[Freedos-user] Freedos needs hardware testing tools...

2009-03-19 Thread Michael Robinson
Something specific to my hardware on my 486 DX2 66 must be causing fdupdate to crash, but there seem to be no diagnosis tools to find out what that is. Please rectify this problem. I want something that detects resource conflicts, flaky memory, etcetera.

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos needs hardware testing tools...

2009-03-19 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! Something specific to my hardware on my 486 DX2 66 must be causing fdupdate to crash, but there seem to be no diagnosis tools to find out what that is. Please rectify this problem. I want something that detects resource conflicts, flaky memory, etcetera. First try to boot without

[Freedos-user] unload previsiously loaded exe and sys on fdconfig.sys

2009-03-19 Thread Fabrício Ceolin
Hi, I want free some freedos memory after using a packet driver and others sys (under fdconfig.sys) and exe (like doskey). There are any way to unload programs without reboot? Thanks! -- Fabrício Ceolin ulevel.com Diretor Executivo

[Freedos-user] Installation Problems

2009-03-19 Thread usul
Hello I am having problems installing the current version. I get everything completed and it seems to be ok, fdisked and set 2g to the os as primary partition, active and after booting from the CD Rom I can go to the c: and see all the files including the system ones. but when I try and boot from

Re: [Freedos-user] unload previsiously loaded exe and sys on fdconfig.sys

2009-03-19 Thread Christian Masloch
Hi, I want free some freedos memory after using a packet driver and others sys (under fdconfig.sys) and exe (like doskey). There are any way to unload programs without reboot? The best method is to use programs that provide unloading as option so that they can properly unload themself.

Re: [Freedos-user] unload previsiously loaded exe and sys on fdconfig.sys

2009-03-19 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, I want free some freedos memory after using a packet driver and others sys (under fdconfig.sys) and exe (like doskey). I recommend to have 2 different config sys menu items: With and without internet :-). Doskey should not be necessary, FreeCOM and 4DOS have built-in history... There

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS on Virtual PC 2007

2009-03-19 Thread Michael Horvath
Hi! I am having trouble with FreeDOS on Virtual PC 2007. I am able to install it OK, and two of the three (four?) boot options work. Option #2 (the default, and the one that doesn't work) results in the following error: Illegal instruction occured. CS= IP=EEC3 SS=D0B4 SP=0004 ES=0070

Re: [Freedos-user] Installation Problems

2009-03-19 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Usul, Hello I am having problems installing the current version. I get everything completed and it seems to be ok, fdisked and set 2g to the os as primary partition, active You can easily use more with FAT32 and LBA... and after booting from the CD Rom I can go to the c: and see all

[Freedos-user] Installation difficulties...

2009-03-19 Thread John Ames
Okay. I would really like to use FreeDOS, preferrably the full-install CD, and definitely with USB disk support. Problem is, the NIC in the computer I want to install it on (a 3Com 3C595-TX) does not appear to be recognized by either the default packet driver or the manufacturer's DOS driver,

Re: [Freedos-user] Installation difficulties...

2009-03-19 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, Okay. I would really like to use FreeDOS, preferrably the full-install CD, and definitely with USB disk support. Problem is, the NIC in the computer I On modern PC, your BIOS already does USB disk support for you and DOS. For the others, you can try the USB drivers made by Georg Potthast:

[Freedos-user] I want to port drivewire to freedos...

2009-03-19 Thread Michael Robinson
I have the C source code for the 1.7 release that is meant for Linux. I want to port this code to freedos and build a gem compatible interface for it. Drivewire, for those who don't know, is a piece of software that allows a color computer 1/2/3 to access via serial port a modern computer and

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos needs hardware testing tools...

2009-03-19 Thread Michael Robinson
On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 10:25 +0100, Eric Auer wrote: Hi! Something specific to my hardware on my 486 DX2 66 must be causing fdupdate to crash, but there seem to be no diagnosis tools to find out what that is. Please rectify this problem. I want something that detects resource

Re: [Freedos-user] I want to port drivewire to freedos...

2009-03-19 Thread Blair Campbell
Now then, the Linux version depends on specific Linux only C libraries.  I need to know what the equivalent libraries are under Freedos and as necessary I will need to recode if the dos equivalent library is different. O.K. It looks like it depends at least on pthreads, curses, termios, and