On 08/26/16 14:12, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
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> Memdisk already supports being a disk number other than 0x00 or 0x80,
> and the DL register will reflect that. However, I was thinking of
> provided a more explicit hint, so that scripts can reply on the
> ramdisk being, say, R:
>
So, in case there is
On August 26, 2016 12:26:52 AM PDT, Eric Auer wrote:
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>Hi HPA! The boot sector takes a BIOS drive number of the
>to-be-booted drive from the MBR, which can take it from
>the BIOS. There also are patches to take the MBR item by
>pointer from the MBR, but those are not used by default.
>
>So I gues
Hi HPA! The boot sector takes a BIOS drive number of the
to-be-booted drive from the MBR, which can take it from
the BIOS. There also are patches to take the MBR item by
pointer from the MBR, but those are not used by default.
So I guess the kernel could take the drive number from a
boot sector,
On 01/13/16 08:33, Eric Auer wrote:
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> Hi HPA and Joao,
>
> support for EXT3 in the kernel would indeed be large/complex.
>
> Only supporting EXT3 READS already would take circa 10 kB of
> code, taking the size of the EXT2/3/4 GRUB module as example.
>
> I like MEMDISK bootable ramdisk style:
Hi HPA and Joao,
support for EXT3 in the kernel would indeed be large/complex.
Only supporting EXT3 READS already would take circa 10 kB of
code, taking the size of the EXT2/3/4 GRUB module as example.
I like MEMDISK bootable ramdisk style: MEMDISK can be booted
by boot loaders which are able t
On 17-11-2015 05:36, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
A TSR redirector would be great for assigning an EXT3 drive to a drive
>letter for standard I/O operations. However a kernel driver would
>allow freeDOS to boot and run from an EXT3 journaling partition, I can
>only imagine that the benefits from this w
On 08/14/15 15:00, Till wrote:
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> Quoting João Jerónimo :
>
>> Wouldn't it be better to use a redirector? This can be done with a TSR.
>>
>> João Jerónimo
>>
>
>
> A TSR redirector would be great for assigning an EXT3 drive to a drive
> letter for standard I/O operations. However a kernel d
Alain I would love to try this one of these days when I get some spare
time. When I do use it, I will be sure to let you know what I come up
with :)
Till
Quoting Alain Mouette :
> The basic idea is to start with a fresh install of an Ubuntu LTS
> server. Then a Script could install all
The only problem with virtual box is that it isn't accessible. Any folks
using screen readers are likely to need dosemu instead of virtual box. It
may work under orca, but I've not tested that here.
Just a point of interest for those who need/want to know.
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The basic idea is to start with a fresh install of an Ubuntu LTS server.
Then a Script could install all the rest. I am already doing this on a
project and it works very well, all scripts are posted on github:
https://github.com/alainm/nfas (sorry, it's in portuguese due to local
colaborators)
Quoting Alain Mouette :
> Why not use all that effort to run FreeDOS over Linux? Dosemu works very
> well...
>
> It has already been done in the past, mas it was slackware based and as
> soon as released had no mantainance, so it went dead.
>
> *) you get all the drivers to run on any hardware
> *
Quoting Tom Ehlert :
> booting from EXT3 would require to make EXT3 part of the kernel.
> not going to happen.
>
> otoh there is virtually no disadvantage to have a loadable TSR to make
> EXT3 available as a redirector.
I think booting from a small FAT partition and using a TSR to make
EXT3
Why not use all that effort to run FreeDOS over Linux? Dosemu works very
well...
It has already been done in the past, mas it was slackware based and as
soon as released had no mantainance, so it went dead.
*) you get all the drivers to run on any hardware
*) you can run multiple FreeDOS instan
> I am interested in writing a new driver, one that would allow you to
> boot and run dos on a EXT3 partition.
booting from EXT3 would require to make EXT3 part of the kernel.
not going to happen.
otoh there is virtually no disadvantage to have a loadable TSR to make
EXT3 available as a redirecto
> Maybe, but ext3 was designed as a multithreading FS. The
> multithreading becomes single threading so performance would far
> worse, and possibly even worse than FAT16/32 or ext3
of course a multithreading FS (read ahead and write behind caching)
has a huge number of advantages which aren't ava
I am interested in writing a new driver, one that would allow you to
boot and run dos on a EXT3 partition. In your other message you said
that ETX3 was a multithreaded fs. In that case it would be wiser to
first add multithreaded support to the FreeDOS kernel. It will be
hard, but well worth th
Maybe, but ext3 was designed as a multithreading FS. The
multithreading becomes single threading so performance would far
worse, and possibly even worse than FAT16/32 or ext3 over redirector.
On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 3:00 PM, Till wrote:
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> Quoting João Jerónimo :
>
>> Wouldn't it be better to u
Quoting João Jerónimo :
> Wouldn't it be better to use a redirector? This can be done with a TSR.
>
> João Jerónimo
>
A TSR redirector would be great for assigning an EXT3 drive to a drive
letter for standard I/O operations. However a kernel driver would
allow freeDOS to boot and run from
Hiren's BootCD has had something called Paragon Mount Everything 3.0.
Or are you interested in writing a new driver?
On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 1:28 PM, Ralf Quint wrote:
> On 8/14/2015 12:38 AM, Daniel G. wrote:
>> Greetings,
>>
>> I was reading the FreeDOS development wish-list and adding ext3
>>
On 8/14/2015 12:38 AM, Daniel G. wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I was reading the FreeDOS development wish-list and adding ext3
> support to the FreeDOS kernel is on the list. Is anyone working on
> this at this time?
>
Doubtful. It's more likely just wishful thinking from someone who
doesn't know what
Wouldn't it be better to use a redirector? This can be done with a TSR.
João Jerónimo
On 14-08-2015 08:38, Daniel G. wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I was reading the FreeDOS development wish-list and adding ext3
> support to the FreeDOS kernel is on the list. Is anyone working on
> this at this time?
Greetings,
I was reading the FreeDOS development wish-list and adding ext3
support to the FreeDOS kernel is on the list. Is anyone working on
this at this time?
Thank you for your time.
God Bless.
Till
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