Re: [Freedos-user] Cobalt OS 1.1

2016-02-22 Thread Don Flowers
Smart Boot Manager or Grub4DOS https://sourceforge.net/projects/btmgr/ http://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/boot/grub4dos/ SBM installs in MBR so no need for extra partition. Grub4DOS will install boot code in MBR and GRLDR in FreeDOS partition. On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at

Re: [Freedos-user] Poor mouse pointer visibility in Edit

2016-02-20 Thread Don Flowers
I use this neat little mouse pointer it's pretty cool. http://www.pcorner.com/list/GRAPHUTI/PP111.ZIP/INFO/ On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 5:27 PM, John Hupp wrote: > With the default installation of FreeDOS 1.1 on real hardware (Pentium > II @ 300 MHz, 48 MB, ATI 3D Rage Pro AGP video with 4 MB), I fi

Re: [Freedos-user] HX DOS extender with AC97 and HDA soundcard support

2016-02-18 Thread Don Flowers
I got it to work through DOSBOX in Linux Xubuntu, but not in FreeDOS on an Acer Laptop. It was cool to hear sound in Xargon and PakuPaku. Will try to run it today on a HP/Compaq DC5700 desktop after I switch my audio cables. On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 1:39 AM, Guillem León wrote: > Hi. > Yeah, onl

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2+ Preview 12 - Now with Dimples

2016-02-13 Thread Don Flowers
I booted from the CD not USB , but my extreme test machine has 3 hard drives wth various "C" drives among them. Even with XOSL hiding partitions, I think the installer may not be prepared for setting drives beyond "D;" "lastdrive=Z" notwithstanding. Your rewrite should do the trick. --

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2+ Preview 12 - Now with Dimples

2016-02-12 Thread Don Flowers
Downloaded and burned to CD. Lots of "Error writing to drive A: DOS area write protection violation attempted" errors. Is there reason I am getting this? On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 7:27 PM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. wrote: > Hello all, > > Just released FDI Preview 12. > > Some major non-UI underlying c

Re: [Freedos-user] boot manager for dOs?

2016-02-05 Thread Don Flowers
Reviving this thread to post an update: I am trying to stay in FreeDOS on one of my PC's. I installed GRUB4DOS and am pleased with configuration options, I can boot CDROM's of various emulationn, I can boot PLOP Boot Manager to Boot USB flash drives (no more searching for PLOP floppies around the h

Re: [Freedos-user] INTERLINK

2016-02-05 Thread Don Flowers
I had to install NON-ECC RAM to eliminate the MCB error On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 12:05 PM, wrote: > Have tried with latest* kernel, there is a fixed bug in int 25/26 that may > effect it. > > You may want to try RIFS as well, it has source, but I don't recall if it > used serial, parallel, or eith

Re: [Freedos-user] INTERLINK

2016-02-05 Thread Don Flowers
FileMaven is ok for small file transfers, I happen to have LapLink V and it works the best for me, but still speed is limited on serial ports. I have been trying to configure a LAN crosslink transfer but no luck so far. Until then USB is my goto for file tranfers. On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 6:45 AM,

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 Preview 11

2016-02-03 Thread Don Flowers
lo Don, > > > On Feb 3, 2016, at 1:47 PM, Don Flowers wrote: > > > > Day after observation: I am getting an A: drive redirect when I try to > copy files by "COPY" command. One file will copy to the desired directory > and then it searches for the A: drive.

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 Preview 11

2016-02-03 Thread Don Flowers
Day after observation: I am getting an A: drive redirect when I try to copy files by "COPY" command. One file will copy to the desired directory and then it searches for the A: drive. Would this be a glitch from the installer? On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 8:35 PM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. wrote: > > > On

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 Preview 11

2016-02-02 Thread Don Flowers
drive- this causes write protection on the USB (as it should) with installer "confused" about how to handle the "ABORT, RETRY, IGNORE error. Installation failed. On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 7:57 AM, Don Flowers wrote: > Very impressive "beta?" installer. I tested it seve

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 Preview 11

2016-02-02 Thread Don Flowers
Very impressive "beta?" installer. I tested it several ways; the test machine is a Compaq Armada 1750 Laptop, PII MMX with 320MB ram a 60gb hard drive and a CDROM drive. 1) Installed over existing FreeDOS 1.1.1 2) Installed with a blank formatted C: drive 3) Installed with a non-formatted drive.

Re: [Freedos-user] Easy GUI desktop enviroment install

2016-01-29 Thread Don Flowers
Apparently my paste/copy was incomplete. Try this: https://code.google.com/archive/p/nanox-microwindows-nxlib-fltk-for-dos/downloads On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 12:26 PM, Jose Antonio Senna < jasse...@vivointernetdiscada.com.br> wrote: > On 2016-01-27 Don Flowers > XFDOS is the bes

Re: [Freedos-user] XCOPY

2016-01-28 Thread Don Flowers
On a sort of related note (For Mateusz) would it be possible to include XCOPY.EXE on the new all_cd.iso? I can't telll you how many times I have needed XCOPY right off the bat only and because of other issues have not been able to install it and had to "re-burn" a modified CD. I have one more sugge

Re: [Freedos-user] Easy GUI desktop enviroment install

2016-01-27 Thread Don Flowers
XFDOS is the best GUI i have used. https://code.google.com/archive/p/nanox-microwindows-nxlib-fltk-for-dos/downloads USB mouse & keyboard works from BIOS and should not be an issue. If you want "old school" opengem works fairly well as does Tandy Deskmate. For opengem unzip using FreeDOS unzip and

Re: [Freedos-user] UltraDMA warning corrected

2016-01-13 Thread Don Flowers
wrote: > On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 6:04 PM, Jim Hall wrote: > > I am concerned by this statement from Jack's email: "Take a look at > > the sources for Microsoft HIMEM or EMM386, as I have…" This is the > > first I was aware that Jack had reviewed any source code from > > Microsoft. > > > > If som

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on a compute stick

2016-01-08 Thread Don Flowers
My recommendation is dig out your old PC and do a refurb. A quieter PSU can be obtained for $20 and a couple of low rpm fans for $20 I just built a "new" retro machine and I am having a blast! An intel SE440BX-2 motherboard, PIII 500MHz CPU 384 RAM 3.5" & 5.25 Drive, 4 hard drives (two of which ar

Re: [Freedos-user] FDNPKG v0.99.3

2015-12-04 Thread Don Flowers
t be some hardware trouble, or disk/cd driver > incompatibility... > > Mateusz > > > > On 26/11/2015 00:02, Don Flowers wrote: > > I just boot the latest all_cd.iso and the fdnpkg version on it is 0.96 > > > > On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 3:48 PM, Don Flowers >

Re: [Freedos-user] FDNPKG v0.99.3

2015-11-25 Thread Don Flowers
I just boot the latest all_cd.iso and the fdnpkg version on it is 0.96 On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 3:48 PM, Don Flowers wrote: > Hey Mateusz, > I usually start my clean install from the all_cd.iso with FDNPKG install > kernel, but since you announced the update to FDNPKG, I tried t

Re: [Freedos-user] boot manager for dOs?

2015-11-25 Thread Don Flowers
I am currently testing Terabyte BootIT baremetal which is the successor to BING. That said I have had sucess with Smart Boot Manager (it is configurable with the asm package so you can adjust colors and even change the title to correspond to your business). My favorite of the open source BM,s is XO

Re: [Freedos-user] FDNPKG v0.99.3

2015-11-25 Thread Don Flowers
iles to it and the extracted > > the "all_cd" files to a directory on my hard drive and adjusted the > > FDNPKG.CFG file. It works fine this way, but I never had a problem > > with the all_cd before. > > > > On 11/25/15, Mateusz Viste wrote: > >> On 25/11/

Re: [Freedos-user] FDNPKG v0.99.3

2015-11-25 Thread Don Flowers
. It works fine this way, but I never had a problem with the all_cd before. On 11/25/15, Mateusz Viste wrote: > On 25/11/2015 02:05, Don Flowers wrote: >> Been having trouble - did you update the boot.img my fdnpkg is all out >> of whack. > > That's unlikely. I included m

Re: [Freedos-user] FDNPKG v0.99.3

2015-11-24 Thread Don Flowers
Been having trouble - did you update the boot.img my fdnpkg is all out of whack. On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 11:44 AM, Mateusz Viste wrote: > On 24/11/2015 16:32, Dale E Sterner wrote: > > Is there an Ibiblio link? > > As usual, yes :) > > > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/di

Re: [Freedos-user] FDNPKG not working?

2015-11-15 Thread Don Flowers
not download anything I have tried, I even uninstalled (FDNPKG REMOVE) a few packages and then tried to reinstall them to no avail. On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 9:36 AM, Mateusz Viste wrote: > On 15/11/2015 14:30, Don Flowers wrote: > > I have been reinstalling FreeDOS and have my NIC c

[Freedos-user] FDNPKG not working?

2015-11-15 Thread Don Flowers
I have been reinstalling FreeDOS and have my NIC card setup, I have a working connection (am writing this from my DILLODOS browser) but cannot get a download from FDNPKG. I can download to my HD and then install but FDNPKG is stalling. And by the way, if anyone doesn't know yet, Matesuz changed th

Re: [Freedos-user] Sound or Internet - Which would you rather have?

2015-11-11 Thread Don Flowers
n be costly for > goods that need to cross an ocean. > > Anyway, had you the occasion to test the Intel Gigabit packet driver I > suggested earlier? I'm curious to know whether it works on your onbord > LAN card. > > cheers, > Mateusz > > > > On 10/11/2015

Re: [Freedos-user] Sound or Internet - Which would you rather have?

2015-11-10 Thread Don Flowers
nes, usually with Windows 7 > > for 75 - 200$ and there are lots of other companies doing the same. > > > > > > On 11/09/2015 07:07 AM, Don Flowers wrote: > >> Yeah, I should have mentioned that my PC has an onboard Intel 82567LM-3 > >> for which there seems

Re: [Freedos-user] Sound or Internet - Which would you rather have?

2015-11-09 Thread Don Flowers
Yeah, I should have mentioned that my PC has an onboard Intel 82567LM-3 for which there seems to be no DOS option for connectivity and the sound is HD and unrecognisableed by either MPXPlay or Mplayer, I have at least one game that will throw sound out the onboard speaker (Empong). As for buying a

[Freedos-user] Sound or Internet - Which would you rather have?

2015-11-09 Thread Don Flowers
I have only one PCI slot on my PC. I have gone back and forth between a sound card and an ethernet card and cannot make up my mind which is the better option to have. I am not a gamer so no sound is not a deal breaker. I like having the option to use FDNPKG direct from ibiblio, and connecting to Fr

Re: [Freedos-user] question ISO/DATA

2015-10-19 Thread Don Flowers
When you are making the iso what kind of bootable image are you using? For a blank CD, I use FDOEM.144 from here: http://www.fdos.org/bootdisks/ Then I add the drivers for the PC I want to be able to boot since so many new PCs require different various drivers to boot into a DOS environment. Once

Re: [Freedos-user] Can I write .iso files to CD from FreeDOS ?

2015-10-06 Thread Don Flowers
I have been able to clone a hd image to cd, from FreeDOS but have not been successful in actually burning a cdimage to a cd. Why not just zip an installation and copy that to a cd? Then you can use a burner such as WinIso or K3B, use the boot image from the all_cd or another FreeDOS iso (make sure

Re: [Freedos-user] trouble printing in clipper when using freedos

2015-10-06 Thread Don Flowers
Yes it is possible by various methods. Rufus is one. If perchance you have a linux installation then you can download the iso and copy it to a flash drive via the dd method. I have also used the following method: http://www.chtaube.eu/computers/freedos/bootable-usb/ You can download the iso and ex

Re: [Freedos-user] opengem

2015-08-22 Thread Don Flowers
Perhaps a more updated alternative to opengem would be XFDOS I have tried it and found it be quite an impressive interface and its word processor alone is worth giving it a try. http://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/news/2013/04/xfdos-graphical-freedos-distribution/ On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 2:27 AM, Mat

Re: [Freedos-user] Web browsers: Arachne search fails, Dillo works

2015-06-19 Thread Don Flowers
t, like the > one there is for wikipedia? > > Mateusz > > > > On 19/06/2015 12:53, Don Flowers wrote: > > I use Dillo, but I accept and perhaps appreciate its limitations. By > > this I mean that when in FreeDOS, I am in a different "time zone" > > (1

Re: [Freedos-user] Web browsers: Arachne search fails, Dillo works

2015-06-19 Thread Don Flowers
I use Dillo, but I accept and perhaps appreciate its limitations. By this I mean that when in FreeDOS, I am in a different "time zone" (1993?) and there were only so many things that you could do online back then in a DOS browser and whatever you could do was in a text browser so DILLO is definitel

Re: [Freedos-user] Format floppy (format a: /u) bug

2015-06-18 Thread Don Flowers
I will test FreeDOS Format on my W98 machine also and report back. On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 12:04 PM, wrote: > Does it work on the w98 computer with freedos version of format? I am > trying to see if it is format, kernel, or both causing the issue. > > Thank you, > Jeremy > > >

Re: [Freedos-user] Networking: With MS Client, "Error 5: Access has been denied"

2015-06-15 Thread Don Flowers
Forgive me if I didn't catch it, but are you able to ping successfully w/o a full network setup (just connect via packet driver and DHCP) and are you able to use wget or fdnpkg and download a file? On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 2:15 PM, Ralf Quint wrote: > On 6/15/2015 10:38 AM, Dave Kerber wrote: > >

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS printing

2015-06-04 Thread Don Flowers
All but one of my computers have parallel ports (the advantage of buying HP Enterprise machines off-lease) - I'm just trying to find a reasonbly priced Dot Matrix printer :^) On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 11:17 AM, Eric Auer wrote: > > Hi! > > > This question interests me too, as I just bought a new HL

Re: [Freedos-user] Drivers or tips for 3 ISA sound cards?

2015-06-03 Thread Don Flowers
To extend the audio hardware supported by DOSSound, there is also support for Soundblaster cards and their emulations. DOSSound first checks whether a soundblaster card is installed. If this is the case it will use that and not check for AC'97 controllers. It uses I/O address 220h, interrupt 7, and

Re: [Freedos-user] Drivers or tips for 3 ISA sound cards?

2015-06-03 Thread Don Flowers
http://www.georgpotthast.de/dossound/ On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 11:10 AM, Dale E Sterner wrote: > For the Dell sound, its a chip soldered on the main board. > I think it works like these stupid win printers; it waits for > windows to start it up. After all dos is dead isn't it - ha. > I will have

Re: [Freedos-user] Drivers or tips for 3 ISA sound cards?

2015-06-03 Thread Don Flowers
I have a Compaq Armada (Laptop) with a ESS1869 - I tried every SB/ESS driver I could find then by chance I loaded DOSSOUND and it worked. For my modern desktops with the oldest PCI cards (mostly ESS or Yamaha) I can only get sound through the internal speaker, but MPXPLAY & QView work through the l

Re: [Freedos-user] Zip vs Pkzip

2015-06-03 Thread Don Flowers
Thanks Mateusz, I will report this to Info-Zip On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 5:55 AM, Don Flowers wrote: > I am currently running kubuntu 14.04 , 14.10 and Zorin OS 9 (14.04) but > this started as early as 12.04. It is not the mirror per se - I can go back > to what I thought was a bad dow

Re: [Freedos-user] Zip vs Pkzip

2015-06-03 Thread Don Flowers
an example of a file that is > > correctly decompressed by pkunzip, but not by unzip. > > > > http://www.info-zip.org/ > > > > Mateusz > > > > > > > > On 03/06/2015 03:52, Don Flowers wrote: > >> I've recently become aware of some inc

[Freedos-user] Zip vs Pkzip

2015-06-02 Thread Don Flowers
I've recently become aware of some incompatibility between our FreeDOS unzip, Linux unzip and the legacy Pkunzip versions 2.04 and 2.50. I download hundreds of SIMTEL/BBS and other vintage files a month and I know that statistically a percentage of those will be incomplete or have CRC errors. But f

Re: [Freedos-user] Format floppy (format a: /u) quirk or bug?

2015-06-02 Thread Don Flowers
On an unconditional format I always command: Format A: /F:1440 /U - but I still get the error way too often. On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 10:59 AM, Don Flowers wrote: > I have gotten that critical error so often that I have abandoned FreeDOS > format. It happens most often on previously unfor

Re: [Freedos-user] Format floppy (format a: /u) quirk or bug?

2015-06-02 Thread Don Flowers
I have gotten that critical error so often that I have abandoned FreeDOS format. It happens most often on previously unformatted diskettes or on 720kb diskettes. On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 10:55 AM, John Hupp wrote: > In the thread "Drivers or tips for 3 ISA sound cards?" I just reported > solving a

Re: [Freedos-user] Debug bug

2015-05-29 Thread Don Flowers
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Re: [Freedos-user] Debug bug

2015-05-28 Thread Don Flowers
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Re: [Freedos-user] Debug bug

2015-05-27 Thread Don Flowers
I have tried it with both the Freedos shell and 4DOS with the same result. On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 3:12 PM, Don Flowers wrote: > It is a redirect to from a: to c:\temp - MS-DOS Debug deals with as > intended (Many, many SIMTEL debug scripts have similar commands). Japheth > was awa

Re: [Freedos-user] Debug bug

2015-05-27 Thread Don Flowers
itself (without a dot at the end) will probably > say "Echo is ON". I'm not sure that's what you're trying to do. > > Guess #2: ">> reinit.scr/" will probably choke on the trailing slash. > Not sure if that was meant to be a backslash (for subdir)

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-27 Thread Don Flowers
It's all good (but will offer prayers at your request) - I have an uncle who is a lovable curmudgeon and I consider you in the same category. ;^o On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 1:35 PM, Rugxulo wrote: > Hi, Don, > > On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 11:37 AM, Don Flowers wrote: > > > &

Re: [Freedos-user] Debug bug

2015-05-27 Thread Don Flowers
I'm was using version 1.25 and using a batch file to reinit my Lotus 1-2-3 install disk. I booted into DOS 5.0 and am using it now. This is the command that causes error: echo>> reinit.scr/ On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 1:38 PM, Rugxulo wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 1

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-27 Thread Don Flowers
I did not contact Jack because I was discouraged from doing so. Adapter card is not applicable to my laptop, so Intel AHCI.SYS driver remains as the only working solution. On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 10:40 AM, Carl spitzer wrote: > On Mon, 2015-05-18 at 13:11 +0200, Mateusz Viste wrote: > > Okay, I

[Freedos-user] Debug bug

2015-05-27 Thread Don Flowers
What is wrong with debug? - I keep getting cannot redirect error I thought this bug was fixed. -- ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.s

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS diskette cache

2015-05-25 Thread Don Flowers
Mateusz, I went through my archives and found Central Point PC-Tools version 4. It has a floppy cache called PC-Cache which "should" work. On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 9:12 AM, Don Flowers wrote: > With my need for the FCB filename parsing, int 21h function 29h patch I > need t

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS diskette cache

2015-05-25 Thread Don Flowers
disk access DOS driver error (hex) : 08 Description: sector not found Progam terminated. [Error 136] C:\> On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 8:19 AM, Rugxulo wrote: > Hi, > > On May 25, 2015 7:09 AM, "Don Flowers" wrote: > > > > Could this be the cause of so many d

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS diskette cache

2015-05-25 Thread Don Flowers
Could this be the cause of so many diskette formatting failures in FreeDOS? I have to resort to either booting in Compaq DOS 3.31 or using 3rd party formatting tools such as FMT or Nformat. On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 3:26 AM, Mateusz Viste wrote: > Hello group, > > I am playing a bit with a 8086 PC

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-20 Thread Don Flowers
>whatever your reason is: forget it. DONE! I spent all day yesterday setting up XFDOS and even though my time with it was somewhat limited, I found XFDOS much easier to set up thant OpenGEM. It is the best GUI I have seen yet. I want this to be a priority for the primary GUI for FreeDOS. On Wed, M

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-19 Thread Don Flowers
What a killjoy! Tom it was a wish list after all & from my personal experience on FreeDOS 1.0 with the unstable kernel where crashes were few and far between in standard mode, it seems possible if not practical. C'est la vie! FreeDOS is not my life, just something to obsess about, ironically speak

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-19 Thread Don Flowers
if so then I really wouldn't need Windows at all. https://code.google.com/p/nanox-microwindows-nxlib-fltk-for-dos/wiki/XFDOS On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 7:21 AM, Don Flowers wrote: > Just one more "wish list" item, If someone could rework the RPM 2.37 > Advanced Boot Manager to

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-19 Thread Don Flowers
Just one more "wish list" item, If someone could rework the RPM 2.37 Advanced Boot Manager to work with drives above 8gb and then port that into RPM 2.44 that would be awesome. On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 8:45 PM, Rugxulo wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 2:26 PM, Karen Lewellen > wrote: > >

Re: [Freedos-user] For CD: Error reading from drive D: data area: drive not ready

2015-05-18 Thread Don Flowers
rking on the > best setup with the last xcdrom.sys. > > I've been assuming that we are dealing with uide/xcdrom bugs here rather > than a shsucdx bug. > > I have not tried any other cdrom drivers or cdx programs. > > On 5/18/2015 4:14 PM, Don Flowers wrote: > > ar

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-18 Thread Don Flowers
My reason for wanting to use Windows 3.1 in FreeDOS is for some very specific apps (yes among them are a couple of bible programs) and just having access to some utilities such as Winimage Winzip, etc. That said, since 1993 I have always had Compaq DOS/Windows 3.1 on at least one of my PCs so, I c

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-18 Thread Don Flowers
5 at 4:45 AM, Don Flowers wrote: > > > > The wiki article is good as far as it goes, I collected all the pieces of > > the networking puzzle mentioned in the article, but can't seem to > assemble > > them correctly. My currebn method of file transfer is via USB, and

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-18 Thread Don Flowers
sers that > pose no threat. > The very nature of a low graphic environment suggests disinterest on the > part of those who create bugs that do graphical harm. > I am too boring a user for them to care about my machine smiles. > Thanks for the suggestion, > Kare > > > On Mon, 18

Re: [Freedos-user] For CD: Error reading from drive D: data area: drive not ready

2015-05-18 Thread Don Flowers
t; So it's not entirely clean and clear, but have I just arrived at the best > workaround? > > > On 5/18/2015 3:50 PM, Don Flowers wrote: > > John, actually you probably don't need to unload shsucdx, like you I used > that command line from my install (I used the all_

Re: [Freedos-user] For CD: Error reading from drive D: data area: drive not ready

2015-05-18 Thread Don Flowers
ehavior as FDCD0001,D resulting in > access as E:). > > What I don't understand is why I have to unload SHSUCDX and then re-run > the same two commands as above the unload. > > > On 5/18/2015 2:58 PM, Don Flowers wrote: > > If you have other partitions they will alw

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-18 Thread Don Flowers
contains already quite a lot of informations, on many aspects of the > > DOS networking world. > > > > Mateusz > > > > > > > > > > On 18/05/2015 10:52, Don Flowers wrote: > >> I have a HP Elite 8000 with 12gb RAM, I use XOSL to boot Kubuntu 14

Re: [Freedos-user] For CD: Error reading from drive D: data area: drive not ready

2015-05-18 Thread Don Flowers
HSUCDX /QQ /U > DEVLOAD /Q /H C:\FDOS\BIN\XCDROM.SYS /D:FDCD0001 /H > SHSUCDX /D:FDCD0001,D /Q > === > > With this, I can access the cdrom as E: (not D:). > > But I have not been able to merge the last 5 command into just 2 or 3. > Among many attempt

Re: [Freedos-user] For CD: Error reading from drive D: data area: drive not ready

2015-05-18 Thread Don Flowers
Make sure your (fd)config.sys has a line LASTDRIVE=Z On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 11:08 AM, Don Flowers wrote: > I just checked my only PC with a secondary master drive. If neither of the > two configurations work, on the batch file loading UIDE try loading > UDVD2.SYS instead. > >

Re: [Freedos-user] For CD: Error reading from drive D: data area: drive not ready

2015-05-18 Thread Don Flowers
I just checked my only PC with a secondary master drive. If neither of the two configurations work, on the batch file loading UIDE try loading UDVD2.SYS instead. On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 10:53 AM, John Hupp wrote: > Secondary master. > > > On 5/18/2015 10:35 AM, Don Flowers wrote:

Re: [Freedos-user] For CD: Error reading from drive D: data area: drive not ready

2015-05-18 Thread Don Flowers
One of these two should work. These are batch files so rename them accordingly. On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 10:35 AM, Don Flowers wrote: > Is it a slave or secondary master drive? > > On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 10:30 AM, John Hupp > wrote: > >> Thanks for the idea and an inte

Re: [Freedos-user] For CD: Error reading from drive D: data area: drive not ready

2015-05-18 Thread Don Flowers
Is it a slave or secondary master drive? On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 10:30 AM, John Hupp wrote: > Thanks for the idea and an interesting web page, but this is a plain old > IDE CD-ROM. > > > On 5/18/2015 10:10 AM, Don Flowers wrote: > > http://www.rmprepusb.com/tutorials/win

Re: [Freedos-user] For CD: Error reading from drive D: data area: drive not ready

2015-05-18 Thread Don Flowers
http://www.rmprepusb.com/tutorials/winimage On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 10:08 AM, Don Flowers wrote: > If you have a AHCI/SATA CD/DVD drive, try downloading the FreeDOS - SATA > for Ghost disk here, extract the AHCI.SYS driver and use the following > configuration. > @ECHO OFF > SHC

Re: [Freedos-user] For CD: Error reading from drive D: data area: drive not ready

2015-05-18 Thread Don Flowers
If you have a AHCI/SATA CD/DVD drive, try downloading the FreeDOS - SATA for Ghost disk here, extract the AHCI.SYS driver and use the following configuration. @ECHO OFF SHCDX86.COM /QQ /U IF NOT EXIST CDROM001 DEVLOAD /Q /H C:\FDOS\BIN\AHCI.SYS /D:CDROM001 /H IF NOT EXIST CDROM001 DEVLOAD /Q /H C:\

Re: [Freedos-user] AHCI DOS Driver

2015-05-18 Thread Don Flowers
I previously downloaded direct from the Intel site, but the link is now broken. This link is for various FreeDOS boot disk images and the AHCI.SYS driver is located on one. http://www.rmprepusb.com/tutorials/winimage -- One

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-18 Thread Don Flowers
AHCI On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 9:31 AM, Don Flowers wrote: > Re: DOS AHCI driver - My driver is AHCI.SYS. I load it then UIDE followed > by SHCDX86.COM. This is the only configuration that works. BIOS has no > option besides ACHCI, > > > On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 7:43 AM

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-18 Thread Don Flowers
Re: DOS AHCI driver - My driver is AHCI.SYS. I load it then UIDE followed by SHCDX86.COM. This is the only configuration that works. BIOS has no option besides ACHCI, On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 7:43 AM, Eric Auer wrote: > > Hi Mateusz, > > as far as I know, UIDE now supports harddisk and CDROM/DV

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-18 Thread Don Flowers
his AHCI/SATA issue - do you have > any reference? An URL to a past mailing list message, or a bug report on > sourceforge? > > Will add it to the wishlist, I just need some reference to attach it to, > since it doesn't sound self-explanatory as you worded it. > > Mateusz &

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-18 Thread Don Flowers
For the wish list has the AHCI/SATA issue been mentioned? I have an Acer which will not access CDROM using GCDROM or any thing else in the FreeDOS repo, but works only with the intel SATA driver first followed by UIDE. On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 5:45 AM, Don Flowers wrote: > The wiki article

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-18 Thread Don Flowers
> > http://www.freedos.org/wiki/index.php/Networking_FreeDOS > > It contains already quite a lot of informations, on many aspects of the > DOS networking world. > > Mateusz > > > > > On 18/05/2015 10:52, Don Flowers wrote: > > I have a HP Elite 80

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-18 Thread Don Flowers
I have a HP Elite 8000 with 12gb RAM, I use XOSL to boot Kubuntu 14.04, Windows 7, Compaq DOS 5.0, MS-DOS 7.10 and FreeDOS. When running Compaq DOS and/or MS-DOS 7.10, I use the native HIMEM and Windows 3.1 runs fine in enhanced mode; on FreeDOS even standard mode seems buggy, so it is not necessar

Re: [Freedos-user] Any open-source DOS picture viewers out there?

2015-05-18 Thread Don Flowers
I just downloaded two versions of Sea from Vetusware - the Version 12c is a shareware "press space to continue" and Version 13 is a patched version with no nag-screen, no viruses were detected from either. On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 3:45 AM, Don Flowers wrote: > I just found Sea Dos

Re: [Freedos-user] Any open-source DOS picture viewers out there?

2015-05-18 Thread Don Flowers
I just found Sea Dos at Vetusware http://vetusware.com/download/Sea%20Graphics%20Viewer%201.3/?id=4806 http://vetusware.com/category/Multimedia/?cat=8&page=11 I'll give it a try. On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 1:25 AM, Mateusz Viste wrote: > Hi Dale, > > I use the SEA DOS Viewer since years, I have on

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-17 Thread Don Flowers
+1 for Windows 3.1 enhanced mode! On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 12:38 PM, Micheal Muniko wrote: > Ability to run Windows 3.1 in 386 enhanced mode. > > > -- > One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

2015-05-17 Thread Don Flowers
I would hope that the FCBParseFname bug fix will be implemented in the next kernel. On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 12:50 AM, Dario Roncone wrote: > www.dario-roncone.com > I must disable the picture.. > > 2015-05-17 6:45 GMT+02:00, Dario Roncone : > > There is a Extended CommandShellExtension For DOS,

Re: [Freedos-user] Any open-source DOS picture viewers out there?

2015-05-14 Thread Don Flowers
I use GAZE, it supports the most popular formats. http://koti.mbnet.fi/lonnberg/JPEGView.html I thought it was open source because it is a DGJPP program, but I cannot find the source code. The author has discontinued support. Perhaps he would make the code available to the FreeDOS Project? On Thu,

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS in a browser

2015-04-02 Thread Don Flowers
WAY COOL! On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 11:44 AM, dmccunney wrote: > http://copy.sh/v86/?profile=freedos > __ > Dennis > https://plus.google.com/u/0/105128793974319004519 > > > -- > Dive into the World of Parallel Programmi

Re: [Freedos-user] dos usb driver!

2015-04-02 Thread Don Flowers
It is not a virus - it is a utility to kill uncooperative TSRs or EXE files that would otherwise require a reboot (much like to linux kill command. I have used it and it works (sometimes) but I have never known it to affect other systems (of course, I don't use windows)! On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 11:

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS compatibility issue according to Asus

2015-04-01 Thread Don Flowers
>I don't think any motherboard has any DOS, Windows or other OS, though IBM computers back in the 1980s came with ROM BASIC. >I have motherboard from MSI; now I am scared away from Asus, though perhaps the newer, UEFI-equipped motherboards would be >OK. >But there is also ASRock. I have no actual

Re: [Freedos-user] dos usb driver!

2015-03-31 Thread Don Flowers
Hi Karen - Since I am the one who gave a "testimonial" regarding my success with the USB drivers, I feel the need to chime in. > i use dos exclusively daily for all my computing. > and still sometimes get the sense here that freedos does not take itself > seriously enough for me to consider it for

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2015-03-17 Thread Don Flowers
>What do you run as your "production" OS? I'm willing to bet it's not a flavor of DOS. Linux (Kubuntu [Ubuntu/Debian derivatives) is my primary OS, but FreeDOS is my secondary OS followed by Windows 7 on one machine only because I recently acquired an HP Elite 8000 for under $100 with W7 preinsta

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Edit maximum file size

2015-03-16 Thread Don Flowers
It would seem that is the logical solution. I thank you all for the advice. I have compared a few editors and have decided to start with Setedit. I am updating a bible translation (The Concordant Literal Translation) which I originally compiled for my BibleWorks program using UltraEdit in Linux.

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2015-03-16 Thread Don Flowers
I thank you all for the advice. I have compared a few editors and have decided to start with Setedit. I am updating a bible translation (The Concordant Literal Translation) which I originally compiled for my BibleWorks program using UltraEdit in Linux. The Old Testament text recently received a l

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Edit maximum file size

2015-03-15 Thread Don Flowers
h is almost as good). I don't know what the plan is going forward. I suppose that FreeDOS is "good enough" as it is, but it would be way cool if it could be better - better than the illegal but much downloaded MS-DOS 7.10. On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 7:20 AM, Mateusz Viste w

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Edit maximum file size

2015-03-13 Thread Don Flowers
I had actually forgotten about setedit (and have probably forgotten how to use it as well). Is there a reason the "edit" category is not included in the fdnpkg install program or the "all_cd" iso? I don't mind relearning it. I downloaded it, but it won't start and I apparently didn't get all of th

Re: [Freedos-user] Installation Error

2015-03-05 Thread Don Flowers
If you want to experiment, you may have to customize a floppy specific to your PC; then re-burn a CD with your floppy image. I had to do this with an HP Elite 8000. I eliminated the eltorito.sys driver and loaded UIDE and it worked fine after that. (also had to do a similar workaround with a Compaq

Re: [Freedos-user] how can I do a software release?

2015-03-04 Thread Don Flowers
"I have and still use daily a certain dos signal generator program (under FREEDOS of course)." Is this program the kind that might be used for cassette deck (and other audio) calibration? If so, I could sure make use of such a program, but in any case I hope that someone in the FreeDOS community i

Re: [Freedos-user] Rom-dos

2015-02-15 Thread Don Flowers
I once had a Compaq Portable 8088 and installed a m-systems diskonchip and installed Compaq DOS 3.31 (I didn't know about FreeDOS back then). these has setup discs instead of an on-board setup, so I installed the setup partition in the DOC. On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 4:43 PM, Darrin Hodges wrote:

Re: [Freedos-user] dos USB driver.

2015-02-14 Thread Don Flowers
What happened with the USBDRIVE set that was on the first FreeDOS 1.1 CD? These worked fairly well for me, but I did experience more hanging that with the ASPI driver. Personally, I hate using ASPI drivers, but for one drive at a time, these are perfect. On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 8:17 PM, dmccunney

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