Hi Felix,
>> dual-boot system, and Win98 *has* to be on the first partition.
>That was never the case for me. e.g.
I agree that most operating systems happily boot from ANY primary
partition (not necessarily the active one), I seem to remember that
DOS and Windows are less happy to boot from
Hey Raul!
> Can anybody tell me how to change the default color of my
> FREEDOS screen from BLACK background with WHITE text TO
> BLUE BACKGROUND WITH white TEXT? THANKS IN ADVANCE!
The standard method of this is to load the ANSI driver
(for example NANSI) and send appropriate ESCape sequences
t
Hi Kyle :-)
First, Win98 and DOS ignore NTFS drives. Second, FDISK
should easily allow up to 4 primary partitions, but in
most cases at most 3, because you need 1 extended to
put all the additional drives as a chain there.
However, only one partition can be the one which boots
by default. So you
To add yet another personal view to this thread:
> [...] Win10 and Linux. I have an assortment of old DOS apps that I
> run using DOSBox, which was designed to let folks run old DOS games
> on machines that aren't PCs.
But also PCs that just do not run DOS as main OS.
> [...] 23" 1920x1080 mon
Hi! As said, I can imagine that the BIOS of your
system has problems if the USB stick and DOM both
count as harddisks. But you already have bootable
DOS installed from floppy now, so I suggest ways
which are easier:
You can connect the DOM instead of the normal disk
to a "bigger" PC with CD-ROM a
Hi! Harvard Architecture with separate program and data
memory does NOT mean that you suddenly can get 640k x86
DOS performance out of a simple controller with 8k RAM.
Sorry guys, this is total wishful thinking. But because
you again mention the serial port UART: Maybe you want
to write a port of
Hi Ercan, Bill, others,
The main question probably is WHY: If you port the kernel
to another platform (I think we even once had a 68000 one)
you would also have to port any app that you want to use,
starting with command.com - For both together, you already
need a few 100 kB of RAM which is not a
Hi Jim,
>>> I was thinking that it could become necessary to start implementing
>>> a FreeDOS version that included natively its own BIOS...
>> In my opinion: 1. is a very good idea. Something which boots
>> via UEFI and supports GPT and loads Coreboot / Seabios / other...
The difference to run
Hi Curtis,
if external commands are not found, then you
probably have to set PATH to point to those
directories where your external command exe
and com files are installed. As temporary
workaround, you can simply go to that drive
and directory - the current directory always
is implicit part of th
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
via
Hi :-)
Forwarding a post from Rugxulo on BTTR about NASM, plus,
in unrelated news: If CHKDSK reports a pile of CHK files
(you would have to check all contents and rename them to
their old name) then one or more directory listings might
be lost. On FAT32, even the root dir can be affected. It
migh
Hi Gregg,
> What do these "Jack's Drivers" actually do?
RDISK: Ramdisk
UDVD2: CD / DVD low-level drivers, UDMA, cache via UHDD
UHDD: fast UDMA disk I/O, cache (harddisk/SSD/CD/DVD)
XMGR: XMS / HMA memory driver
All drivers are optimized for low consumption of
DOS memory, while they can use l
Hi Rugxulo,
you are not going to make Jack any more kind by publicly
sharing all private email details of your private fight...
Jack does update drivers because he is a perfectionist,
but he is also known for not liking the FreeDOS community
(including in particular you) so it is no surprise that
Hi Jerome,
> Maybe the installer should just assume FULL install + sources
Not really. Almost nobody installs all sources at the same time
and I would not even want the option in the installer: Instead,
I prefer to have the option to install + PACKAGES with sources.
Then I can unzip only those s
Hi Jerome,
>> Start with Base.
> Can’t. If user is doing a custom install
Yes you can ;-) Base install will be a common choice,
so it is good if you can at least predict how much
disk space is required for THAT. I think this also
is exactly why Robert wrote START with base: You can
always try t
Hi Robert :-)
>> Base size,
>> Base + sources size,
>> Full size,
>> Full + sources size,
>> All package sizes (custom advanced mode)
>> All packages + sources sizes,
> Start with Base.
Actually I would suggest to never install complete categories
WITH SOURCE. Just install sources of individual
Hi Rugxulo,
if umbpci and xmgr run more stable than jemm386, in particular
regarding umb range autodetection, then it is no surprise that
Dimitris is happy about those :-) And you remember how long
ago Japheth stopped maintenance and support for jemm386 and
how hard it is to improve memory drivers
Hi Rugxulo,
>> Quick news from /dev/null 's drivers: [etc. rant etc.]
In short, you said "nag nag nag" ;-)
The features might still be interesting to test. Nobody
suggested to include any closed source in any distro.
Eric
--
Hi :-) Quick news from Jack's drivers: He has a closed
source update for XMGR (more fail-safe 386 XMS move)
and UHDD: The new UHDD has the interesting feature of
read-ahead for cache sizes of at least 20 MB. It is
a simplified version without I/O overlap and DOS RAM
search table location and "/G"
Hi Jim, Europeans,
> Is anyone here planning to attend FOSDEM in February? Unfortunately,
> I won't be able to make it.
>
> This year, they have added a special track about retro computing.
> What a perfect venue for FreeDOS!
>
> https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2017-October/002623.htm
Hi, just saw this on dosemu2, but you probably
have already seen it on slashdot anyway... ;-)
> https://news.slashdot.org/story/17/10/22/1938209/30-year-old-operating-system-pc-mos386-finally-open-sourced
https://github.com/roelandjansen/pcmos386v501 (GPL v3)
Cheers, Eric
---
Hi Paolo,
(sorry everybody about the long answer... The short
answer is "would be nice to have a Wiki page about
situations where WfW 3.11 can be made to run, but I
still think that this has mostly novelty value only)
> I guess people who commonly use Windows,
> and don't feel comfortable with U
Hi Jose,
very interesting detail in your SourceForge ticket reply!
> There is also a captcha that is required due to e-mail
> providers such as gmail automatically visiting links
> embeded in e-mail.
A while ago, a similar issue was noticed by German Heise
c't magazine when Skype was found to
Hi people,
for those who are not on the dosemu mailing list:
https://github.com/stsp/dosemu2
is quite active on github now, while the mailing
list is very silent. So if you want to stay up to
date, you can make a github account and "watch"
the project there to follow all discussions and
tickets
Hi people,
> A simple question, if I may: does FreeDOS 1.2 have a codename?
> I really like things having names, so right now I am using MINNESOTA
That would not be 8.3 compatible
I see that the Beta versions were Orlando, Marvin, Ventura,
Lemur, Lara, Midnite, Spears and Nikita, while the las
Hi guys,
apparently somebody is re-sending old freedos-user emails from
[original name of person] , using content
between mid-2016 and today. Until early 2017, you will also see
ALL CAPS original names, but they have now fixed that. Almost
of those 500 mails came out in a burst that only took hal
From: Eric Auer
Hi Ercan,
> After this, I won't use USBASPI on FreeDOS.
>
> How can I use a USB mass storage that is formatted
> FAT16 or FAT32 on FreeDOS with USBDOS?
as Thomas wrote: If you boot from USB drive or if the
USB drive is already plugged in at boot time, th
From: Eric Auer
Hi Dale,
is this actually a version of DOS? Or just an
unreleased intermediate version of wordperfect?
And of course, what is included? Which license?
Cheers, Eric
ps: you forgot to update the subject in your
freedos-user mail, it still says "wifi o
From: Eric Auer
Hi Mateusz,
> BSUM (by Mateusz Viste) : 6.0s (100%)
> CRC32 (by Joe Forster) : 8.5s (70%)
> MD5 (by Colin Plumb): 52.9s (11%)
> SHA1 (by Colin Plumb) : 85.7s (7%)
Entertaining :-) Still you need to find a good balance
between speed and collis
From: Eric Auer
Hi Rugxulo,
> If you already have the original gold standard of DOSes, i.e. MS-DOS
> (which was widely tested and hugely popular, by far the most
> ubiquitous DOS), then you don't urgently "need" any other DOS
> clone at all all, period.
Being th
From: Eric Auer
A backup on the same disk but different partitions
does not really help you if things go really wrong,
but as you say, data loss would be no real problem
for you... You should probably backup at least the
DOS SCSI drivers though ;-) Jerome also mentioned
the drivers as being the
From: Eric Auer
Hi Dennis,
> The 486 that I plan to use FreeDOS on currentlyrCA has MS-DOS 6.22 as
> its only OS. My plan is to completely replace it but keep all my
> installed programs. The SCSI drivers are all in C:\SCSI and I notice
> FreeDOS has its own equivalent of MSCDEX.E
From: Eric Auer
Hi Felix and Dennis,
> I just looked inside http://www.freedos.org/download/download/FD12FLOPPY.zip
> "boot floppy", and a 3.5" 1.44M floppy. My floppy has 1457664 total bytes,
2847
> 512 byte sectors. The image downloaded is 1474560 bytes, so the down
From: Eric Auer
Hi Geneb, about your Borland Pascal 7 Problem in FreeDOS 1.2:
> When I run "bp" which is the protected mode compiler, I get this:
>
> Unhandled exception 000E at 0020 A19E ErrCode 0002.
Looking at older FreeDOS-user discussions, people suggested
using HDP
From: Eric Auer
Hi, forwarding a question from SF user banana29j. I myself
do not have Windows for Workgroups, so my 2006 comment was
about something said on the list back then. Maybe somebody
who does have that version of Windows can comment about the
status with 2017ish FreeDOS kernels? Of
From: Eric Auer
Hi Eduardo,
> 2017-02-03 Ralf Quint:
>> Well, that works only with VMware, but unfortunately not with
>> VirtualBox, AFAIK.
> Right.
As with drivers for other things, it would still be good to
include vmsmount for those who use vmware to run FreeDOS :-)
From: Eric Auer
Hi Troi,
> C:\ELVIS\DOC>find /i "env" e*.htm
> file list ...
> Error reading from drive A: DOS area: general failure
You mean it FIRST checks all files in the current
directory on C: but THEN tries to jump to the A:
drive? That sounds like a bug in
From: Eric Auer
Hi Rugxulo and Troi,
>> It could be a rare kernel bug, but my guess is some buffer overflow in the
>> IO95 lib. I think this problem is hidden by enabling DOSLFN.
>
> Yes indeed that did either mask or "fix" the problem. Thanks.
In that case please
From: Eric Auer
> I keep getting the error dma crosses 64k boundary when using tools like
> rawrite3 or hard drive manufacturers tools floppy creation software. I need
> to boot from Windows 98 bootdisk to get rid of it.
Maybe your BIOS or MBR-based dynamic drive overlay / EZ-driv
From: Eric Auer
Hi Kai,
> I've been trying for the last two hours or so to find out how to use a
> German keyboard with FreeDOS. There is enough information, but some...
The easiest driver is probably MKEYB:
http://www.freedos.org/software/?prog=mkeyb
It does not need extra fi
From: Eric Auer
Hi Userbeitrag,
> The only solution for /modern DOS/ would be to write an emulation for a
> well supported sound card for older programs and games. That would be,
> say, a SB16 emulation driver for AC97 and HD-Audio on-board sound cards.
> So every DOS program/ga
From: Eric Auer
Hi Rugxulo,
> Regarding PCMCIA hard disks, I think Deskwork.de (defunct?) had once
> made public some partial DOS support (TP "unit") that was
> semi-archived by one FreeDOS enthusiast:
>
> http://ericauer.cosmodata.virtuaserver.com.br/soft/by-others/
From: Eric Auer
Hi Mateusz,
> For those of you who followed my Svarog386 project: you might find it
> interesting that the current version of Svarog386 comes with a multi-
> lingual installer...
Thanks :-) In other 386-related news: XMGR, UIDE and UHDD recently
received updates for t
From: Eric Auer
Hi Dallas in Canada ;-)
> FreeDOS. I have a 40 GB Maxtor 6N040T0, a Pentium 4 2.8 GHZ
> processor, 1 GB of DDR RAM 400mhz, a generic integrated Intel AC'97
> Audio Controller, and an Intel 82865G Graphics Controller.
>
> So here is my question. Is it pos
From: Eric Auer
Hi Salih,
thanks for sharing the 1.44 MB boot floppy image. It is correct that
you cannot send files to the list, but the config & autoexec easily
fits into a mail for the list by cut and paste:
> !DEVICE=A:\DRIVER\HIMEM.EXE
Supports options to manually select thi
From: Eric Auer
Hi Salih,
> Keyboard layout is working well in virtualbox pc.
> But is not working in real machine as specs are given.
Oh okay misunderstanding on my side...
> We are using linux.cfg boot up from PXE to catch up mac adress with
tftpserver.
If you boot from PXE,
From: Eric Auer
Hi Ercan, looking at
http://help.fdos.org/en/hhstndrd/base/kpdos.htm and
http://help.fdos.org/en/hhstndrd/base/keyb.htm
you probably just used the wrong syntax. You want to use:
KEYB TR,,KEYBRD2.SYS /ID:440
So the country is only "TR" while the ID of the layout
v
From: Eric Auer
Hi, forwarding from the BTTR forum post by Laaca today :-)
Blocek 1.5b released [...] minor version with new features.
Download from here: http://www.laaca.sweb.cz
Czech users can use this site: http://www.laaca.borec.cz
Blocek 1.5b:
+ now can display the Exif info in
From: Eric Auer
Hi Ercan,
> Hi. We have problem to using Turkish F keyboard on FreeDOS.
> MODE gives uncompressing and loading CPX file error.
> KEYB gives tr440 layout doesn't contain on KEYB2.SYS.
The MODE error is because you try to LH MODE: Do not use LH
for this, MODE needs
From: Eric Auer
Hi Salih,
have you checked whether there could be a problem with the
settings of your host operating system and/or virtualbox?
Unfortunately Turkish is not among the layouts built into
the smaller MKEYB driver, otherwise you could try if that
works better than KEYB. Please
From: Eric Auer
Hi Ercan,
if I understand you correctly, then the problem is not
with the harddisk but with CD / DVD / BluRay? Then you
may want to use the more specific UDVD2 driver instead.
Note that for live CD, you can also often use the tiny
ELTORITO driver because after booting from CD
From: Eric Auer
Hi Bret,
> You may need to use the Microsoft KEYB program (from MS-DOS) rather than the
> FREEDOS KEYB program. While the FreeDOS KEYB program works pretty well most
> of the time, it is NOT a true equivalent to the MS KEYB program. It sounds
> like a BIOS c
From: Eric Auer
Hi, forwarding from the BTTR forum:
http://www.bttr-software.de/forum/forum_entry.php?id=14929
"If you are looking for a fine free DOS schematic drawing progam, Protel
Autotrax for DOS is free. You can find more info on an unofficial fan
page (tips & tricks, scanned m
From: Eric Auer
Hi Dimitris,
> Based on Eric's comments and with Jack's help, I was able to get rawrite3
> to work under freedos by a) loading lowdma.sys in fdconfig.sys early
> during boot b) LH rawrite3.
You probably mean the LOWDMA sys and com which come with UMBPCI. In
From: Eric Auer
Hi Salih!
Do you boot virtualbox with PXE and MEMDISK? Or do you configure
virtualbox to use the img file as "normal floppy drive A: content"?
As mentioned earlier using, PXE and MEMDISK can have side effects,
for example less RAM free for HIMEM and EMM386. Also, try
Hi Ercan,
> After this, I won't use USBASPI on FreeDOS.
>
> How can I use a USB mass storage that is formatted
> FAT16 or FAT32 on FreeDOS with USBDOS?
...as Thomas wrote: If you boot from USB drive or if the
USB drive is already plugged in at boot time, the BIOS
will often support it directly
Hi Dale,
is this actually a version of DOS? Or just an
unreleased intermediate version of wordperfect?
And of course, what is included? Which license?
Cheers, Eric
ps: you forgot to update the subject in your
freedos-user mail, it still says "wifi on dos"
Hi Mateusz,
> BSUM (by Mateusz Viste) : 6.0s (100%)
> CRC32 (by Joe Forster) : 8.5s (70%)
...
> MD5 (by Colin Plumb): 52.9s (11%)
> SHA1 (by Colin Plumb) : 85.7s (7%)
Entertaining :-) Still you need to find a good balance
between speed and collision risk. If you want to find
dupli
Hi Rugxulo,
> If you already have the original gold standard of DOSes, i.e. MS-DOS
> (which was widely tested and hugely popular, by far the most
> ubiquitous DOS), then you don't urgently "need" any other DOS
> clone at all all, period.
Being the most widely used does not equal being the best.
A backup on the same disk but different partitions
does not really help you if things go really wrong,
but as you say, data loss would be no real problem
for you... You should probably backup at least the
DOS SCSI drivers though ;-) Jerome also mentioned
the drivers as being the most backup worthy
Hi Dennis,
> The 486 that I plan to use FreeDOS on currently has MS-DOS 6.22 as
> its only OS. My plan is to completely replace it but keep all my
> installed programs. The SCSI drivers are all in C:\SCSI and I notice
> FreeDOS has its own equivalent of MSCDEX.EXE.
Well in that case, you can si
Hi Dennis,
> I downloaded and installed WinImage 9.0 on my win98 computer. It has a
> floppy drive. I successfully wrote the img file to a floppy.
> Another issue occurred to me. My cd-rom drive is a SCSI external type.
That might be a problem, depending on your SCSI controller
and whether it ha
Hi Felix and Dennis,
> I just looked inside http://www.freedos.org/download/download/FD12FLOPPY.zip
> "boot floppy", and a 3.5" 1.44M floppy. My floppy has 1457664 total bytes,
> 2847
> 512 byte sectors. The image downloaded is 1474560 bytes, so the downloaded
> image
> would not fit here ei
Hi, forwarding a question from SF user banana29j. I myself
do not have Windows for Workgroups, so my 2006 comment was
about something said on the list back then. Maybe somebody
who does have that version of Windows can comment about the
status with 2017ish FreeDOS kernels? Of course other driver
i
Hi Geneb, about your Borland Pascal 7 Problem in FreeDOS 1.2:
> When I run "bp" which is the protected mode compiler, I get this:
>
> Unhandled exception 000E at 0020 A19E ErrCode 0002.
Looking at older FreeDOS-user discussions, people suggested
using HDPMI16 or DOS32A, for example in resident
Hi Eduardo,
> 2017-02-03 Ralf Quint:
>> Well, that works only with VMware, but unfortunately not with
>> VirtualBox, AFAIK.
> Right.
As with drivers for other things, it would still be good to
include vmsmount for those who use vmware to run FreeDOS :-)
>> Otherwise, that would be my preferre
Hi everybody,
I agree with Ralf - it is not intuitive that a non-network
operating system installs a network, even if it is only for
FTP file exchange. I think those who do want to use network
tools to communicate between host OS and a virtual PC with
FreeDOS inside will be able to deliberately s
Hi Ralf and Ira,
> The problem is just to load everything and the kitchen sink by default,
> regardless if needed or not. FDAPM is not necessary to run FreeDOS
The kernel has a built-in IDLEHALT option which you can activate
in config sys and which already implements the core idea: To stop
the
> The version of FDAPM is dated 11 Sep 2009 and does not have an ADV option.
Yes it does. Even the 2005 version has it, but it is not
shown in the /? help screen. Only the longer explanations
included as separate text document mention ADV options ;-)
Eric
Hi Ira,
if FDAPM APMDOS slows down your FreeDOS (on which hardware?
or in which environment, if not on bare physical hardware?)
then you can try FDAPM ADV:REG instead, as APMDOS defaults
to ADV:MAX which might be "overdoing" the energy savings in
certain situations.
Note that the SPEED settings
Rugxulo, Tom,
DOS files should always use DOS linebreaks,
even if some DOS apps can deal with Unix ones.
Even in Windows, if it is wrong with Notepad,
it does not help that Wordpad can deal with it.
In short, I recommend a recode to DOS linebreaks
and DOS codepage for the LSM files, easy enough
Originally to: ALL
Hi Troi,
> C:\ELVIS\DOC>find /i "env" e*.htm
> file list ...
> Error reading from drive A: DOS area: general failure
You mean it FIRST checks all files in the current
directory on C: but THEN tries to jump to the A:
drive? That sounds like a bug in the kernel, either
in
Originally to: ALL
Hi Rugxulo and Troi,
>> It could be a rare kernel bug, but my guess is some buffer overflow in the
>> IO95 lib. I think this problem is hidden by enabling DOSLFN.
>
> Yes indeed that did either mask or "fix" the problem. Thanks.
In that case please tell in which situations
Hi Rugxulo and Troi,
>> It could be a rare kernel bug, but my guess is some buffer overflow in the
>> IO95 lib. I think this problem is hidden by enabling DOSLFN.
>
> Yes indeed that did either mask or "fix" the problem. Thanks.
In that case please tell in which situations the bug does
happen a
Hi Troi,
> C:\ELVIS\DOC>find /i "env" e*.htm
> file list ...
> Error reading from drive A: DOS area: general failure
You mean it FIRST checks all files in the current
directory on C: but THEN tries to jump to the A:
drive? That sounds like a bug in the kernel, either
in the drive status ini
Hi Userbeitrag,
> The only solution for /modern DOS/ would be to write an emulation for a
> well supported sound card for older programs and games. That would be,
> say, a SB16 emulation driver for AC97 and HD-Audio on-board sound cards.
> So every DOS program/game would see the well supported
Hi Rugxulo,
> Regarding PCMCIA hard disks, I think Deskwork.de (defunct?) had once
> made public some partial DOS support (TP "unit") that was
> semi-archived by one FreeDOS enthusiast:
>
> http://ericauer.cosmodata.virtuaserver.com.br/soft/by-others/
Note that the Cosmodata mirror should only
Hi!
FreeDOS with only those components which mimick parts
of MS DOS will easily fit on 1, 2 or 3 diskettes of
1.44 MB each, depending on whether you want to have
full documentation and translations included. FreeDOS
on CD also includes lots of other free software :-)
> - I have just managed to f
Hi Mateusz,
> For those of you who followed my Svarog386 project: you might find it
> interesting that the current version of Svarog386 comes with a multi-
> lingual installer...
Thanks :-) In other 386-related news: XMGR, UIDE and UHDD recently
received updates for the closed-source versions t
Hi Dallas in Canada ;-)
> FreeDOS. I have a 40 GB Maxtor 6N040T0, a Pentium 4 2.8 GHZ
> processor, 1 GB of DDR RAM 400mhz, a generic integrated Intel AC'97
> Audio Controller, and an Intel 82865G Graphics Controller.
>
> So here is my question. Is it possible to run Windows 3.1 with sound
> an
Hi Ercan, looking at
http://help.fdos.org/en/hhstndrd/base/kpdos.htm and
http://help.fdos.org/en/hhstndrd/base/keyb.htm
you probably just used the wrong syntax. You want to use:
KEYB TR,,KEYBRD2.SYS /ID:440
So the country is only "TR" while the ID of the layout
variant 440 has to be given as s
Sorry about the double mail but I found another problem:
>> LH DISPLAY CON=(EGA,,1)
>> MODE CON CP PREP=((857) EGA.CPX)
You may have MODE in your PATH, but you forgot to specify
the full name of EGA.CPX, for example c:\freedos\cpi\ega.cpx
or c:\fdos\bin\ega.cpx or similar - depending on your DO
Hi Ercan,
> Hi. We have problem to using Turkish F keyboard on FreeDOS.
> MODE gives uncompressing and loading CPX file error.
> KEYB gives tr440 layout doesn't contain on KEYB2.SYS.
The MODE error is because you try to LH MODE: Do not use LH
for this, MODE needs enough memory to uncompress the
Hi Ercan,
if I understand you correctly, then the problem is not
with the harddisk but with CD / DVD / BluRay? Then you
may want to use the more specific UDVD2 driver instead.
Note that for live CD, you can also often use the tiny
ELTORITO driver because after booting from CD, you get
temporary
Hi, forwarding from the BTTR forum:
http://www.bttr-software.de/forum/forum_entry.php?id=14929
"If you are looking for a fine free DOS schematic drawing progam, Protel
Autotrax for DOS is free. You can find more info on an unofficial fan
page (tips & tricks, scanned manual and a lot of info, lin
Hi Bret,
> You may need to use the Microsoft KEYB program (from MS-DOS) rather than the
> FREEDOS KEYB program. While the FreeDOS KEYB program works pretty well most
> of the time, it is NOT a true equivalent to the MS KEYB program. It sounds
> like a BIOS compatibility problem, which the MS KE
Hi Salih!
Do you boot virtualbox with PXE and MEMDISK? Or do you configure
virtualbox to use the img file as "normal floppy drive A: content"?
As mentioned earlier using, PXE and MEMDISK can have side effects,
for example less RAM free for HIMEM and EMM386. Also, try if things
work better withou
Hi Salih,
thanks for sharing the 1.44 MB boot floppy image. It is correct that
you cannot send files to the list, but the config & autoexec easily
fits into a mail for the list by cut and paste:
> !DEVICE=A:\DRIVER\HIMEM.EXE
Supports options to manually select things but default should be okay.
Hi Salih,
not sure if you have fully answered all my questions, so let me
ask for details: Are you using PXE on virtualbox, too? Are you
using memdisk to boot via PXE? In short, are all aspects of the
software and configuration completely identical between the real
terminal pc hardware and the vi
Hi Salih,
> Keyboard layout is working well in virtualbox pc.
> But is not working in real machine as specs are given.
Oh okay misunderstanding on my side...
> We are using linux.cfg boot up from PXE to catch up mac adress with
> tftpserver.
If you boot from PXE, then you probably use a boota
Hi Salih,
have you checked whether there could be a problem with the
settings of your host operating system and/or virtualbox?
Unfortunately Turkish is not among the layouts built into
the smaller MKEYB driver, otherwise you could try if that
works better than KEYB. Please explain exactly in whi
Hi, forwarding from the BTTR forum post by Laaca today :-)
Blocek 1.5b released [...] minor version with new features.
Download from here: http://www.laaca.sweb.cz
Czech users can use this site: http://www.laaca.borec.cz
Blocek 1.5b:
+ now can display the Exif info in JPEG files and export
Hi Dimitris,
> Based on Eric's comments and with Jack's help, I was able to get rawrite3
> to work under freedos by a) loading lowdma.sys in fdconfig.sys early
> during boot b) LH rawrite3.
You probably mean the LOWDMA sys and com which come with UMBPCI. In that
case, you can patch 80FCA05B into
> I keep getting the error dma crosses 64k boundary when using tools like
> rawrite3 or hard drive manufacturers tools floppy creation software. I need
> to boot from Windows 98 bootdisk to get rid of it.
Maybe your BIOS or MBR-based dynamic drive overlay / EZ-drive is
less flexible with DMA boun
Hi Kai,
> I've been trying for the last two hours or so to find out how to use a
> German keyboard with FreeDOS. There is enough information, but some...
The easiest driver is probably MKEYB:
http://www.freedos.org/software/?prog=mkeyb
It does not need extra files and has several popular layo
Hi again, here is an improved version of Jack's trick:
By using UHDD /B instead of UIDE, to squeeze out a bit
more free low DOS RAM in the first 640k without getting
risks of "protected mode DMA service troubles" with too
cheap new BIOS versions: UIDE can be loaded safely into
UMB after loading U
Hi, here is an interesting suggestion from Jack: In spite of the
limitation of FreeDOS to support only one UMB provider, it seems
to be possible to do the following to mix different UMB sources:
> [...] It is NOT necessary to modify your kernel to get more UMBs
> in the monochrome-video area. A "
Hi JAS,
indeed I am trying to motivate people to use TLS/SSL ;-)
There must be SOME browsers for DOS which can handle it!
Note that I was talking about Google Drive, not the basic
search engine. The Drive needs a lot of heavy JavaScript.
Eric
> https://www.auersoft.eu/soft/specials/
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Hi Dimitris,
> I retried sys c: from the 2031 bootdisk and it failed to boot, hanging at
> Loading FreeDOS, hard drive working like mad, I rebooted with the same
> floppy, did the same thing, and it booted. Tried again with sys 3.6e,
> hang again, tried again with sys 2.6, was able to boot again.
Hi Dimitris,
> So I did, with sys 3.6e - FreeDOS 1.2 pre floppy:
>
> sys c: /FORCE:CHS - system hangs on reboot
> sys c: /FORCE:LBA , followed by sys CONFIG c:\kernel.sys FORCELBA=1
> GLOBALENABLELBA=1
>
> - system tries to BOOT, hangs at Loading FreeDOS , the hard drive
> works like mad until
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