Re: [Freedos-user] GRUB 2.00 Freedos support (Rugxulo)

2012-07-01 Thread Garry Ricketson
I am not positive,but I believe that is the version I have,on which version of GRUB I have, but it works great, with linux mint 10,..when I installed freedos 1.1, on it's own dedicated partition, all I had to do , is type, sudo update-grub at the terminal, and it put my freedos partition in the

[Freedos-user] Printer?

2012-07-01 Thread Kenny
Hey, I just realized that there is the "graphics-ps, graphpin, graph-hp" command(s). Could I somehow use those to make FreeDOS run a newer HP printer (one that isn't a dot-matrix)? --- A FreeDOS User -- Live Secu

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS compatibility with DOS applications

2012-07-01 Thread C. Masloch
> Recently there was a thread > about concurrent file access in the network - apparently FreeDOS > SHARE and kernel support for it are not as good as in MS DOS ... where this "not as good" support apparently amounts to "may corrupt your file system when concurrent write access occurs". This, nat

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS compatibility with DOS applications

2012-07-01 Thread Karen Lewellen
I strongly suggest you do your own research here. for example there is a ms dos package 7.1 which is augmented with dos utilities from 2003 and 2005, far more current than 18 years ago. Of course enhanced Dr does is maintained regularly. As someone who uses dos exclusively, I can tell you tha

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS compatibility with DOS applications

2012-07-01 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! > How compatible is FreeDOS with applications written to other DOS > operating systems(for example MS-DOS and Windows 95/98/ME, PC-DOS, > DR-DOS)? Are there any known specific utilities or more complex DOS > applications which do not work under FreeDOS? Or is FreeDOS fully > compatible with (

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS compatibility with DOS applications

2012-07-01 Thread Martin T
How compatible is FreeDOS with applications written to other DOS operating systems(for example MS-DOS and Windows 95/98/ME, PC-DOS, DR-DOS)? Are there any known specific utilities or more complex DOS applications which do not work under FreeDOS? Or is FreeDOS fully compatible with (all other) DOS v

Re: [Freedos-user] adding executable file to FreeDOS 1.1 installation image

2012-07-01 Thread Martin T
Geraldo, yes, after devloading the CD-ROM driver and associating it with a drive, I'm able to access atiflash.exe and ROM images. However, I need to find a solution to boot FreeDOS from USB memory stick :) Bernd, thank you for those commands! Am I technically correct that "DEVLOAD ELTORITO.SYS