Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.4-RC2

2025-02-04 Thread Jerome Shidel via Freedos-devel
> On Feb 5, 2025, at 12:19 AM, Ladislav Lacina via Freedos-devel > wrote: > > I see. I downloaded "FD14-FullUSB.zip". > > So it means that FD14-FullUSB.zip is non-live but FD14-LiveCD.zip is live > distribution? > Correct. Technically booting any of the FreeDOS release/install media provi

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.4-RC2

2025-02-04 Thread Ladislav Lacina via Freedos-devel
"" I see. I downloaded "FD14-FullUSB.zip". So it means that FD14-FullUSB.zip is non-live but FD14-LiveCD.zip is live distribution?   " I'm confused by this comment. FreeDOS 1.4 RC2 (and even the existing FreeDOS 1.3) includes a LiveCD image that you can boot into a FreeDOS that runs from the CD

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.4-RC2

2025-02-04 Thread Jim Hall via Freedos-devel
On Mon, Feb 3, 2025 at 10:31 AM Ladislav Lacina via Freedos-devel wrote: > I am disappointed that it is not a live DVD distribution. It seems to > be that you ignore all users who run FreeDOS on real hardware. It is > a little bit sad, isn't ? I'm confused by this comment. FreeDOS 1.4 RC2 (and e

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.4-RC2

2025-02-03 Thread Jerome Shidel via Freedos-devel
Hi Willi, > On Feb 3, 2025, at 2:03 PM, Fritz Mueller via Freedos-devel > wrote: > > Not sure if it is the same problem, but live CD reports: > Bring archiver\7zip package online. Failed, extraction error. dir says that > R: has 1,150,976 Bytes free. Means: Is the ramdrive space simply too sma

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.4-RC2

2025-02-03 Thread Fritz Mueller via Freedos-devel
: "Ladislav Lacina via Freedos-devel" To: "Technical discussion and questions for FreeDOS developers." Cc: "Ladislav Lacina" Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.4-RC2 I am disappointed that it is not a live DVD distribution. It seems to be that you ignore all users who ru

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.4-RC2

2025-02-03 Thread Ladislav Lacina via Freedos-devel
I am disappointed that it is not a live DVD distribution. It seems to be that you ignore all users who run FreeDOS on real hardware. It is a little bit sad, isn't ? ___ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sou

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.4-RC2

2025-02-02 Thread Jerome Shidel via Freedos-devel
> On Feb 2, 2025, at 10:23 AM, Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel > wrote: > > Hi Jerome, > > hope you are feeling better! > > Am 02.02.2025 um 16:06 schrieb Jerome Shidel via Freedos-devel: > > >> Do all boot options result in the “out of memory” error? > No, it works when booted with JEMM3

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.4-RC2

2025-02-02 Thread tom ehlert via Freedos-devel
> I tested with JEMMEX 5.84 from RC1. Same problem. However, when I boot > with FreeCOM 0.85a and then launch FreeCOM 0.86 after the system is > booted, it works. >> This could be related to the “out of memory” issues Paul Dufresne was >> experiencing on real hardware with RC1, FreeCOM 0.85a an

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.4-RC2

2025-02-02 Thread Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel
Hi Jerome, hope you are feeling better! Am 02.02.2025 um 16:06 schrieb Jerome Shidel via Freedos-devel: Do all boot options result in the “out of memory” error? No, it works when booted with JEMM386 and HIMEMX. Also, JEMM was updated to 5.85 for RC2. I doubt it will make any difference. But

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.4-RC2

2025-02-02 Thread Jerome Shidel via Freedos-devel
> On Feb 2, 2025, at 9:47 AM, Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel > wrote: > [..] > An installed FreeDOS RC2 however hangs after boot with a "out of memory" > error if JEMMEX is loaded. The message seems to be printed by FreeCOM 0.86. > If I replace FreeCOM 0.86 with FreeCOM 0.85a, the system bo

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.4-RC2

2025-02-02 Thread Bernd Böckmann via Freedos-devel
Hi all, I did a few quick tests with RC2 on VMware Workstation, and the results are mixed. RC1 had the problem that the installation under VMware did not succeed because after the disk was partitioned and the VM was rebooted, the installation did not continue. This is fixed in RC2 by an upda

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.4-RC2

2025-02-01 Thread Eric Auer via Freedos-devel
Hi Jerome & David, thanks for all those "patch-1" updates and the translation updates :-) There also is a FreeCOM update already, but no kernel update yet? I hope you will feel very healthy again very soon :-) Eric ___ Freedos-devel mailing lis

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS 1.4-RC2

2025-02-01 Thread Jim Hall via Freedos-devel
This is great -- thanks for putting this together. (I'm installing it now.) I've updated the website to point folks to the new RC2 so they can test it. I'm hoping this will help get more attention. (And I hope you feel better soon!) On Sat, Feb 1, 2025 at 9:23 AM Jerome Shidel via Freedos-devel