. This is a smart script by
Eric Auer that configures it with the appropiate parameters
$ ./sys-freedos-linux/sys-freedos.pl --disk=FreeDOS.img
DOS boot sector for FreeDOS.img will be created by:
nasm -o /dev/stdout -dISFAT12
./sys-freedos-linux/bootsecs/boot.asm
Using FAT12. Partn offset 0, CHS
Hi Bret,
The advantage of a write-delay cache is that that the writing can be
done when the system is idle (a simple form of multi-tasking).
That counts as advanced cache with a lot of code and can go as far as a
sort of ramdisk which syncs
back to the harddisk slowly but steadily when
Hi Bertho,
a DRIVER could interface with any disk with any sector size and
then just provide an int13 or int25/26 interface with 512 byte
sector size for data transfer to DOS.
I'm not opposed to this method, which I see as a workaround rather
than a fully satisfying answer however.
On one
Hi Jack,
Try to find any Write Back caches that do so much, for so little memory!
Sure, it takes more memory. If it is not just local pooling
within a few kB and with tiny timeout, it will take even more
memory, for logics and extra security logics for writeback.
But larger writes really
Hi Bertho, trying to reiterate / re-explain my plan / idea:
By the way - a DRIVER could interface with any disk with
any sector size and then just provide an int13 or int25/26 interface
with 512 byte sector size for data transfer to DOS.
As explained in a longer mail this week, it actually
Hi Bret,
yes you would see a problematic mismatch if you were to
talk raw SCSI or CHS to a disk while being inconsistent
about whether you use 512 byte or rather 4096 bytes per
sector...
However, when DOS mounts a partition with help of a
loadable block device driver, nothing would access the
Hi Bret,
USBDRIVE does not try to virtualize the sector sizes as others are
suggesting here as a possibility -- I figure doing that has the
potential to cause as many problems as the alternative...
Maybe you could make that configurable, so people can experiment
with virtual 512 byte sectors
Hi Bret,
maybe virtual 512 byte sectors are actually not that evil:
Imagine a NORMAL 4096 byte sector based FAT32 filesystem.
Each cluster and each FAT will be a multiple of 4096 byte
in size, as will be the boot and fsinfo sectors. In FAT32
the root directory is just any directory, so like all
Hi Mike,
The list membership is not that large. You can assume that people are
busy or don't know the answer.
I was grepping though a backup of our FAQ (which is down, is it
worth the effort to replay a September 2008 backup? Apparently
SourceForge server directory structure changed...) but
Hi Jeremy,
At this time there are no plans to explicitly support 4K block sectors
directly in the kernel. The kernel itself does not support any block
devices directly, it relies on the BIOS interface, though additional
drives or support may be added through device drivers.
Unfortunately,
Replaying a 12 May 2005 mail :-)
[Freedos-kernel] Analysis: Support for sector sizes != 512 bytes
Hi, I have browsed the CVS kernel a bit, and got the impression
that it would not be too hard to support sector sizes below 512
bytes (32, 64, 128 and 256 bytes should be possible). For sector
Hi Dos386,
[Freedos-kernel] FreeDOS 1.1 released
http://jafile.com/uploads/dos386/freeds11.png
- What's the purpose of the menu item Pasquale (see top shot) ?
It is not a menu item, just a dedication :-(
Maybe the fact that it is highlighted made
it look like a menu item for you... I guess
Hi Jack,
driver, I issue 28-bit commands for up to 28-bit addresses,
while I issue 48-bitters for larger addresses. Runs fine!
I meant if the BIOS only sees the first 2^N sectors and
the partition table describes more than that, UIDE will
probably not modify the BIOS-reported disk size: So
Hi Bernd, everybody,
let me add some more comments to this interesting DOS
thread and wish everybody a happy 2012 as well... :-)
1. Would like to ask how much memory does FreeDOS support, e.g. 4 GiB?
If you have 4 GB or more, many mainboards will map your
graphics card RAM etc to the end of
Hi Tiago,
Are there any hints to install FreeDOS inside a Qemu box? I'm trying
this right now, but the installation process is damn slow. This is
the Qemu command line:
Well Qemu emulates everything, including the CPU, as far as I
remember - you could try Dosemu (if you use Linux or BSD) as
Hi Karen,
At the risk of seeming like a baby, may I have a direct link?
www.bttr-software.de/forum/board_entry.php?id=10797page=0order=timecategory=0
mentions at least two builds:
http://nanox-microwindows-nxlib-fltk-for-dos.googlecode.com/files/DilloDos-beta1-SFN.zip
and
Hi Mike, Andrew,
You should look for a product called Disk On Module. They are
composed of FLASH chips and are designed to be direct replacements for
IDE hard drives. Unlike a lot of CF cards that can be used with an CF
to IDE adapter but might not support CHS addressing, DOMs are
Hi again!
Sorry to react in two mails, but flash disks are a nice topic :-)
Thanks Michael for the heads-up on DOM technology - it had completely
missed my radar and after a bit of research I agree with your advise
entirely to go with that rather than SDcard/CFcard+IDE adapter...
In
Hi Robert,
Eric, you said dosemu does not need sudo. This is one of things that
happen when I don't - Bob T.
robert@robert-desktop:~$ dosemu
can't open /home/robert/.dosemu/boot.log for writing
robert@robert-desktop:~$
Apparently your first / previous run was with sudo. You can simply
Hi!
Assume I am on Ubuntu Desktop. Then use terminal command sudo dosemu.
Dosemu needs not and should not be run as root, it works fine in X :-)
small (approx. 2 by 4) window appears. I usually go to full screen in
2 ways: (1) click in the box in upper right, corner; or (2). use the
Hi!
I was wondering how secure is FreeDOS on a network.
FreeDOS has no network, so it is complete secure ;)
Does that means FreeDOS would not be able to support multiplayer
network DOS games like Doom, CC, etc.. which MSDOS is able to do so
with ethernet?
FreeDOS supports exactly the
Hi Alain,
In creating JEMM386, Japheth did not merely improve things! He
made FD-EMM386 RUN PROPERLY!
Finaly you agree with me! Michael Devore's emm386 was tested very
very much by the members of FreeDOS and Michael fixed ALL issues.
You misread that ;-) Saying *Japheth* made FD-EMM386
Hi Jack,
HIMEMX and XMGR both improve on the old 30K MS-DOS HIMEM which is
overloaded with obsolete A20 code for now-defunct PCs.Japheth
and I have some differences, but I have used HIMEMX and think it is
quite equal to XMGR. XMGR does have direct support for UMBPCI, as
I note in the
Hi!
Does anyone know if there is a pmtools (
http://www.lesswatts.org/projects/acpi/utilities.php) port to FreeDOS?
I need dump the acpitable and extract all tables.
Try FDAPM ACPIDUMP (may need HIMEM) to get an hexdump, e.g.
FDAPM ACPIDUMP tables.txt
You can cut and paste interesting
Jack,
FD-EMM386 is very outdated, yes. But when it was still maintained,
updates were often tested by a number of users. With JEMM, it is
more like here is an update, enjoy.
I have reviewed Japheth's Changelog, I believe much of what he
had to do changing FD-EMM386 to JEMM386 are Flat-Ass
Hi Jack, Bret, Japheth, Alain, others,
First, I use and recommend JEMM386/JEMMEX with my UIDE and
other drivers. I absolutely REFUSE using old EMM386 by
Gates Co. because it has (A) Never-fixed BUGS in its VDS
Nobody suggested to use the EMM386 by MS... By the way, MS
does have a lovely
Hi everybody,
I agree that there is some controversy about EMM386 versus JEMM386
and JEMMEX... Basically the former had a focus on careful testing,
while the latter has a focus on if it is cool for Japheth, it is
also likely to be enjoyed by other users. So the J drivers indeed
are more modern
Hi!
I am interested in installing an external modem in FreeDOS so that I can
fax documents or make phone calls. Does FreeDOS come with any software
that can allow for modem installations?
If the modem is connected via serial port (RS232) then
you can use any DOS modem stuff with any
Hi John,
I've got an ISA SB16 on a 486 box I've installed FreeDOS on.
Very old hardware :-)
installed, enough that games can recognize and use the hardware.
Very nice. Only true ISA soundcards really please old games.
However, I'm still running into some trouble with it. CTSB16.SYS and
Hi :-)
Look this nice code that we cant run on Freedos
http://windowstipoftheday.blogspot.com/2005/03/ms-dos-calculator.html
To do calculations in FreeDOS, use the FreeCOM feature
to SET an environment variable from the output of any
program and use CALC387 (only 1024 byte) as calculator.
Hi James,
I have an external speech synthesizer that I have been fooling around
with on my host os. Mac os x 10.7 lion.
In order to use the synthesizer on my mac I had to get a usb2serial
adaptor and install it's driver.
...
Anyway, I just wondered if anyone had any info or help on
Hi Mike,
Please, someone go ahead and get the code, form another community, and
continue development if this project is still worthwhile.
Pity to hear that you are so disappointed about them, but of
course you can only wait and lobby... I mean if people need
a WinNT/Win2k or maybe even newer
Hi Ralf, James,
I am wondering how to set up my device in virtualbox to work with
freedos? I have looked in the settings for my guest os, freedos. I
see under ports a section on serial ports, and also a section on
USB. But I don't know which would relate to my external speech synthesizer.
Hi Ralf,
my idea was that the serial hardware device to USB hardware
port conversion was done in hardware, so either covered by
working hardware or hopeless... Next step is getting from
real USB port to anything accessible inside a VM and I had
the idea that a typical VM shows USB to guests as
Hi,
If all you need is to make your own .ISO to burn to CD, try this:
mkisofs -R -D -V FreeDOS 1.1rc1 -o ~/fdbasecd-remastered.iso \
-b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat \
-no-emul-boot \-boot-load-size 4 \
-boot-info-table /tmp/fdbasecd-contents/
Let me see...
Hi Michael,
An rsync server? I need help ... there is not enough time
If you ask me, rsync works well and is safer when you can do
it over ssh, but that sort of leads to the question whether
you have a SSH server for DOS. Nice clients include ssh2dos.
strict programming API I can use temp
Hi Michael,
Another area of trouble for Freedos is this, is there enough freely
available software for DOS environments? Is it even possible to buy
commercial DOS software any more at reasonable prices? Are the best DOS
programs ones that you will have to pirate?
When MS-DOS support
Hi!
I think there were some ideas about DOS extenders for using
multi core multithreading within DOS apps
HX 2.15 + 7-ZIP ... never came out.
Interesting, how far did they get? What stopped the plans?
pbzip2 compresses multiple parts of a file in parallel, so you
can compress one large
Hi Michael,
sorry about covering so many topics in one mail :-) I tried
to use paragraphs. Also, you are welcome to shorten quoted
parts a lot when you write replies to my mail. Thanks :-)
I'm thinking of modern video cards and multiple core processors.
My modern video card works fine in
Hi!
Figuring out what to use multiple cores for is a problem in today's
world. What do you with seven cores? How about 100 cores? Multicore
chips are not coming into existence because making faster single core
chips doesn't make sense, they are coming into existence because making
faster
Hi Karen,
because I do a great deal of work from this machine, years worth of
data, audio production projects and the like I desire a method to back
up both of my dos drives safely that preserves the data. not just
files, entire drives. In this case, although they are not full this
What
Hi Julio,
if I understand you correctly, you need:
- a CD/DVD-RW driver (or just a read-only driver, it does not
matter then whether the disks are CD, CD-R, CD-RW or other)
Try UIDE for the hardware plus SHSUCDX for the filesystem...
They have verbose documentation but maybe somebody can
Hi Virii,
Does that mean I can use multiple cards somehow?
In theory, yes, in practice, it will depend on how
well you can edit the MPXPLAY etc config. Of course
at most one of the cards can use SB16/similar mode,
but as you say:
I figured it out. It figures the only card I know worked in
Hi for the third,
IIRC I had reported this BUG some time ago ... if volume is
empty, I want to see how much space for bloat I have ;-)
That is not a bug, dos386. FreeCOM command.com DIR does this
intentionally, as far as I remember for mimicking MS style,
which in turn might be necessary for
Jack,
Except for minimal boot systems, like yours and Lucho's
multiboot diskette, I recommend a minimum of 250-MB cache
to handle todays' LARGE Windows files. Copying a 100-
MB file will take 200-MB of UIDE's cache space (input and
output), and some cache space must remain for directories
Hi Bernd,
Jack's driver only accepts certain values. This might be intentional due
to specific caching algorythms.
Using XMSSIZE I'd still have to use a lot of errorlevel stuff:
if not errorlevel 5 , then use /B /N1 /N3
if not errorlevel 10, then use /S5
if not errorlevel .. etc.
if
Jack,
A cache might already know that the directories are more
useful because they are accessed more often ...
Sorry about the misunderstanding - I did not mean that the
cache would know what a FAT or directory is, just that those
sectors are accessed frequently, giving the cache a chance
Hi!
Has anyone had any luck installing this latest test release?
http://sourceforge.net/news/?group_id=5109id=302138
I've tried everything from burning it to a disc, to mounting the boot
floppy/iso through Grub4Dos, and even rebuilding the iso.
I read the readme.txt for the release,
Hi Andrew,
You were absolutely spot on with your assessment of my previous FAT
configuration, re strange file system corruption. Given the vintage of
the 430CDS I had originally assumed that FAT16 was the best way to
proceed, but this time with a little more research I reformatted in
FAT32
Hi!
Does anyone here know about connecting two PCI sound cards in FreeDOS?
I have two sound chips: One on my mainboard (something nForce HDA)
and one PCI ForteMedia FM801 (thanks Martin!). The former has good
quality in Linux but is ignored in DOS, the latter sounds worse in
Linux but works
Hi Jeffrey,
The FreeDOS wiki says that NASM is the reference assembler. However,
when I use FreeDOS DEBUG to disassemble (unassemble?) a com file,
the syntax for addressing memory is not NASM syntax.
This is intentional - DEBUG uses the same assembly language
syntax as MS DEBUG, so existing
Hi Virii,
please check the install known problems section:
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/freedos/index.php?title=Install#Known_problems
You are right that installing all includes some unstable
things such as old USB or network drivers which might crash
or hang during install. To avoid
Hi Henrique,
would anyone out there happen to know how did arabic DOS, on the old
days, deal with:
1) The control characters needed to handle the script - ZWJ (Zero-width
joiner), ZWNJ (zero-width non-joiner), RLM (right-to-left mark), LRM
(left-to-right mark) and control characters
Hi Bret,
I disagree here. You would only need reentrant handling if it could
happen that int 15.4f is called while int 15.4f already is busy.
This is unlikely for two reasons ...
Agreed: Unlikely, but absolutely not impossible.
Drivers should be designed to handle even unlikely events
Hi Jeffrey,
Would chaining interrupt 0x10 be reasonable? If I am not mistaken the FreeDOS
kernel
uses interrupt 0x10 function 0x0E to print characters to the screen. A TSR
could be
written to handle function 0x0E and pass the other functions to the BIOS.
Of course. In the old days of bad
Hi Jeffrey,
HOWEVER, the array, int 10 and CON are all officially assuming a
one byte is one character scenario so your layout is likely to
get messed up when you use UTF-8 and you cannot use UTF-16 anyway.
In color text modes, alternating bytes are used for character and attribute.
So if
Hi Garrison,
as freebasic (and freepascal, openwatcom, djgpp...)
are quite complete by now, you could consider using
your games in the qbasic-style mode of freebasic,
maybe with some porting... You could use the dosbox
Java applet port to run things in a web browser, or
somehow couple freebasic
Hi Bret,
int 15.4f is supposed to be called from the BIOS from the INT 09
handler, and NOBODY else.
I've done some more research regarding this, and it is never stated
anywhere that this function can ONLY be called from the INT 09
handler. That is merely an assumption on your part. As
Hi Bernd,
For example the ideal FreeDOS drive to install to is a C: which is:
* part of a harddisk
No really.
* harddisk is first harddisk on IDE/ATA/SATA controller
Should be easy to check.
* partition is large enough
* partition has enough free space
* partition is writable
*
Hi Kurt,
Maybe someone would know; was playing with old fashioned 16 bit graphics,
compiling with djgpp. The djgpp info warns that both bios and vga approach
go outside of protected mode, so that
mangling of the system is possible. Such programs don't even run in NTVDM
dos emulator, but work
Hi :-)
(I know Eric promotes my old 2008 RUFFIDEA [three disks] sometimes,
or even his Brezel mini distro, but I halfway think mine's too old
and quirky to be generally useful, esp. nowadays. Alas. And it's just
too hard to update properly, and I have real life chapping my ass,
so that
Hi, just a guess but...
If certain programs are loaded immediately after booting, the
computer appears to be locked, but after moving the mouse
everything is back to normal, and the machine will not lock again
until the next boot.
If you're not loading the mouse high, I can't imagine any
Hi Rugxulo,
Unicode (now at 6.0) is pretty damn huge. I don't know if...
While Unicode is huge, DOS keyboard layouts tend to be limited to
Latin and Cyrillic and some other symboly which is a tiny subset.
Well, determining which subset (for us) is the main problem.
You could start using
Hi!
The basic problem is that INT 15.4F is a BIOS function that can be
called by any program at any time. It's true that it is always
supposed to be called by the INT 09 handler...
all kinds of issues that must be taken into account in the
implementation, including the fact that it must
Hi Rugxulo, long Unicode story ahead :-)
Regarding FD-KEYB 3.0, I've been think of some ways that it could be
improved. I think one thing that would help immensely is to turn the
translation into a two-step process. The first step would be to
translate the input scancodes to Unicode,
Hi Santiago,
I was setting up a fresh FreeDOS machine and when I was about to download
the kernel 2039. I discovered there is a new 2040 version.
I think I miss the mail announcing it, but should I use it? Is it a stable
kernel?
As far as I remember, kernel 2040 (4/2011) fixes some small
Hi all,
I hope you noticed the comment at the end saying that Aitor is NOT
actually the sender of this mail. Among others hops, it came along
the German Alice DSL IP 85.177.229.61 - the mail header says this:
This message did not originate from the Sender address above. It was
remailed
Hi Johannes,
I have such an audiocard, which are listed in the soundcardfile from MPXPLAY
with native hardware access.
My problem is I have some games, I like to try with audio, but I can´t make
it work.
Like many modern soundcards, the Audigy soundcard will be AC97
or HDA compatible. In
Hi Johannes,
I have heard that the most soundcards work
with an old dosdriver for SB compatible cards.
Maybe not. The Audigy driver will probably be designed
only for Audigy cards. If the Audigy is AC97 compatible
it might be easy for Creative to also support more AC97
compatible cards - but
Hi Zbigniew!
Tried several times to use ordinary Soundblaster Live! under DOS -
and _never_ was able to make any use out of this card under DOS.
Note that SB Live! is not a SoundBlaster in the sense that SB 1.0,
SB 1.5, SB Pro, SB 2.0 or SB 16 are, it is not compatible to any
of those DOS
Hi!
RPN - perform integer calculations
If you need floating point: The 1024 byte(!) calc387.com will be
fun for you. For example Rugxulo's Ruffidea distro contains a copy
of the tool :-)
True, RPN can't do floating point. And even though it can be used
interactively, its main purpose
Hoi Bart-Jan,
I'm trying to install Freedos in a KVM Virtual Machine (Debian Stable)
using the base iso. However, it seems to halt at a - InitDisk message.
How do I get past this point? I've tried different hard disk sizes, as
small as 256MB, to make sure I would not hit any limit, but
Hi!
For those who read mails but do not follow all URLs,
and to already give some feedback and plug ads for
similar tools, DOSUTILS contains:
ASKECHO - prompt for user input
Note that FreeCOM command.com has a special SET for this.
TIMESTMP - write date/time in a very flexibly
Hi Andreas,
I have an ASUS EeePC 901 with an older SSD, that now has its internal 4G
partition (first flash drive) used for FreeDOS. It runs and I'm happy.
Most drivers, like UIDE and JEMM386, work very well.
The problem is mostly to get drivers, like VESA and SOUND, to run on these
Hi Marcos,
Do we have a utility to unload a program (a TSR, I suppose)
that does not have its own unload option?
I think I have such things but I do not remember whether
they came from the distro or from some other source.
This is to unload DPAKBD (a replacement for Tame).
Hints or
Hoi Bernd,
As Tom already mentioned, FreeDOS is usually included (typically on the
support CD) as an 'in-your-face' towards Microsoft with their 'every PC
has to be sold with an OS'...
However with the move of motherboard companies as well as BIOS writers
AMI and Award/Phoenix towards
Hi!
I make diode testers and need an operating system that is close to real
time. Also I need to sometimes interact directly with the computer
hardware. FreeDOS fills the bill on both counts and WINDOWS is useless.
I appreciate very much what you folks are doing and hope that I can help
in
Jack,
== so, imho, the drive A: is disapearing when UIDE is loaded. It looks
like an interaction between the BIOS boot driver that creates A: for the
CD boot image and UIDE :(
I wrote UIDE to be a standard system driver, not a CD boot driver,
and I was unaware that BIOS CD boot drivers
Hi Alain,
(I hope this messags comes though, 5th try...)
One got automatically blocked because it had a (too big)
attachment, and I think that is good. I see you already
transferred the same information without attachments :-)
Eric
Jack,
[others: this is a bit long/technical, the summary is that it
is both easy and safe to use shallow drive power management.]
The problem is WHERE does UIDE or any other driver wait for
a sleeping, i.e. stand-by hard disk to awaken again?? The
ATA specs do not make this clear. Can
Hi Cordata,
All this talk about UIDE prompted me to investigate this tool. It
looks interesting. How does the caching work for disk writes? I
assume that when the cache is full the next sector read in will cause
the oldest sector to be written out?
Neither UIDE nor lbacache nor cdrcache
Hi Christian,
if not exist mydir/nul md mydir
Doesn't work on XP (I think?), but that's the typical DOS way.
This kept bothering me for some reason, so I checked now.
It appears to work just fine on MSW NT command lines, executing the
command after if not exist dir\nul if and only if
Jack,
I read through and understood all your comments about hard-disk
power management, etc.
My problem is: I am not-interested in being the one who does
power management. If DOS or the BIOS wants to save power thru
putting disks into stand-by mode, let them do it...
There is not much
Jack,
There is not much to do there, as you only tell the disk once
and then the disk itself does the rest.
Amen!, so let the user handle this thru the BIOS setup routines
and let the BIOS tell the disk what to do during system boot!
BIOS vendors have many more programmers than just me by
Hi Ray,
This is CHKDSK beta 0.9.1
If there is a sub-directory present on a floppy, CHKDSK report seems
normal. If there is no sub-directory - whether or not there are files:
Assertion failed: size, file bitfield.c, line 34
Abnormal program termination
Is this to be expected?
No. I
Hi Marcos, Jack,
Readme.Txt says Power-saving features such as a 'drive
spin-down timeout' should be DISABLED.
...
Is that what I should disable? If so, does this mean that
the hard disk must keep running all the time if UIDE is used?
Of course DOS will freeze for a short
Hi!
... all the required sizes are multiple of six ...
A simple way is to reduce the character width is to
look for 2 consecutive columns with the same bits,
and delete one (as contain redundant information)
You need to deleted 2 columns on each glyph to get
a 6 columns matrix.
That
Hi Mark, Henrique,
ghostscript in general is a nice tool and there are ports for
DOS which work in FreeDOS or are even made for FreeDOS, I think
that for example Blair made one such port. Using 32 bit DOS C
compilers is no big problem, things still run on 16 bit DOS but
you will need a 386 or
Hi Henrique,
If I understood you correctly, by using FreeDOS GRAPHICS, I could send
a codepage directly to the printer's RAM (naturally, one which wasn't
already hardcoded into it). Am I right? It would be great.
No. You could print a screenshot of DOS showing text in some
(possibly
Hi Sorin,
I am kind of new to freedos operating system and I want to know if it
is ok to deliver it installed on assambled computers we deliver to a
customer.
In short yes - it is free software. You may want to look at
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/freedos/index.php?title=Install
Hi Henrique,
I just read a PDF file Epson ESC/P Reference Manual. It explains that
24-pin printers can receive definitions on 241 characters into its RAM
but those 9-pin LX printers cannot. They can only receive 6 characters
Well 241 is enough for normal purposes, control chars do
not
Hi Henrique, Bret,
interesting to know that there's someone out there, familiar to FreeDOS,
still using those 9-pin printers. At least here in Brazil they're still
used on lots of places because of their low operational cost.
Well, Eric and Konstantyn... So much for the museum idea!
Hi Henrique,
while I agree that it would be interesting to know which
character byte corresponds to which character shape for
lots of ancient printers, I almost cannot imagine any
pre-ESC/P printer to be still working and for those it
is always an (although slow) option to print text using
Hi, possibly related to some larger commits recently,
I noticed that a few people fell off the freedos-cvs
mailing list after bounces. I hope they read this or
somebody notifies them indirectly... Affected are:
? casino_e movistar (.es)
AITORaitorsm fdos
? freedos omalogic
Hi STF!
No, but I've dug a little bit deeper in the ISO file, and I think the
problem is elsewhere, but of course, correct me if I'm wrong. It
seems that the real O/S is loaded from isolinux/data/fdboot.img. This
fdboot.img is actually a gzip file containing another file called
IMAGE.
Hi Marcos,
Bret's USB keyboard driver worked perfectly for my two notebooks
(Compaq and IBM, both year 1999) and one desktop (Pentium 166).
It is unusual that the BIOS did not already do the keyboard for you.
*However*:
- There is an incompatibility with FDAPM. I forgot the details,
but
Hi Bret,
interesting to have a laptop which already has USB but does not yet
have USB keyboard BIOS support indeed... I hope you can find out a
bit more about USB versus FDAPM. Maybe on some machines USB has IRQ
uses which are not reliably enabled during HLT? Maybe even NMI/SMI?
Also
Hi Karen,
you have MS DOS on your IBM Thinkpad 560 with 3c562 network card.
You use SSH2DOS and plan to use any DOS web browser like Arachne,
Lynx or similar. You need something which works with your screen
reader software. Of course you could use Linux with Brltty which
several mainstream
Hi everybody,
as Pat, I am surprised that this thread got so emotional. However,
the topic itself is still very interesting, so I would like to add
mixed comments (ignoring all irritated / communist questions).
My mail is a bit long, but also tries to summarize what I want to
say about this
Hi Scott,
I see that the FreeDOS format command has a /A option to use 4k sector
formatting.
That is not actually 4k sector formatting, as the help explains:
/A Force metadata (reserved/boot sectors and FAT32s together) to be a
multiple of 4k in size. The NTFS
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