OK, here we have another off-topic post, but it does involve FreeDOS.
I put FreeDOS on an old computer going into a business that still uses DOS
stations for their networked main business application. But the business
has changed hands, and all documentation and software installation disks are
At 10:46 PM 8/3/2006 +0200, Japheth wrote:
>Blair Campbell wrote:
> >> I renamed directory FDOS to FDOSALT. About 6,5 MB free space are left
> on C:
> >>
> >> - I booted from CD and select Install, FD does not complain!
> >
> > I am so sorry. I forgot to include the updated install.exe ! I
>
Blair Campbell wrote:
>> I renamed directory FDOS to FDOSALT. About 6,5 MB free space are left on C:
>>
>> - I booted from CD and select Install, FD does not complain!
>
> I am so sorry. I forgot to include the updated install.exe ! I
> have re-uploaded the ISO with the updated install.exe i
Hi,
I uploaded latest binary & source code of oZone ( 4.9MB ) to
http://www.flox.at.tf (should be avaiable in some minutes)
Just unzip it into a new directory.
What are the main changes? Windows users will be much happier ;-)
I haven't made many changes, but usefull:
The Navigator (Windows user
George Frothingham schreef:
> I have noted that FD will not read a diskette formatted by MAXELL
> immediately after booting. Once it reads a good diskette it will then read
> the MAXELL. Checking the boot sector of MAXELL disks I found that the code
> for "valid boot record" is not present. Diskett
Japheth schreef:
>> If the major problems that affected people are fixed in this
>> distribution, I will release this ISO and the other ISOs (probably
>> with a few more minor changes) as 1.0. Cheers to everyone for getting
>> this far!
>>
>
> Thanks for the new version!
>
> The good thing is
> I renamed directory FDOS to FDOSALT. About 6,5 MB free space are left on C:
>
> - I booted from CD and select Install, FD does not complain!
I am so sorry. I forgot to include the updated install.exe ! I
have re-uploaded the ISO with the updated install.exe included. The
localize problem
> Another bug is that the path variable is not recognized in autoexec.bat
> E.g. you set path=C:\dos in autoexec.bat and call keyb.exe with can be
> definitely found in C:\dos I always get an error message "unrecognized
> command"
What does the SET command display? Does it display the path variabl
I have noted that FD will not read a diskette formatted by MAXELL
immediately after booting. Once it reads a good diskette it will then read
the MAXELL. Checking the boot sector of MAXELL disks I found that the code
for "valid boot record" is not present. Diskettes by other manufacturers do
have th
>> (without emm386...)
>> C:\> prompt has appeared, there still comes the message "error reading from
>> drive A: DOS area: drive not ready (A)bort ". So this bug has *not* been
>> fixed :(.
>
> Actually for me it accessed B: each time when the prompt appeared,
> I think it was a problem in $P
> During the installation process i got some dozens "[undefined message X.X]"
That would be LOCALIZE, trying to display a message for which the
translation cannot be found in the localize.%LANG% file, maybe because
the whole file cannot be found. LOCALIZE has a fallback mode which
lets it show an
> Hmm, can you guys add some better LFN support? I disagree with the Microsoft
> kludge.
> Maybe store them into descript.ion files or invent a new FS for freedos,
> call it say, FAT64 that has it designed in proper like. :)
Actually command.com can already use descript.ion for DIR, but
on the ot
On 8/3/06, CK Raju <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A large number of hardware vendors of Desktop PC in India are already
> shipping machines configured with FreeDOS. Advertisements appear almost on a
> daily basis in major newspapers. That's great promotion for FreeDOS
> community.
Firstly, let me s
Hi!
2-Авг-2006 23:19 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Evans) wrote to
:
CE> Hmm, can you guys add some better LFN support?
No. Especially, all solutions have own +, but also own -.
CE> I disagree with the Microsoft kludge. M
Unfortunately, this disagree doesn't counted... :(
CE> Maybe stor
After the first installation I wanted to test if FD is now able to detect if
it has enough free space (or at least is able to abort the install process in
a friendly manner).
I renamed directory FDOS to FDOSALT. About 6,5 MB free space are left on C:
- I booted from CD and select Install, FD do
this is the c:\fdos\fdauto.bat which was generated. May give a hint where the
"messages" are coming from.
@echo off
SET dosdir=C:\FDOS
SET LFN=N
set PATH=%dosdir%\bin
set NLSPATH=%dosdir%\NLS
set HELPPATH=%dosdir%\HELP
set temp=%dosdir%\temp
set tmp=%dosdir%\temp
SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330
RE
> If the major problems that affected people are fixed in this
> distribution, I will release this ISO and the other ISOs (probably
> with a few more minor changes) as 1.0. Cheers to everyone for getting
> this far!
Thanks for the new version!
The good thing is: I got a running system with the f
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