[Freedos-user] Running DOS in full screen mode

2013-05-16 Thread skipgenco
I have an old Dell laptop latitude and have removed the operation system and reformatted the hard drive. I installed fdos and ansi.sys and have inserted ansi.sys in the config.sys file and set the con to 80,25 but I still get a small window in the center of the screen. Does anyone know how to

Re: [Freedos-user] Running DOS in full screen mode

2013-05-16 Thread Marcos Favero Florence de Barros
Hi Skip, I have an old Dell laptop latitude and have removed the operation system and reformatted the hard drive. I installed fdos and ansi.sys and have inserted ansi.sys in the config.sys file and set the con to 80,25 but I still get a small window in the center of the screen. Does anyone

Re: [Freedos-user] Any interest in 486, 586, 686 kernels?

2013-05-16 Thread Tom Ehlert
Dear Louis, a few points a) the FreeDOS project isn't very interested in a BC5 compiled kernel because BC5 isn't freely available/open source; I also doubt the output of BC5 will be significant better then the OW output. feel free to experiment, but don't expect us to be excited ;) So,

[Freedos-user] Any Windows files useful for FreeDOS?

2013-05-16 Thread Marcos Favero Florence de Barros
Hi, I got an old laptop with Windows 2000 Professional (NT). I will now change the file system to FAT16, and install FreeDOS. However, before erasing Windows, I'm wondering whether there are files, such as drivers or some such thing, which I should keep in order to use with FreeDOS. Would such

Re: [Freedos-user] Any Windows files useful for FreeDOS?

2013-05-16 Thread Marco Achury
El 16/05/2013 07:18 p.m., Marcos Favero Florence de Barros escribió: Hi, I got an old laptop with Windows 2000 Professional (NT). I will now change the file system to FAT16, and install FreeDOS. However, before erasing Windows, I'm wondering whether there are files, such as drivers or some

Re: [Freedos-user] Any Windows files useful for FreeDOS?

2013-05-16 Thread Marcos Favero Florence de Barros
Hi, I got an old laptop with Windows 2000 Professional (NT). I will now change the file system to FAT16, and install FreeDOS. Can't you dual boot?? [..] Search Google for boot.ini or such. I did, and found the procedure much too complicated. In fact, the reason why I use FreeDOS in the

Re: [Freedos-user] Any Windows files useful for FreeDOS?

2013-05-16 Thread dmccunney
On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 8:03 PM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 6:48 PM, Marcos Favero Florence de Barros fav...@mpcnet.com.br wrote: I got an old laptop with Windows 2000 Professional (NT). I will now change the file system to FAT16, and install FreeDOS. Can't you