Re: [Freedos-user] Installed on top of WinMe: system unusable.

2007-06-12 Thread Grant Edwards
of people who've learned how to use Grub. At least for what I've needed to do, Grub has always been good enough (there were cases when LILO wasn't). For real world products, being better doesn't win. Being the first one who's good enough wins. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow

Re: [Freedos-user] Installed on top of WinMe: system unusable.

2007-06-08 Thread Grant Edwards
and ME come out about the same time? About a year apart, IIRC. I don't think that Windows ME has support for real mode dos. I thought it was basically the same as 98se in that respect, but I might be wrong. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Is this my STOP

Re: [Freedos-user] Installed on top of WinMe: system unusable.

2007-06-08 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-06-08, Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2007-06-08, Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Almost none of the other DOS software I've installed is working (a sh/ksh clone, a bunch of Unix utilities, etc.). Doh! I botched one step of the install process for the shell

Re: [Freedos-user] Brief notes on using KEYB

2007-06-08 Thread Grant Edwards
looked through all of the zip files, but I don't see any KL files. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! If I am elected no one at will ever have to do their visi.comlaundry again

Re: [Freedos-user] Installed on top of WinMe: system unusable.

2007-06-08 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-06-08, Alain M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Grant Edwards escreveu: (now all I have to do is figure out how to fix that damned caps-lock key...). What do you want to do? I want it to be a control key. I'm pretty sure that keyb can do that, but I'm still reading through all of the docs

Re: [Freedos-user] Brief notes on using KEYB

2007-06-08 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-06-08, Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For those of you that may find confusing the multiplicity of files used by KEYB, you can read some instructions in the FAQ item: http://fd-doc.sourceforge.net/faq/cgi-bin/viewfaq.cgi?faq=Using_FreeDOS/249 (more info is to be appended

Re: [Freedos-user] Brief notes on using KEYB

2007-06-08 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-06-08, Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to figure out how to change the caps-lock key into a control key, but I'm baffled by keyb: where do I get these KL files I keep reading about? I've looked through all of the zip files, but I don't see any KL files. Ah

Re: [Freedos-user] Brief notes on using KEYB

2007-06-08 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-06-08, Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2007-06-08, Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to figure out how to change the caps-lock key into a control key, but I'm baffled by keyb: where do I get these KL files I keep reading about? I've looked through all

Re: [Freedos-user] Brief notes on using KEYB

2007-06-08 Thread Grant Edwards
on commands. :/ I did find a TSR that does pretty much what I want, so I'm all set to go. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Eisenhower!! Your at mimeograph machine upsets visi.commy

Re: [Freedos-user] Installed on top of WinMe: system unusable.

2007-06-07 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-06-06, Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried to install FreeDOS 1.0 folling the HOWTO and it appears to have failed rather miserably: 1) The HOWTO says it will create a boot menu that will allow me to dual-boot. It didn't. I can no-longer boot WinMe. I wiped the WinMe

Re: [Freedos-user] Installed on top of WinMe: system unusable.

2007-06-07 Thread Grant Edwards
found. I've found another lightweight emacs clone for DOS that I'm going to try instead. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! HUMAN REPLICAS are at inserted into VATS of visi.com

Re: [Freedos-user] Installed on top of WinMe: system unusable.

2007-06-07 Thread Grant Edwards
automagically share a parition. I'll probably jsut shrink the FreeDOS FAT partition and dual-boot Linux. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! ... My pants just went at on a wild rampage through

Re: [Freedos-user] Installed on top of WinMe: system unusable.

2007-06-07 Thread Grant Edwards
the WinMe partition and installed FreeDOS from scratch. Hopefully you didnt lose your personal data dirs, one thinking about is a nas server for the network and schedule daily backups it. I didn't have any important data in the WinMe partition. -- Grant Edwards grante

Re: [Freedos-user] Installed on top of WinMe: system unusable.

2007-06-07 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-06-08, Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Almost none of the other DOS software I've installed is working (a sh/ksh clone, a bunch of Unix utilities, etc.). Doh! I botched one step of the install process for the shell and utils (the TMP env variable wasn't pointing to a directory

[Freedos-user] Installed on top of WinMe: system unusable.

2007-06-06 Thread Grant Edwards
cd bin ls -l v* Is this typical or have I done something wrong? Have I trashed WinMe? Is FreeDOS more likely to work if I install it in a blank FAT partition? -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! How's it going