Re: [Freedos-user] Strongly recommended reading...

2007-06-06 Thread chris evans
But of course it is always good to remember that we have to remind ourselves to write good code in open source. Because we are not paid for FreeDOS, there is no quality control dept either. On the other hand, there could be one - working with volunteers, just like our software devel dept :-).

[Freedos-user] bootable DOS on HDD

2007-06-06 Thread wolfgang.bujatti
Hello list! I created with BootIt NG a primary partion 512 MB, FAT16, set active, swap drive 0 (is this needed for FreeDOS or does only Windows boot from HD0?). Than I created the full FreeDOS CD and booted and installed form CD nearly everything. When I try to bot from this HD or BootIt boot

Re: [Freedos-user] bootable DOS on HDD

2007-06-06 Thread Jim Hall
On 6/6/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello list! I created with BootIt NG a primary partion 512 MB, FAT16, set active, swap drive 0 (is this needed for FreeDOS or does only Windows boot from HD0?). Than I created the full FreeDOS CD and booted and installed form CD nearly

Re: [Freedos-user] bootable DOS on HDD

2007-06-06 Thread Wolfgang Bujatti
I'm able to boot now, but with errors: 1. EMM386 selected page frame e000 not availible searching, no suitible frame found EMS functions limited 2. Bad or missing Command interpreter: C:\FDOS\bin\command.com C:\FDOS\bin /E:1/P=C:\auotexec.bat Enter full st. commandline: C is now with FDOS

Re: [Freedos-user] bootable DOS on HDD

2007-06-06 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Wolfgang, I'm able to boot now, but with errors: What did you change? 1. EMM386 selected page frame e000 not availible searching, no suitible frame found EMS functions limited Your hardware has too many data exchange areas and BIOSes in the area between 640k and 1 MB, so DOS cannot

[Freedos-user] Installed on top of WinMe: system unusable.

2007-06-06 Thread Grant Edwards
I tried to install FreeDOS 1.0 folling the HOWTO and it appears to have failed rather miserably: 1) The HOWTO says it will create a boot menu that will allow me to dual-boot. It didn't. I can no-longer boot WinMe. 2) No editors. emacs can't find it's .ed files, and none of the vi

Re: [Freedos-user] bootable DOS on HDD

2007-06-06 Thread Alain M.
2. Bad or missing Command interpreter: C:\FDOS\bin\command.com C:\FDOS\bin /E:1/P=C:\auotexec.bat That should mean exactly that. The command.com file is not found, maybe because the install did not fully complete. it could also be that you boot from CD boot area, which becomes A: so you