[Freedos-user] re: Questions & praise

2004-03-05 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Mika! > 1. ... need a DOS-compatible driver from the modem ...? No, modems work with generic drivers under all operating systems. Some operating systems have extra drivers to allow optimized usage. Note that your modem has to be a generic serial port one (internal or external) to work with Fr

[Freedos-user] Questions & praise

2004-03-05 Thread Mika Salakka
Hi fellas, I'm new to FreeDOS and have a few questions... 1: How can I go about connecting to the Internet from FreeDOS? Do I need a DOS-compatible driver from the modem manufacturer (Conexant) or does FreeDOS come with a generic driver that might work? What kind of apps will I need? Basically al

Re: [Freedos-user] Using FreeDOS on a disk image for a bootcd and a few other tricks

2004-03-05 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 5-Мар-2004 09:21 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nicholas Basso) wrote to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: NB> I need to find out if there's a way I can use FreeDOS's sys command to write NB> a floppy bootsector to say a file? SYS a: bootsec.fil --- This S

[Freedos-user] re: Using FreeDOS on a disk image for a bootcd...

2004-03-05 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Nicholas! Please be a bit more careful... > I've got xmsdsk set up to make a 32 MB RAMdisk. > When I try to do anything with said > ramdisk I get an error message, similar to "XMSDsk" or "MS-RAMDRIVE" and > "DOS PART: SECTOR NOT FOUND" No helpful error description. Try using - other XMS drive

Re: [Freedos-user] Using FreeDOS on a disk image for a bootcd and a few other tricks

2004-03-05 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Nicholas, (no duplicate posts received here from you) I too have a 5.7 MB floppydiskette image, downloaded from some Russian site. it had freedos bootsector in it. you mention Win98, so you have access to win98. if so, download WinImage (www.winimage.com) and you can open the image and replace fil

[Freedos-user] Sorry about multiple emails

2004-03-05 Thread Nicholas Basso
It seems my email program has had conniptions a few times for no apparent reasons, so I'll try and see if I can't fix that. you shouldn't receive ANY more duplicates from me, but if you do please be patient I'm not TRYING to screw this up. :) Thanks. Nicholas -

[Freedos-user] Using FreeDOS on a disk image for a bootcd and a few other tricks

2004-03-05 Thread Nicholas Basso
Okay, I've got an image (4*1.44 MB) that I'm using for a boot disk image. Booting the image is not a problem (memdisk from an isolinux module in bootscriptor, LONG story, and a few other techniques if that doesn't work) the problem is fdxms and xmsdsk. I've got xmsdsk set up to make a 32 MB RAMdis

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Help Update

2004-03-05 Thread Henrique Peron
Hi, > On DISPLAY's side there's another thing that could be done: the fonts > can be set in a format called DR-FONTs, where they are compressed. > However, I don't know much about this format, and I don't know if > Henrique is able to create CPIs that have DR-FONTs instead of fonts. So Sorry,

[Freedos-user] Re: problem with dosgir

2004-03-05 Thread BuSab
> probably a bug in FreeCOM (FreeDOS command.com). > even if you load in F5 mode, the right-arrow lets you see some strange > characters, so that means the keyboard buffer has contents. > > there are other shells instead of FreeCOM, but you would have to search > for them yourself (4Dos, MS comma

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Help Update

2004-03-05 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Hi, Bernd Blaauw escribió: OK, had a brief look ZIP support is REALLY great! saves lots of space. maybe Keyb or Display projects can borrow your code for this since they have many files, bunt only a single one is used. zip them up :) DISPLAY: Actually the file is opened by "MODE", copied ino a