Hi Darrin,
> Hi all, Is there a way of creating a rom version of free-dos? I have
> several XT class boards I'd like to make use of without having to
> rely on other media
Actually RayeR has already done that, although not for XT class :-)
http://www.rayer.g6.cz/romos/romose.htm
Note that CPU-p
Hi Franta,
> I got the impression that string declared as
>
> char mystring[]="$DOSEMU$";
>
> is in memory stored as null-terminated string.
This does not help you: The OTHER string STARTS
with "$DOSEMU$", but is NOT null terminated, so
both strings still differ. Unless you explicitly
say you
Hi Franta,
> struct dosemu_detect {
> char magic[8];
> unsigned char ver[4];
> };
> static struct dosemu_detect far *p = (void far*) 0xF000FFE0;
Note that the way how you create far pointers can differ
between compilers. In particular, with any 32
Hi Knute,
> Can you help, please?... I finally installed FreeDOS into VirtualBox,
> except at the very end of the install instead of the window where the
> instructions say "Now we boot FreeDOS in our virtual machine" (select
> "1")... instead of that the DOS window says "Bad or missing Command
>
Hi Dennis,
> I have an assortment of sites bookmarked that make effective use of
> Flash, but Flash is an option, and they can be used without it.
> (The sites are art, design, and fashion sites...
Please give some example what they do with flash. Do they use it
for example for their image galler
Hi Dennis,
>> 2).
>> http://youtube-eng.blogspot.nl/2015/01/youtube-now-defaults-to-html5_27.html
Very nice :-)
> I infer that you need a relatively current browser.
Yes, and those video codec libraries are not small at all.
So even if you would add just enough HTML5 to a DOS browser
to displ
Hi Thomas,
> There was, many years ago, a port of X Window from Unix to DOS, known
> as X-Appeal.
>
> One could download a crippled version or pay $199 for the full,
> working (?) version.
>
> I never tried it.
Old versions of SuSE Linux came with some X server for DOS.
However, that only allo
Hi Don,
> Is anyone working on a functional GUI for FreeDOS? I currently use Windows
> 3.1 as I do consider it to be a gui and not an operating system and it is
> about 90 percent functional. It would be nice to have a completely open
> source OS though.
Windows is much more than a GUI. There ar
Hi Javier,
your question is not related to "USB to serial adapters and soundcard
emulation on FreeDOS", so please start a new topic instead of replying
to Guillem's thread next time, thank you! So here we are... You wrote:
Hola: A. Necesito hacer un disco multi-partición, que por lo menos
conten
Hi Guillem,
> In response to Eric, I have tried DOSemu and I did manage to get the
> serial ports to work. I had a few problems with it, though. Neither the
> PC speaker or the Sound Blaster worked. To be honest I’m not sure if the
> netbook I was running it on has a PC speaker anyways.
Normally
until a better alternative is available since I
don’t think I’ll purchase a new laptop just for this.
Thank you.
> On 11 Jan 2015, at 22:19, Eric Auer wrote:
>
>
> Hi Guillem,
>
> for another solution of your screen reader problem, you could
> use Linux (for which free
Hi Tom, others,
>> Now the new multi-TB hard drives have 4096-byte physical sectors,
>> at least some of them try to act as if sector size were 512 bytes.
>
> virtually ALL disks act as having 512 byte sectors, even if they have
> internally 4096 byte ('advanced format').
...
> only recently 4
Hi again,
> When formatting a harddisk partition (or flash or whatever the actual
> medium is), MS FORMAT relies on a correct boot sector already having been
> created by FDISK. I discovered this not long ago when I tried to resize a
> partition by tweaking the MBR with a sector editor.
Yo
Hi!
> The DOS format utility is kind of an anachronism at this point. Usually it
> takes a long time to format a partition because it's iterating through
> every sector of the disk. It's completely unnecessary these days. All it
> really needs to do is write a boot sector, FAT, and root dir
Hi Dale,
> I can think of only 2 ways an engineer can get those speeds out of a
> serial device. A very fast clock or big external buffers. I think DOS
> could handle a fast clock but if they use buffers; DOS may not know
> how to use them like windows or Linux. I never used SATA so I can't
> say
Hi John,
> I can see and modify the files in the ISO image used to create a bootable CD
> for
> FreeDOS, but how and where do I add autoexec.bat and config.sys files to the
> image and thus the bootable CD -- and where would I put the associated files
> (like SomeDriver.sys)?
Because DOS cannot
Hi Mateusz, DOSers,
> I noticed that QV got some interesting support for external sound
> drivers. This looks really nice, I'm wondering whether it would make
> sense to design such an "official" API for newly created (and/or
> newly-ported) apps...
How about the VESA audio API? Rarely suppor
Hi folks :-)
Jim Michaels recommends the following long file name tool project:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/lfntools/?source=directory
Maybe other FreeDOS users already have experiences
with that project and can share them here? Thanks :-)
Cheers, Eric
--
Hi Karen,
> In freedos I mean?
> Has been a while since I asked. still I am considering a freedos
> experiment for a laptop. I want to know if the tools needed and that work
> have been investigated of late?
As you mention in another mail that this is about wireless network:
I am not aware
Hi!
> control screen resolution. FREEDOS runs as a tiny screen in
> the center - very annoying. I haven't found any dos sound driver
Your screen may have a hotkey to zoom to full screen.
It probably defaults to show 1 pixel as 1 pixel, with
the default DOS resolution much lower than what your
sc
Hi!
> first, am I correct that one can boot freedos from a USB stick?
> Say with an off the shelf sort of laptop?
Yes. There are several tools to put DOS on USB sticks.
Yet we do not offer easy tools on our own homepage for
that as far as I remember. The topic comes back from
time to time on t
Hi!
> Try installing manually, i.e. "fdisk, fdapm coldboot, format, sys".
> I assume you know the drill. :-)
Indeed... use FDISK, FORMAT and SYS and throw in a few
reboots between steps to make sure that DOS is in sync
with all changes, just in case.
>> USB Flash Drive: TOSHIBA TransM
Maybe
Hi Dale,
> Thanks for the link but it takes you to an HTML 5 page, which is a dead
> end. Thankfully 99% of the web still uses HTML 4. The world needs HTML 5
> the same way it needs cancer and war. The web needs an constant standard
Actually HTML 5 is better than Flash for video and animation...
Hi Mateusz, hi players, hi mousers :-)
> - Fix for mice that return fake release clicks during an onclick event,
To give some cutemouse background on this: The bug so far affected
only Rugxulo's mouse and only the ctmouse 2.1 branch, which uses
the BIOS PS/2 functions to interact with the mous
>From Zbigniew, in reply to my off-list question:
> Hi!
>
> Short question, is this mail about FDAPM or is it about UIDE?
Actually, I wrote it about UIDE, but...
> And does it help to use the ADV:REG option for FDAPM instead
> of the APMDOS option?
...but indeed: replacing APMDOS parameter wi
Hi Felix,
the FORCELBA option has no influence on the boot sector:
It belongs to the "modify config flags in the kernel file"
feature set of SYS instead. So only AFTER the boot sector
loads a kernel, FORCELBA applied to the kernel would have
the effect that the kernel always uses LBA to access F
Hi! You misunderstood me... USB is SLOWER than PS/2, so my
recommendation was to use PS/2 keyboard and mouse! But you
had those already.
If you switch off legacy USB support in the BIOS, you must
use PS/2 keyboard for your BIOS setup again. Because, as
you noticed, USB keyboard will not work if y
Hi :-)
> - Sorry, somewhat new terms to me, need to study a bit... INVLPG seems
> to be assembler command..? Anyway this machine is pentium, about 10years
> old. I have GRUB dualboot FreeDOS/Slitaz 4.0 Not fast but everything
> works (except Autocad issues..)
Older Pentium may have limited pe
Hi!
> After a fresh install of FreeDos, I found turbo c 2.01 is terribly slow to
> run.
That depends on what you mean by Turbo C. The IDE (editor) of it?
Compiler? Some program written in Turbo C? What kind of program?
> even the speed of scrolling the screen is unacceptable. However,
> when I
Hi Graham,
> I appreciate this may have been asked before but I can't find the
> answer in the archives. I have a bootable USB stick with FREEDOS on.
> My PC has no parallel or serial port, only USB, wi-fi and Ethernet.
> How do I print? Thanks
You could try Bret's USB drivers or copy the to be
Hi Rinaldo, how are you? Has been a while...
To be honest, I would use a standard Linux system for
this driver work. They often make it easy to activate
screenreaders which they already have included and of
course they support lots of soundcards. I do not know
how user-friendly the screen reader
Hi!
> For example (from my dosemu/FreeDOS undex X Window tests):
>
> 1) Using default VGA X font & without load DOS display - then setting
> mode con cols=132 lines=43 result in garbage on screen. With loaded
> display it works fine. In both cases 'mode con' print
> "VESA mode 0x010A: 132 x 43
Hi!
Not sure if this helps, but DISPLAY CON=(EGA,,1) should
be sufficient for all your needs. For the font support,
EGA is pretty much the same as VGA and display only is
for loading custom fonts. If you do not plan to load a
non-BIOS font, you do not even need display at all. The
documentation o
Hi! Note that this thread is about a PC-XT computer:
In FreeDOS, only the 32-bit DOSFSCK supports FAT32.
Our 16-bit CHKDSK does not. Yet only CHKDSK can run
on the old PC-XT, which interestingly has an ISA IDE
harddisk controller with LBA capable BIOS on it :-)
The FAT32-enabled CHKDSK of Win9x MS
Hi Sparky,
> Why dosn't chkdsk support fat 32 yet? i have an IBM XT that had FAT32
> DRIVES AND i cannot check them for errors >< i have to pull it out and
> check them on my newer machines >http://p.sf.net/sfu/NeoTech
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Hi!
> I do not use EMM386 (JEMMX has been loaded with NOEMS option).
The NOEMS option just means "do not reserve 64 kB EMS 3 page
frame area so more UMB space is free". You can still use EMS
4 calls (which need no page frame). Also, importantly, JEMMEX
always uses protected mode, NOEMS option or
Hi Rugxulo, Anton, some more ideas through the list again :-)
> MS-DOS works well with MS-HIMEM loaded by PXE the same way.
> FreeDOS just hangs while trying to load MS-HIMEM.
Rugxulo, is that something that has happened before?
I am not sure but this sounds vaguely familiar. The
driver (from Wi
Hi Anton,
> FreeDOS 1.0 gives more debug information on such problem while newer FD1.1
> just
> cycle with "Invalid opcode" or reboot.
This can also depend on whether you run EMM386-style drivers or not.
If yes, those can show error messages. If no, either the kernel will
show error messages o
Hi Dan,
> I love FreeDOS and have taken to fooling around with an installation on one
> of my primary partitions. I've done some research about compatible sound
> hardware for the current kernel, and (please correct me if I'm wrong) it
> seems to me that PCI sound cards simply will not work with
Hi Rugxulo, mcelhanon, guys,
> The only technical document I know of about this is here, but I'm not
> sure it'll directly help you:
>
> http://ericauer.cosmodata.virtuaserver.com.br/soft/specials/win3.x-dosext-freedos-notes.txt
That is so old, I would guess we have already implemented most of
Hi!
> I recently purchased an Acer Revo RL80,connected up and switched on.The
> system started to load and then failed,leaving the message NO DRIVES
> ASSIGNED CANNOT LOAD SHCDX33A !
That only means that your CD/DVD driver did not load: Looking at the Acer
website, the Revo is a tiny PC without
Hi!
To compile FreeDOS MODE, you need the following:
upx (in any of your PATH directories)
nasm (same)
tcc (Turbo C 2.01, search in the Borland museum / ask Rugxulo)
make (also the old Borland version, I assume)
In theory, it is also possible to compile mode with OpenWatcom C,
using "wcl" inste
Hi Robert,
as far as I remember, XT machines are 16 bit, so Ubuntu
cannot run on that processor and on that amount of RAM.
Regarding FreeDOS, I am not sure whether you tried to
install it from the USB stick to the USB stick or to
the harddisk of the computer: Some BIOSes make sticks
look as if t
Hi, I have to follow-up myself on LZ-DOS:
> google translate of http://dos.nm.ru/ is only a kernel, freeware
> provided as-is by JSC. Can be used with the userspace tools and
> drivers of other DOS variants and generally sounds interesting.
...
> You mean LZ DOS is an improved rip of the MS DOS
Hi Jack,
> Note on the FreeDOS "main page" that there are comments about FreeDOS
> offering "LBA" large-disk capability (48-bit disk addressing, not 24-
> bit "CHS"), which MS-DOS did not have, and which the "main page" says
> was unavailable except with DOS Windows.
I think that FreeDOS should
Hi!
> Hi all! Please, tell me, how to install (under FreeDOS) Sound Blaster
> soundcard; (maybe somewhere exist some wiki, FAQ, or possibly you are
> expert?)
>
> some additional info:
>
> model CT 4830, "Live"
>
> lspci: (usb, damaged embedded network card, embedded ac97 sound card -
> disabl
Hi :-)
>> Also, what are the chances that someone within the FreeDOS community may
>> one day write a driver for a filesystem which supports extended
>> attributes? Not necessarily support for a standard filesystem (ext2,
>> ext3, etc), mind you. A homebrew filesystem too would be good enough, I
Hi!
> Hi Eric. Extended attributes (often abbreviated as xattr) are a given in
> all modern file systems. Basically, extended attributes are metadata
> fields which, in addition to the standard fields (date_created,
> date_modified, size, read_only, hidden, etc), the user can arbitrarily
> create
Hi Karen,
please let me clarify: My "ignored" question was regarding
the sizes of the damaged files and the files that overwrote
them and the file format of those files. Of course having
important files "almost lost" causes a lot of stress, but
asking off-list was not meant to waste your private
Hi Karen,
> Why are you writing me privately for a list discussion?
Because I had asked several times without getting an
answer, so I assumed you might want to keep those
details off-list.
> Not sure why these would be plain text either, they are wordperfect 6.0,
> actually, or why it impacts
Hi Karen,
what I meant is that Microsoft bought a version of
DEFRAG and UNDELETE from Norton, so they are from
older versions of Norton Utilities. There was no
complete Norton Utilities included with MS DOS...
What do you mean by "there are two files now"? Is
the partition with the overwritten f
Hi Karen,
> let me simplify this some.
> I just did this about three hours ago. I have done nothing to the drive
> where the file was, in an effort of being very very sure it can be
> recovered.
As mentioned, the 2002 version of FreeDOS undelete avoids to write
the drive FROM which you extrac
Hi again,
given that I have very little information about your problem and
situation, I just give you a very big pile of ideas - maybe there
is something useful in it, or maybe something to ponder further.
>> First of all, I did not make myslf clear. I was not running win98.
>> I was only run
Hi Karen,
> I xcopied the contents of my c drive to my e, which is a problem for
> one major file.
> if I want to recover this file as it was before the xcopy process, is
> there anything I can do?
Depends. If you deleted a file, you can try to undelete
it. In MS DOS, undelete starts at a del
Hi John,
> to clarify, I ran sys c: from a freedos floppy to write over the win98
> OS with freedos. that is how this all started.
Ah, so you do not need Win98-DOS any more? That is easy :-)
Actually the question then becomes: Apart from the FreeDOS
warning about geometry, which is mostly cosm
Hi John,
> As usual when I present problems on these mailing lists, the solutions
> are complex. Nothings easy! I also have a tendency to not explain
> completely. Usually I'm pretty precise. I am not running any MS
> Windows on this computer. I am running the "DOS 7.10" from Win98 on
>
Hi John,
>>> - InitDiskWARNING: using suspect partition Pri:1 FS 0b: with calculated
>>> values
>>> 81-194-63 instead of 75-254-63
BIOS and partitioning disagree about CHS geometry and
your partition type 0b is FAT32 CHS. You could switch
to FAT32 LBA where geometry is irrelevant. Note tha
Hi Matej,
thanks for your research :-)
> It seems that there is just one special API function for double byte
> character sets, 6300h:
>
> http://www.ctyme.com/intr/rb-3142.htm
> http://www.ctyme.com/intr/rb-3143.htm
>
> It returns a table of ranges of valid DBCS leading bytes. This allows
Jack,
"another week, another UIDE update" is probably just a compliment, no
complaint... Regarding your most recent update: Until we support EFI
(UEFI?) GPT partitioning, FreeDOS only supports 2^32 sectors for FAT
partitions on int13 disks in the kernel. However, it is possible that
some driver (
Hi Bojan,
[Tom]
>> the very idea of 7zip is to tar first (internally), then compress.
[Bojan]
> Very idea of 7zip is a specific compression algorithm, not a way
> the compressing utilites work. :)
Actually you are BOTH right. As Rugxulo already mentioned, there is
a difference between archives
Hi!
> http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/3612.html
This tutorial is from 2006... It describes how to use some Windows
tool for making a stick bootable with DOS after providing FreeDOS
files to use for that... Still a valid method to do, but does not
mean that a specific kernel version h
Hi Bret, Mateusz,
I may be mistaken, but I believe DOSEMU had issues with
the CMOS (up to 32768 Hz) IRQ as a source of timing? It
may also be not so cool with other VMs, have not checked.
You can try with the IUS BBS Addy which I have mirrored:
http://ericauer.cosmodata.virtuaserver.com.br/soft
Hi :-)
> I had a few minutes of free time lately and felt the inexplicable need
> to write a Nibbles clone (remember this game that was shipped with
Hehe :-D
> The first (best so far) is checking the time in a loop (at 18,2Hz), and
> performing an int15h AX=5305h at every iteration to notify
Hi Bertho,
maybe Tom does not have the patience to explain you
why there are good reasons why FreeDOS does things
the way they are done, but you can trust him :-) If
you take the time to FULLY understand the issue and
then have exact ideas on how to do things yet better,
you are most welcome to s
Hi Bertho,
this thread seems to mix two topics: MS DOS command.com keeps
transient data in non-MCB areas. When, after running commands,
that area is found damaged, contents are dropped and reloaded
or recreated. As Tom already pointed out, the location of the
master env in FreeCOM is "near the en
Hi Ezequiel,
> Hello all, I'm really new in FreeDOS but I am also old enough to have
> started working on MS-DOS 2.1
>
> The thing is I want to run my old Turbo Pascal programs. So I configured a
> VirtualBox FreeDOS virtual Machine (my PC has Ubuntu 12)
>
> ...and now I'm stucked on copy the Tu
Hi, so Atomiks runs in DOS with HX?
> * keyboard is buggy ... it buffers too much and the red square notoriously
> runs beyond target position ... disable buffering or eat away and discard
> keypresses until buffer is empty before waiting for a new keypress
Does it work better with Atomiks i
Hi!
>> ... Do you really need milliseconds that badly? In my ANSI C
>> version, I used both clock() and time()/difftime(), mostly because one
>> method doesn't seem to work in my Linux install. One way should tell
>> parts of seconds, the other only whole seconds. Either way is "close
>> enough",
Hi!
> I tried to chown while it was mounted and the response was "operation
> not permitted". that is why I did it umounted. can I incorporate the
> -o uid=john into the fstab, as I am not performing a separate mount
> command., or should I not mount it all in fstab, but use "unix mount
> e
Hi!
If you mount something to a directory, it shows up there
instead of the directory. This is why chown *before* the
mount has no effect. You could chown *after* the mount,
or use the -o uid=john option for mount. Mount also has
many other options, but avoid making things too complex.
Eric
> I
Hi Bernd, Pierre,
>> Something like this still has some legacy
>> controllers/connectors/headers:
>> http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Fatal1ty%20Z77%20Professional/?cat=Specifications>
>> I bought an ASROCK MB that had a floppy controller on it, but I had
>> to return it as a defectiveunit. I may
Hi USB users :-)
This is a reply to FDOS basic how-to questions, trying to
give an introduction to Bret's drivers and a summary of
the documents or at least ideas about which bits to read.
>> As somebody already replied, you could make a bootable USB stick
>> with DOS.
>
> Yes, but how? I d
Hi Pierre :-)
> 1> How can I use my USB flash drives in FDOS? I checked my CMOS
> settings. 'Legacy USB' support is enabled, but when I tried accessing
> the flash drive in FDOS, it wasn't available. I'm assuming, once
> working, I would be able to use it as a floppy? This would allow me
> to
Hi!
> - FreeDOS (NO mouse, NO cdrom, etc...)
> - MS Client to map network drive (memory hog!).
> - to have at least 500+ KB free mem to run old Clipper/dBase program.
A complicated combination. Have you considered either:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbour_compiler recompiling your
Clipper p
Hoi Louis,
please explain the hack / patch: Is the only thing that
you changed that the kernel is compiled for those CPUs?
Are there actually any differences between them? I can
imagine that OpenWatcom makes 186 and 286 the same and
everything above 386 the same. Unless the kernel would
contain h
Hi Felix,
>> I created two PRIMARY partitions: a 39GB one and a 1GB one. I marked the
>> second partition as Active...
Note that because your partition starts after the first
8 GB, no matter which geometry you use, the partition
can only be reached with LBA. So "FAT32 with LBA" would
be a good p
Hi! Returning to the list...
> I'm not a "nerd"
Then dosbox is for you :-) It is for people who
"simply want to run old DOS games" (or other DOS
software) in a window in Windows, so I suggest
to try that first.
Talking about risks: If you for example install
VirtualBox, it creates a simulation
Hi!
> Anyone know where i can get a generic SVGA VESA driver for freedos?
> I try univbe but it says I need a S3 chip..
VBE is usually something which is built into your VGA BIOS,
installed on your graphics hardware. Only for really old
cards, it is useful to load UNIVBE or similar as DOS TSR.
Hi!
> If I do: shsucdx >a.txt
> it creates the 'a.txt' and redirects the output into a.txt;
> but if I do this: vol h: >a.txt
> it creates the a.txt, but the file is empty; what is more, the output o
> f'vol' goes to the screen, so is not being redirected.
> I tried this with msdos with the
Hi sparky,
(PS: Please decide on which of the 3 lists this should be discussed)
> FreeDOS's mem program output only 4 GB of detected memory out of the
> machine's total 16 GB Dose this mean FreeDOS can only detect 4GB
> maximum?
This is NOT related to the kernel: MEM only reports what EMS,
Hi Karen,
> One of the 8 gazillion things that makes this dell to dos laptop project
> I have been working on such an adventure is the windows hardware
> limitations.
> in this case, a built in modem that is hardwired in the bios to respond
> only to windows.
You probably have a "winmodem",
Hi!
> If that doesn't work then a exist.c should be made that friend 1 errorlevel
> if so let me know and I make it
You misunderstood, IF EXIST does exists but has to
be used in a special way for directory checks ;-)
>> Is there something like this in FD?
Yes of course: Type "if /?" to see how
Hi!
If you are interested in Go, you may want to try AuGoS,
of which also a native DOS version exists. The webpage:
http://www.augos.com/go/augos.html
> Thanks too for the Chess links - my son and daughter are both just
> getting interested (though they prefer Go), and I'm afraid 'Battle
> Ches
Hi! Returning to the list... So you have tried:
> 1: Different disk managers (SpfDisk, Partition Magic, Power Quest,
> Fdisk, Fdisk in BasLinux(it can create partitions on all hdd,
> but can not mount it)
SPFDISK has this menu option "setup support FAT32"
which you can enable. Also, when you edi
Hi!
> No usb device like "usb wifi pens" or usb UMTS exist for a lack of drivers
> in
> dos .only exist older pcmcia 11 mb/sec wifi card (orinoco)
As mentioned earlier, you can go a bit more wired:
Even simple broadband routers like Edimax 3G-6200N
(30 Euro?) today allow you to plug in UMTS / 3G
Hi Carl, Bernd,
>> I have a newer HP printer and need drivers for DOS and Win311 also
>> Wordstar.
That depends on what you want to do - I assume most
printers can still print plain text, but WordStar
would allow you to use custom layout, probably just
a collection of Escape codes for, say, bold
Hi Richard!
> now it is only showing "FREEDOS", with the caret after it.
Probably cannot find a kernel? Different geometry / partition offset?
> I essentially used the steps found here:
> http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/BIOS_Update#FreeDOS_Environment
>
> Which is:
> 1. zero out a 20mb file or us
Hi!
> We are facing a difficulty with the 'copy' command in the
> network of our Health Center.
Have you tried smbclient? It accesses Samba / Windows
shares in the same style as "ftp" accesses FTP servers.
So there is no drive letter but also no big driver to
have around. Might work more reliabl
Hi Michael,
> This gui seems well on track to replace the aging and proprietary
> Windows 3.1, especially if it supports the win32 api.
If I understand correctly, FLTK helps you to port software
which is available in source code and to write new GUI DOS
software, but not to run existing Windows
Hi Karen, (Bob: please see below...)
important snippet from
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DR-DOS#After_Novell
Support for LBA and FAT32 originally was a DRFAT32 device driver,
so in old DR DOS, you first have to boot from a FAT16 partition
which is entirely in the first 8 GB of your disk and les
Hi Karen,
> does freedos has its own multitasking included in its latest package?
Not really. I remember there was something built into the
DREMM386 and DR-DOS, but I am not sure how far that would
work for what you need. Also, MS DOS had a task swapping
feature in DOSSHELL. As far as I remember
Hi!
> So, if I translate this.
> The person wanting to consider freedos, could not do as I can do on my ms
> dos 7.1 system, format a 20 gig drive split it into 10 gig sizes and have
> freedos recognize the fat 32 partitions thus created?
10 GB is much smaller than 2 TB, so there is no problem
Hi, to continue the thread...
Slightly below 2 GB are the normal limit for classic FAT16,
although variants exist. However, if you use FAT32, then
you could put 2 TB into a single drive letter! A Terabyte
is 1000 or 1024 Gigabyte, depending on whom you ask ;-)
Another limit is the MBR partitioni
Hi!
(Note to Felix: That yahoo group seems to be not open?)
> Yesterday I tested a little bit more and I noticed that these messages
> ("Run chkdsk: Bad FAT I/O: 0x...") don't appear if I change only one
> small step in my way: If I use the partition label c (FAT32) instead
> of 6 (FAT16), all i
Hi Bernd, Andre,
>> I was going to install FreeDOS 1.1 on a USB drive within qemu 1.1.1 on
>> Opensuse 12.2 32 bit. After selecting the language in the FreeDOS
>> installer, my notebook was busy during the next hour with thousands of
>> thousands of messages like "Run chkdsk: Bad FAT I/O: 0x...".
Hi! (BCCing Jack and Mr. Lego)
If I understand you correctly, you deliberately make
incompatible for many VirtualBox users in order to fix
it for a few users with LS120 drives with broken BIOS
support?
Can you give more details about the way in which the
BIOS of Christian Pfaller fails to report
Hi Karen,
while parted (the text tool behind gparted) is written
for Linux, the partitions that you edit or create with
it can be anything. There is no need to use a dos tool
to make a partition for DR dos. In particular when the
dos tool is not legally available anyway... As you say
another pers
Hi Mateusz,
In FreeDOS 1.0, most packages were in the same directory
structure of the same main FreeDOS directory. I do like
that approach. Note that it was not extreme in that: For
example Arachne, FBC, Emacs, GS, Lynx OpenXP, Pacific C,
Pegasus Mail and Setedit all had their own directories,
be
Hi :-)
> So, roughly speaking, the main (bootable) disk would be:
>
> KERNEL, FreeCOM, XMGR, JEMMEX, UIDE, CTMOUSE, DOSLFN, UNZIP16,
> 7ZDECODE, EDIT, SYS, FDISK, FORMAT, DISKCOPY, FDXMS286, HDPMI16,
> CWSDPMI, DOS32A, CWSTUB, XCOPY, SHCDX33F, RDISK,
That is at least a reasonable set of dr
Hi all,
Bochs 2.6 is available since 2012-09-03:
http://bochs.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/bochs/tags/REL_2_6_FINAL/bochs/CHANGES
You can download Linux and Windows versions and sources here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/bochs/files/bochs/2.6/
Things which are still buggy can be reported her
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