Hi Knedlik!
If I assume that UTM is some sort of virtual environment
and assume that either way, you primarily need CD/DVD access
during install, which means after booting from the install
CD/DVD itself, then I would recommend that you try using the
ELTORITO driver instead. This uses generic
Hi! If you use the FreeCOM version of command.com which
ships with FreeDOS, you could be able to use some magic
extensions such as that option for SET which stores the
output of a command in an environment variable, or some
magic pre-defined environment variables, or DATE and TIME
extensions,
Hi! Please describe that "normalizing" process which makes
the source codes inside the distro packages behave like a
solid archive. If you remove them from the ZIP and add a
TAR of the sources to the ZIP instead, you would get that
type of result, but it would mean that the install process
will
Hi! I think for BIOS flashing, a good way would be to start
with a minimal boot floppy image, you can find that online
for FreeDOS. Or use one with more apps on it and remove
some of them to make space. Then, you mount or open the
image with a free tool (depends on the OS, in Linux you
can use
Hi Jerome and Darik,
1. Unzip each FDN package.
2. Further unpack each ZIP and 7Z source file.
3. Zip+Store each SOURCES/* tree like it has LFN.
4. Rezip each FDN package like usual.
5. Optimize each package with AdvanceCOMP.
I suggest a much shorter algorithm: Simply apply
advzip
Hi Liam,
very good point! Here is some background info on the tools :-)
FDAPM is the FreeDOS answer to MS DOS "POWER EXE", so it can
be a resident tool to help you to save energy and keep your
CPU cool by reducing activity while DOS is idle. It also has
features such as power off, reboot,
Hi! To add a bit of clarification:
https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/ellis/uhdd/2021-10-30/uhdd_2021-10-30.zip
The updated UHDD is only 5 kB, the current UDVD2 is less
than 4 kB. So the size difference compared to using only
UIDE is very small now, with UIDE being
Hi Diego,
I think Jim is just trying to encourage FDBOX to add features :-)
Tom is right that FDBOX as it is now is not yet really useful.
Why does it matter whether FreeCOM or FDBOX run on Windows,
Linux or Apple? You can run DOS on all of them, using either
a DOS emulator or a virtual PC
Hi! Forwarding from the BTTR forum - note that some source code
still contains the following header, which could be problematic:
"Please contact with the author (with me) if you want to use
or modify this source."
Also note that in the announcement quoted below, I have removed
changes which
Hi everybody,
while we got a lot of feedback about the malfunction of
the monthly reminder mail, there has been almost none about
the FDAPM and UHDD updates recently. So please check out
those new driver versions and share your experiences :-)
"Jack Ellis has released an updated UHDD driver.
Hi all,
Jim noticed that ECM has extended FDAPM, which I was not aware of,
so I suggest that you folks test this and provide feedback :-) The
top item on my own FDAPM wishlist would have been to make it work
with data structures > 64 kB, as far as I am concerned simply by
working in
Hi! While this has nothing to do with MKEYB,
Tom is absolutely right about command.com:
The more common version of FreeCOM uses XMS
to swap, which is faster and available on
almost every computer of 2021 FreeDOS fans.
But there also is the alternate KSSF style
swapping without XMS, which
Hi Bret,
When you don't like the message, you shoot the messenger? What we're
talking about here is a much larger issue than the Euro symbol -- the
Euro symbol is just a specific example we can use to discuss the
larger issue.
I disagree. It is not unusual that text displays with weird
Hi!
now they will generate 213 with AltGr+E, whatever the codepage. with
a proper codepage, this will look like €.
Again, you're misunderstanding the problem. You shouldn't just
automatically generate an ASCII 213 no matter what the Code Page is --
you should only generate an ASCII 213 when
Hi Felix,
The "usual distro" of the day would be Ubuntu, with
MINT being a spin-off and with lightweight variants
such as Xubuntu or Lubuntu which default to install
less heavy graphical things than the normal Ubuntu.
MATE also is just yet another variant.
https://distrowatch.com/ has a
Hi everybody,
I don't need the actual floppies - but I'd love to have a photo of
them.
Interesting thought :-) Might take a moment, but good idea. I also like
the hard blue plastic boxes in which Inmac sold the floppies.
In the meantime, my offer has grown by 20 small 3.5 inch diskettes,
Hi everybody,
as mentioned, I plan to get rid of the old MS DOS 4.01 handbooks,
but before, I have copied the pages about drivparm and driver sys.
Apparently, the config sys command and device driver simply serve
to override (or provide) the drive type and geometry data which
you would
Hi users :-)
While sorting through some old stuff, I have collected:
Circa 30 classic 5.25 inch 360k floppy disks, half of
which were not yet formatted, but are formatted now
Circa 9 classic 5.25 inch 1200k floppy disks, also
empty and formatted
And I have found that I have no mainboard
Iyi günler Hitsumo, Jim and others,
note that I write "hardware" and not hardware: Virtualbox
simulates a NEW computer, but dosemu2 and dosbox simulates
an old computer. So I mean simulated, not real, hardware.
This is availble more easily :-)
I BELIEVE that Brix worked for me on FreeDOS long
Hi Jim and AM,
1. FreeDOS cannot read NTFS.
However, there are non-open-source tools for DOS in general which
let you access files on older NTFS filesystems, for example Avira
NTFS4DOS from 2007, may access Windows 2003 or older filesystems.
FreeDOS can read variations of the FAT
Hi!
Problem is, fdconfig.sys and autoexec.bat seem really complicated...
For questions about the boot config menu system, check the HTMLHELP:
http://help.fdos.org/en/index.htm
http://help.fdos.org/en/hhstndrd/cnfigsys/menu.htm
You can also read this using the same name tool at the DOS
Hi again,
I used CloneDisk to rip a RAW image of the booting DOM with FreeDOS.
Mounted that with Qemu. Booted Qemu with the FreeDOS install image and
installed FreeDOS to the image copied from the DOM. Then I used
CloneDisk to write that image back to the DOM. "Missing Operating
System".
Possible explanation: The FreeDOS USB boot thing has a harddisk-
style bootable disk image and the BIOS of your computer has some
compatibility issue with the drive-renumbering caused by booting
from USB and/or from using a "harddisk" boot image. A possible
solution would be to use a FreeDOS
Some thoughts...
The storage is an IDE Flash Disk, AKA Disk On Module. It has a 44 pin
female header connector, same electrical interface as a 2.5" IDE hard
drive. They're available dirt cheap in sizes from 64 megabytes to 2
gigabytes, not so cheap in 4 and 8 gigabytes...
You can also use a
Hi Greg,
I don't need anything complicated for DOS, just configuring the 128
meg RAM for as much EMS as possible because the old software I want to
run uses EMS not XMS, and USB support for reading files from flash
drives. Getting the Realtek AC97 sound and Realtek LAN working would
be nice,
From: "E. Auer" <e.a...@jpberlin.de>
Hi everybody,
just a quick mail to wish you a happy new year and
forward some news from Jack - for those who have a
really old PC. Jack made a 2016-12-15 driver update:
One-Time ONLY update of the 5-Mar-2015 drivers provided
from Sou
Hi everybody,
just a quick mail to wish you a happy new year and
forward some news from Jack - for those who have a
really old PC. Jack made a 2016-12-15 driver update:
One-Time ONLY update of the 5-Mar-2015 drivers provided
from SourceForge IBiblio. Changes are:
* XMGR/UHDD now do real-mode
Hi dos386,
... or all the other date formattings
No point of existence ;-)
I hope zou do not think that about other countries as well...
German dd.mm. hh:mm 1.000,00 for COUNTRY
than BIOS default US QWERTY) are totally different
I prefer to keep things simple (QWERTY, @ and \
Hi Bernd, Dos386,
I'd like to see -MM-DD (with dashes) and without COUNTRY.
... or Japanese MMDD as Bernd mentioned ...
makes sorting files by date so much easier.
:-)
...or all the other date formattings: You can just set your country
depending on your taste. As long as you do
Hi JPT,
- freedos 1.1 successfully installed.
Nice :-)
Was 3x128 + 1x256 = 640, but recognized only 384 MB. This might...
Indeed odd.
- CPU clock rate too high for a lot of old dos software?
Do you think clocking down to below 500 Mhz might help?
If your hardware supports ACPI, starting
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