Re: [Freedos-user] Installation problems

2009-03-21 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Braden, I've formatted my hard disk, installed the boot manager using the option in xfdisk and installed freedos. Yet, LILO continues to remain the boot manager on my hard disk and only shows LINUX as an available kernel. Sure - DOS does not modify files on your Linux partition such as

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on Virtual PC 2007

2009-03-21 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! Line #1 in batchfile 'A:\INSTALL.BAT' too long Please post the first line of A:\INSTALL.BAT. Good catch! When I read the batch file in FreeDOS the file is full of gibberish. In Notepad on my WinXP machine, however, it is a properly formatted text file. Very strange. Maybe you saved

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on Virtual PC 2007

2009-03-21 Thread Michael Horvath
Eric Auer wrote: Very strange. Maybe you saved it in Unicode / UTF-8? Or in Word or something ;-) You could try other free or shareware editors like TextPad to make sure that your file is really text. Of course it could also be the case that something on your filesystem confuses DOS and the

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on Virtual PC 2007

2009-03-21 Thread David C. Kerber
I'd give pretty long odds that it's unicode. -Original Message- From: Eric Auer [mailto:e.a...@jpberlin.de] Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 8:52 AM To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on Virtual PC 2007 Hi! Line #1 in batchfile

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on Virtual PC 2007

2009-03-21 Thread Michael Horvath
k...@comcast.net wrote: Hi Mike: I use VFD to do this under Windows. (It's easy under Linux). See http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/vfd.html. You can mount the image as a floppy drive and copy files to/from it, format it, etc.. The other programs I know about cost money...