrieben Sie: > Hi Tom, >> On Mar 1, 2025, at 1:42 PM, tom ehlert via Freedos-devel >> wrote: >>  >>> I do not think the “out of memory” issue on VMware has had a resolution >>> provided. >> It does. The solution

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.4-RC3

2025-03-01 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-devel
The FreeDOS 1.4-RC3, release candidate build (aka T2503) is now available at: https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/test/ ... Changes since 1.4-RC2: ... 2025-02-21 15:51:07 freecom [candidate] (Bernd Boeckmann): fix INDEX.md 2025-02-21 15:35:31 freecom [

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.4-RC3

2025-03-01 Thread Jerome Shidel via Freedos-devel
Hi Tom, > On Mar 1, 2025, at 1:42 PM, tom ehlert via Freedos-devel > wrote: >  >> I do not think the “out of memory” issue on VMware has had a resolution >> provided. > It does. The solution is to re-enable the exe-header modification of > command.com. > > the bug is found, fixed, and was co

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.4-RC3 Confirm Out of memory error gone

2025-03-01 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-devel
Le Sat, 01 Mar 2025 13:44:54 -0500 Fritz Mueller via Freedos-devel a écrit > Hi Jerome, > here some first results with vmware: >   > a) Installation in VMware works, it is no longer possible to set a bios boot > delay in VMware. > b) Booting in VMware with Options 1 and 2 also

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.4-RC3

2025-03-01 Thread Fritz Mueller via Freedos-devel
Hi Jerome, here some first results with vmware:   a) Installation in VMware works, it is no longer possible to set a bios boot delay in VMware. b) Booting in VMware with Options 1 and 2 also works again! No idea why! c) Network seems to be connected. d) fdnpkg checkupdates seems to work but is r

[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.4-RC3

2025-03-01 Thread Jerome Shidel via Freedos-devel
The FreeDOS 1.4-RC3, release candidate build (aka T2503) is now available at: https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/test/ I will not be updating the FreeDOS 1.4 “download/update repositories” with the updated versions of the packages that are available in RC3.

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.4-RC3

2025-02-17 Thread Ralf Quint via Freedos-devel
On 2/16/2025 11:18 AM, Eric Auer via Freedos-devel wrote: Hi Jim, I'm bringing back to the list an item we talked about on the video call today: the issue with JEMMEX on VMWare and some hardware configs. One solution is to not include some memory areas, such as when the installer detects VM

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.4-RC3

2025-02-16 Thread Jerome Shidel via Freedos-devel
> On Feb 16, 2025, at 8:21 PM, victoria crenshaw via Freedos-devel > wrote: > > which kind of system should upgrade my 1.3 freedos stuff? > one of my 486 or + systems or one of my 286 systems? > > or my little XT (book 8088) (might be easier) Personally, I would probably just do the easiest

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.4-RC3

2025-02-16 Thread victoria crenshaw via Freedos-devel
which kind of system should upgrade my 1.3 freedos stuff? one of my 486 or + systems or one of my 286 systems? or my little XT (book 8088) (might be easier) On Sun, 2025-02-16 at 13:09 -0600, Jim Hall via Freedos-devel wrote: > I'm bringing back to the list an item we talked about on the video >

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.4-RC3

2025-02-16 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-devel
Hi Jim, I'm bringing back to the list an item we talked about on the video call today: the issue with JEMMEX on VMWare and some hardware configs. One solution is to not include some memory areas, such as when the installer detects VMWare (that's an easy fix). It should not be the job of t

[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.4-RC3

2025-02-16 Thread Jim Hall via Freedos-devel
I'm bringing back to the list an item we talked about on the video call today: the issue with JEMMEX on VMWare and some hardware configs. One solution is to not include some memory areas, such as when the installer detects VMWare (that's an easy fix). Sounds like we should have one more opportunit