Re: [Freedos-user] Now it gets odd Re: FreeDOS workaround for hidden IDE controller?

I'm going to try using RMPrepUSB to put the FreeDOS USB install image onto a USB stick. Why? Because it's supposed to be able to be selected to emulate an A: floppy drive (or as C: or D:) instead of presenting itself as C: like the FreeDOS image does. Recall that the FreeDOS installer initially

Re: [Freedos-user] External Commands?

On Sun, Jan 7, 2018 at 6:45 PM, Curtis Collins wrote: > I installed full FreeDos to USB and it boots and works fine. Only problem is > there are none of the usual external commands like "chkdsk". There are > descriptions of various packages on the project web

Re: [Freedos-user] Running FreeDOS floppy from a BIOS chip

If a way could be found to replace ThinOS on various models of WYSE thin clients, they'd be ideal platforms for an embedded DOS. ThinOS usually shares space in an extra large BIOS chip. Installing it might involve a bit of hacking to make the OS installer creator utility setup a USB flash drive

[Freedos-user] External Commands?

I installed full FreeDos to USB and it boots and works fine. Only problem is there are none of the usual external commands like "chkdsk". There are descriptions of various packages on the project web site, but no correlating images to downaload. How do I get all the usual external commands?

Re: [Freedos-user] Running FreeDOS floppy from a BIOS chip

Hi, On Sun, Jan 7, 2018 at 2:20 PM, Ivan Ivanov wrote: > > Because I am taking coreboot+SeaBIOS in attention, these hobby OS > suddenly become very useful for me : e.g. KolibriOS floppy is likely > the only way > to connect to the internet from a web browser (although a

Re: [Freedos-user] FOSDEM Retrocomputing DevRoom CfP

My talk was accepted so I'll be presenting in 4 weeks: https://fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/dosemu_and_freedos_past_present_future/ Bart On 1 December 2017 at 08:56, Bart Oldeman wrote: > Hi guys, > > (still lurking but not a lot of time... over the past

Re: [Freedos-user] Would you use a native 32/64-bit FreeDOS/BIOS system?

Hi! > I was thinking that it could become necessary to start implementing a > FreeDOS version that included natively its own BIOS, and that this > combination of FreeDOS/BIOS is implemented entirely native as 32 or > 64-bit code... In my opinion: 1. is a very good idea. Something which boots

Re: [Freedos-user] Running FreeDOS floppy from a BIOS chip

On 1/7/2018 10:29 AM, Ivan Ivanov wrote: doubt that any of those have any real purpose at least some of these hobby OS could be useful in real life (for not-hobby purposes) , e.g. KolibriOS - many kinds of personal computing including web browsing, Visopsys - disk partitioning, 9front -

Re: [Freedos-user] Would you use a native 32/64-bit FreeDOS/BIOS system?

Maybe you can use the open source coreboot/SeaBIOS projects? It would be stupid to write your own BIOS from scratch, much better to just take these successful implementations and use them By the way, if you have coreboot-supported motherboard, it is already possible with 1 simple command to

Re: [Freedos-user] Would you use a native 32/64-bit FreeDOS/BIOS system?

On Sat, Jan 06, 2018 at 04:15:08PM +, Samuel V. via Freedos-user wrote: > I was thinking that it could become necessary to start implementing a FreeDOS > version that included natively its own BIOS, and that this combination of > FreeDOS/BIOS is implemented entirely native as 32 or 64-bit

Re: [Freedos-user] Running FreeDOS floppy from a BIOS chip

> doubt that any of those have any real purpose at least some of these hobby OS could be useful in real life (for not-hobby purposes) , e.g. KolibriOS - many kinds of personal computing including web browsing, Visopsys - disk partitioning, 9front - modern Plan 9 fork with all its utilities,

Re: [Freedos-user] Running FreeDOS floppy from a BIOS chip

On 1/7/2018 3:33 AM, Jerome Shidel wrote: OSDev wiki has FreeDOS at #1! Ok, technically, Kolibri out ranks it at #0. But, we can say it is #1. http://wiki.osdev.org/Notable_Projects Well, great. Kind of... Haven't even heard of any of the others on that list and doubt that any of those

Re: [Freedos-user] Running FreeDOS floppy from a BIOS chip

Hi, > On Jan 7, 2018, at 5:39 AM, Ivan Ivanov wrote: > […] > I wish you good luck in your project, FreeDOS is awesome > Also it has been listed amoung Top 10 Notable projects at OSDev wiki > Would be happy to see its' story continued OSDev wiki has FreeDOS at #1! Ok,

[Freedos-user] Running FreeDOS floppy from a BIOS chip

I tested your OS with Virtual Box: FreeDOS is amazing ; and - most importantly - it has a live floppy! Even today the floppies are still being used, for example - as virtual floppies inside the coreboot open source BIOS. Just imagine: your wonderful OS could be a part of someone's BIOS build! (for