[Freedos-user] Freedos-user basic how-to questions...

2013-05-08 Thread Pierre LaMontagne
Hi All, I'm fairly new to FreeDOS having discovered it (installed) only about a month ago. I really love it as it has repurposed an older PC a LOT of my very old floppies associated software of yesteryear (1980's +). Anyway, I have 2 how-to questions that I'm hoping I can get help with... 1

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos-user basic how-to questions...

2013-05-08 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 9:15 AM, Pierre LaMontagne plamo...@comcast.net wrote: I'm fairly new to FreeDOS having discovered it (installed) only about a month ago. I really love it as it has repurposed an older PC a LOT of my very old floppies associated software of yesteryear (1980's +).

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos-user basic how-to questions...

2013-05-08 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Pierre LaMontagne schreef op 8-5-2013 16:15: 1 How can I use my USB flash drives in FDOS? I checked my CMOS settings. 'Legacy USB' support is enabled, but when I tried accessing the flash drive in FDOS, it wasn't available. I'm assuming, once working, I would be able to use it as a floppy?

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos-user Digest, Vol 783, Issue 1

2013-05-08 Thread Pierre LaMontagne
From: rugx...@gmail.com Since you already mentioned very old floppies, does this mean some of your machines don't have (the appropriately-sized) floppy drives? Yes, exactly. I didn't elaborate earlier, but that is the case. By floppies, I'm referring to the 3.5 1.44mb ones although, I even

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos-user Digest, Vol 783, Issue 1

2013-05-08 Thread Chris Evans
Uhci is another fancy way to say USB controller On Wednesday, May 8, 2013, Pierre LaMontagne wrote: From: rugx...@gmail.com javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'rugx...@gmail.com'); Since you already mentioned very old floppies, does this mean some of your machines don't have (the

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos-user basic how-to questions...

2013-05-08 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Pierre :-) 1 How can I use my USB flash drives in FDOS? I checked my CMOS settings. 'Legacy USB' support is enabled, but when I tried accessing the flash drive in FDOS, it wasn't available. I'm assuming, once working, I would be able to use it as a floppy? This would allow me to put

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos-user Digest, Vol 783, Issue 1

2013-05-08 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Pierre LaMontagne plamo...@comcast.net wrote: You're right though, I have 3 modern PCs with Win 7 on them, none of which have a floppy drive controller. Almost none of them have it pre-installed these days. I bought a Sony USB-hosted floppy drive, and it