Re: [Freedos-user] Trying to run a Dell bios update exe in FreeDOS 1.2

2018-01-16 Thread Christian Imhorst
Hi, what kind of Dell do you have? Do you know their support page? There is a tutorial how to flash the Bios with FreeDOS or with a Linux system installed: https://www.dell.com/support/article/de/de/debsdt1/sln171755/updating-the-dell-bios-in-linux-and-ubuntu-environments?lang=en Hope it can

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos V2.0 - when will it be available?

2015-12-30 Thread christian . imhorst
Hi Alain, sorry for my late response. I downloaded your VM on the day you talked about it here on this list and tested it in VirtualBox. I found it really interesting. Thank you very much for your work. Lubuntu started very fast and the integration of Dosemu and FreeDOS looks interesting. Do

Re: [Freedos-user] Is anyone installed FreeDOS from USB CD drive or other USB device?

2015-10-02 Thread Christian Imhorst
Hi, just for correction: I have moved FreeDOSmultiboot.zip from Github to my web space and deleted the outdated Repo on Github: http://www.datenteiler.de/install-freedos-1-1-with-freedosmultiboot/ FreeDOSmultiboot can boot a FreeDOS Boot Disk, the FreeDOS Installation CD and Tiny Core Linux

Re: [Freedos-user] Init: Coult not access packet driver at INT 0x60

2015-09-14 Thread Christian Imhorst
Hi, I am using PCNET in Qemu. I start the VM with whis command: qemu-system-i386 -m 128 -hda 'qemu_freedos.img' -net nic,model=pcnet -net user,hostfwd=tcp::5554-:21 -localtime -boot c Among others I have these two lines in my "autoexec.bat" (pcntpk without LH): pcntpk INT=0x60 dhcp I use port

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 Bootable USB Image

2015-06-11 Thread Christian Imhorst
if any of us directly discussed this before, so I'm mentioning it here, in case anyone else finds it interesting. I do vaguely remember Christian Imhorst discussing something similar a year or so ago. Lemme find the link [Freedos-user] Is anyone installed FreeDOS from USB CD drive or other

[Freedos-user] MS-DOS Mobile

2015-04-02 Thread Christian Imhorst
Hi all, if you have a Windows Phone 8 by accident you may found the MS-DOS Mobile App interesting: http://www.windowsphone.com/s?appid=8573c4a8-b9df-4409-90a6-dad2dc0b6b26 Microsoft published this App yesterday on April Fools Day and it is really funny with loads of easter eggs. MS-DOS Mobile

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS article for freiesMagazin

2014-11-06 Thread Christian Imhorst
Hi all, maybe you like to know that I wrote an article about FreeDOS Totgesagte leben länger for the current issue of freiesMagazin: http://www.freiesmagazin.de/20141102-novemberausgabe-erschienen freiesMagazin.de is a free - under CC-BY-SA-4.0 international license - online magazine for

Re: [Freedos-user] Resize partition without data loss

2014-10-23 Thread Christian Imhorst
Hi all, thank you very much for your great suggestions. Especially FIPS and Partition Resizer. I tried both, but I am only able to resize partitions with these programs and not to merge two partions to one. I'll try GParted and hope it will do it well. Thanks a lot. Christian Am 22.10.2014

[Freedos-user] Resize partition without data loss

2014-10-21 Thread Christian Imhorst
Hi, I have a 500MB FreeDOS partition on a 4 GB virtual hard disk. The rest of the disk is empty. Is it possible to resize the 500 MB to the whole disk without losing data? Do I use FDISK for this or another program? Thanks in advance. Best regards Christian

Re: [Freedos-user] MetaDOS floppy distro (was: Re: How do you transfer files to your FreeDOS machine)

2014-09-30 Thread Christian Imhorst
Hi, thank you very much for sharing METADOS. To me it looks very interesting and I like the idea of having a FreeDOS live distro, too. VMDK files are nice but I am using Qemu mainly. Therfore I was delighted that METADOS is an IMG file. ;-) To complement your METADOS.TXT I use the PCNET driver

Re: [Freedos-user] Reply:Re: Is anyone installed FreeDOS from USB CD drive or other USB device?

2014-09-06 Thread Christian Imhorst
. In other words, in short, There is no way to install FreeDOS through FreeDOS ISO installation file from the USB device dierctly. I hope the installer don't so smart and complicated, so that I can install it manually. Thank you again for your help. Regards ?2014-08-29,Christian Imhorst

Re: [Freedos-user] Is anyone installed FreeDOS from USB CD drive or other USB device?

2014-08-28 Thread Christian Imhorst
Hi yes I have built an usb stick with FreeDOS ISO to install. I work with GNU/Linux and I have prepared the stick with one partition fdisk /dev/sdX and formated the stick with FAT32: mkfs.vfat -F 32 -n freedos /dev/sdX1 The letter X stands for your real path, probably it's /dev/sdb for the

[Freedos-user] How to install FA511 PCMCIA Network Card

2014-07-19 Thread Christian Imhorst
Hi, I have installed FreeDos 1.1 on my Toshiba Tecra 8000. Now I try to get my NETGEAR FA511 32-bit PCMCIA LAN card working. I have copied FA511.COM and NET.CFG from the NETGEAR CD-ROM with drivers to C:\NWCLIENT together with some files who are needed to start networking. So I run LSL.COM from

Re: [Freedos-user] How to install FA511 PCMCIA Network Card

2014-07-19 Thread Christian Imhorst
=C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT --- Best regards Christian On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 2:41 AM, Christian Imhorst christian.imho...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have installed FreeDos 1.1 on my Toshiba Tecra 8000. Now I try to get my NETGEAR FA511 32-bit PCMCIA LAN card working. I have copied FA511.COM