Re: [Freedos-user] DOS ideas with fast simple algorithms - was: BSUM BS

From: Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> Hi, Eric, always good to hear from you, On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 4:21 PM, Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de> wrote: > >> BSUM (by Mateusz Viste) : 6.0s (100%) >> CRC32 (by Joe Forster) : 8.5s (70%) > >> MD5 (by Colin Plumb)

Re: [Freedos-user] bsum - compute BSD checksums of your files

From: Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> Hi again, On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 8:36 AM, Mateusz Viste <mate...@nospam.viste.fr> wrote: > On Mon, 10 Apr 2017 00:56:17 -0500, Rugxulo wrote: >> >> It would be interesting to see some benchmark numbers for that (for >> vario

Re: [Freedos-user] bsum - compute BSD checksums of your files

From: Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> Hi, On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 9:52 PM, Mateusz Viste <mate...@nospam.viste.fr> wrote: > On Mon, 10 Apr 2017 17:07:30 -0500, Rugxulo wrote: > >> irrelevant "jz short ..." (when "short" conditional jump is always >&g

[Freedos-user] Brand NEW IBM PC AT + Model M! Unboxing & Setup[LGR] -

From: Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> Before I totally forget ... there was this awesome video on YouTube by LazyGameReviews (about two weeks ago): "Brand NEW IBM PC AT + Model M! Unboxing & Setup [LGR]" https://youtu.be/nLy_jEbuY-U IBM PC AT 5170 (circa 1988), 286 (8 Mhz) w/

Re: [Freedos-user] bsum - compute BSD checksums of your files

From: Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> Hi, I haven't tried this (yet), but nice work! On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 1:16 PM, Mateusz Viste <mate...@nospam.viste.fr> wrote: > > I needed to verify the integrity of a few files after transferring them > to/from my 8086 PC the other da

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS versions of BACKUP & RESTORE program

From: Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> Hi, On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 2:51 PM, J||rg Jenderek <joerg.jen.der...@gmx.net> wrote: > > i am looking for FreeDOS versions BACKUP & RESTORE program, but i do not > found these programs. Not sure, and honestly I've not used such

Re: [Freedos-user] Booting HP & Lenovo

From: Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> Hi, On Sat, Apr 8, 2017 at 2:14 PM, Wayne Dernoncourt <way...@panix.com> wrote: > > I've been trying to get FreeDOS to boot an HP desktop & a Lenovo laptop. > The HP starts to boot the CD-ROM and the last message on the screen is >

Re: [Freedos-user] Without DVD-ROM, USB working... install it from the

From: Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> Hi, On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 4:00 PM, Aleksei Ivan <aleksei@gmail.com> wrote: > > My USB ports are NOT working too. I have only to work with a installation > partition on this netbook. > > I'm sorry for the confusion. But wha

Re: [Freedos-user] boot floppy disk image too big for a disk

From: Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> Hi, On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 7:20 PM, Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de> wrote: > > I disagree about FreeDOS being "not ready yet" or "no advantage to MS DOS". If you already have the original gold standard of DOSes, i.e. MS-D

Re: [Freedos-user] boot floppy disk image too big for a disk

From: Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> Hi, On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 5:15 PM, Dennis Fenton <dwf...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 program

Re: [Freedos-user] boot floppy disk image too big for a disk

From: Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> Hi, On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 10:56 PM, Felix Miata <mrma...@earthlink.net> wrote: > > 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

Re: [Freedos-user] Creating a DOS bootable USB drive

From: Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> Hi again, On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 6:55 PM, Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 5:26 PM, Jerome Shidel <jer...@shidel.net> wrote: >> >> On Linux, Unix, BSD and Mac systems, you can just us

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS and Turbo C 2.01

From: Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> Hi, On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 9:12 PM, Abe Mishler <a...@mishlerlabs.com> wrote: > > Is anybody else running the Turbo C 2.01 IDE under FreeDOS? I appreciate any > help towards this end. I don't normally use IDEs. The very few times I do,

Re: [Freedos-user] Creating a DOS bootable USB drive

From: Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> Hi, On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 12:05 PM, Jerome Shidel <jer...@shidel.net> wrote: > > Some Windows users like using utilities like Rufus ( https://rufus.akeo.ie ) > to create their bootable USB media. But, as a non-Windows user, I do

Re: [Freedos-user] Annual inform

From: Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> Hi, On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 5:35 AM, Rafael Angel Campos Vargas <rofoelcom...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > This year package FreeRay2016 includes eighteen new 3D objects LGPL with > HTML documentation (seventeen are compatible FreeDOS in POVRay

Re: [Freedos-user] Creating a DOS bootable USB drive

From: Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> Hi again, Just to add more to this so I don't (completely) forget everything On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 5:26 PM, Jerome Shidel <jer...@shidel.net> wrote: > > On Linux, Unix, BSD and Mac systems, you can just use the rCyddrCO command. >

Re: [Freedos-user] New FreeDOSers Monthly Reminder

From: Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> Woot, no rules (until this is fixed)! I'll start ;-) On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 9:10 AM, Jim Hall <jh...@freedos.org> wrote: > > Interesting. I thought this was pulling from the www.freedos.org website, > not the old SourceForge website

Re: [Freedos-user] Small install onto 64 meg flash disk?

From: Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> Hi, On Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 11:16 PM, Gregg Eshelman <g_ala...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > I want to install FreeDOS onto a 64 megabyte Apacer IDE flash disk for use > in a Wyse Sx0 thin client. It has to be done outside the box because when >

Re: [Freedos-user] Creating a DOS bootable USB drive

From: Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> Hi, On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 8:10 AM, Wolfram Volpi <wolf_vo...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > I am new to FreeDOS and could use your help. > I am trying to create a DOS bootable USB drive in for a BIOS update. > I have done the following twice, w

Re: [Freedos-user] questions on FreeDOS

From: Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> Hi, On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 9:14 PM, <herminio.hernande...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 2. is there a way to set FreeDOS as a VNC, telnet, or even SSH server? > I would have a full screen session when playing some of the DOS games. First o

Re: [Freedos-user] freedo

From: Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> Hi, On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 3:20 PM, Jerome Shidel <jer...@shidel.net> wrote: > > I do agree that it makes little sense to automatically load SHARE with boot config option 2. > After all, no other boot option starts SHARE. Also, only a coup

Re: [Freedos-user] freedo

From: Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> Hi, On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 11:47 AM, Tom Ehlert <t...@drivesnapshot.de> wrote: > > to reproduce this FIND problem, I tried to setup a new FD1.2 machine. > > what I did: > > download FD12LGC.ISO > > create a new virtua

Re: [Freedos-user] Fw: Fr

From: Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> Hi, On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 6:11 AM, Wolfgang ANdreas Heisele <aheis...@web.de> wrote: > > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 12. Januar 2017 um 20:08 Uhr > > Von: "Wolfgang ANdreas Heisele" <aheis...@web.de> > An: freedos-user@l

Re: [Freedos-user] USB fl

From: Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> Hi, On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 5:57 PM, Ralf Quint <freedos...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 1/2/2017 12:18 PM, dmccunney wrote: >> >>> In particular, here's "Installing Windows 2000 on an SD Card" >>> >>> https://w

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedo

From: Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> Hi, On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 1:08 PM, Wolfgang ANdreas Heisele <aheis...@web.de> wrote: > > the howtos from pre 1.2 do not seem to work for 1.2. How and what configs need to be > changed to get a fixed ip adress in freedos 1.2? You mean i

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedo

From: Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> Hi, On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 1:18 AM, Wolfgang ANdreas Heisele <aheis...@web.de> wrote: > > I have made a small video to show my issue with freedos 1.2 and syslinux. After installing it > freedos does not boot because it is looking for kern

[Freedos-user] QEMU Adven

From: Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> Hi, Although I haven't had time to test it yet, and it's (presumably) based upon older FreeDOS 1.1, there are two DOS-related images from this year's QEMU Advent Calendar: * http://www.qemu-advent-calendar.org/2016/#day-3(FreeGEM) * http://www.qemu-

Re: [Freedos-user] HIMEMX

From: Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> Hi, On Sun, Jan 1, 2017 at 4:43 PM, <userbeit...@abwesend.de> wrote: > > I tried to boot FreeDOS 1.2 on my 2005 PC, specs: > > It is the FD12CD.ISO image, booted from CD-R. I chose "Install" and used > F8 to diagnose

Re: [Freedos-user] USB fl

From: Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> Hi, On Sun, Jan 1, 2017 at 8:52 PM, dmccunney <dennis.mccun...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 1, 2017 at 8:56 PM, Thomas Mueller <mueller6...@twc.com> wrote: > > My old notebook was set to multiboot, with Win2K Pro, a couple of >

Re: [Freedos-user] freedo

From: Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> Hi, On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 5:46 PM, Dimitris Zilaskos <dimitr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thank you for the advice. I tried FDIMPLES, seem to show everything > installed, but for some reason p7zip is missing from its list. I don't really reco

Re: [Freedos-user] How to

From: Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> Hi, On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 8:31 AM, Kai Schaetzl <mailli...@conactive.com> wrote: > > But I have the same problem with it. Adding "keyb gr" to autoexec.bat does > not run it. It seems autoexec.bat isn't executed at all. Shouldn't

Re: [Freedos-user] How to

From: Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> Hi, On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 8:31 AM, Kai Schaetzl <mailli...@conactive.com> wrote: > > VER does not report a DOS version, only a > FreeCOM-0.84 version. I think I'm running 1.1, but only the core. There is no bin > directory. Try "v

Re: [Freedos-user] OT: US

From: Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> --===2494690621660655063== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=f403045e2abee98feb05450f1134 --f403045e2abee98feb05450f1134 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Hi, On Jan 1, 2017 3:16 PM, <userbeit...@abwesend.de> wrote:

Re: [Freedos-user] Fw: Ko

From: Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> Hi, Although this may not be what you meant, just to state the obvious (so as not to leave you hanging) On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 7:55 AM, Wolfgang ANdreas Heisele <aheis...@web.de> wrote: > > All I need to know now is why freedos is no lon

Re: [Freedos-user] How to

From: Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> Hi, On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 9:00 AM, Tom Ehlert <t...@drivesnapshot.de> wrote: > >>> The KEYB layouts can be found here: >>> >>> http://www.freedos.org/software/?prog=kpdos > >> That's the point where the circl

Re: [Freedos-user] Preloa

From: Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> --===1947467669150845460== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=f403045e2abe5e83b50544e3b0fb --f403045e2abe5e83b50544e3b0fb Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Hi, On Dec 30, 2016 10:46 AM, <userbeit...@abwesend.de> wrote:

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedo

From: Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> Hi, On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 7:00 AM, Wolfgang ANdreas Heisele <aheis...@web.de> wrote: > > I am new to freedos and got to this mailing list through this youtube video: > > Where I wrote the follwing question: > > Nice video. I

Re: [Freedos-user] Simple

From: Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> Hi, On Sun, Dec 25, 2016 at 3:57 PM, William Dudley <wfdud...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Is there a simple guide for networking FreeDOS 1.2 in a VirtualBox VM ? > > 1.2 is too new for there to be anything in the mailing list archives on

Re: [Freedos-user] Instal

From: Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> Hi, On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 12:23 AM, Mingcong Bai <jeffbaich...@gmail.com> wrote: > oL? 2016o||12uLe17uuN 21:21, Rugxulo oaOoUo: >> >> On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 2:55 PM, Mingcong Bai <jeffbaich...@gmail.com> wrote: >

Re: [Freedos-user] Instal

From: Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> Hi, On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 2:55 PM, Mingcong Bai <jeffbaich...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I happen to have a ThinkPad 340 kicking around: > > - Intel 486SLC2 25/50MHz > - 12MB RAM > - 3.5 inch 1.44MB Floppy Drive > > But FreeDOS

Re: [Freedos-user] USB dr

From: Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> Hi, On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 6:28 AM, Sz+agy|-nyi G|ibor <szg0...@freemail.hu> wrote: > Hi FreeDOS users! > > I would like to use pendrive and USB floppy drive under freedos. Heck, let me just save you the trouble and paraphrase the local

Re: [Freedos-user] M2WAT

From: Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> Hi, On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 5:01 PM, Ulrich Hansen <my.gr...@mailbox.org> wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 7:33 PM, Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Two minor nitpicks: > > 1). The .COM isn't even UPX'd. Bloat! ;-

Re: [Freedos-user] Urgent

From: Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> Hi, On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 12:41 PM, Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de> wrote: > > have you checked whether there could be a problem with the > settings of your host operating system His details say kernel 2042, so maybe it's a regression

Re: [Freedos-user] Turkis

From: Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> --===3098472726709738175== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=94eb2c11c30484e074053ddaaab0 --94eb2c11c30484e074053ddaaab0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Saluton, On Oct 1, 2016 5

Re: [Freedos-user] UIDE.S

From: Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> Hi, On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 5:53 AM, Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de> wrote: > > Note that for live CD, you can also often use the tiny > ELTORITO driver because after booting from CD, you get > temporary BIOS support for easy CD acce

Re: [Freedos-user] Urgent

From: Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> Hi, On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 12:41 PM, Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de> wrote: > > Unfortunately Turkish is not among the layouts built into the smaller MKEYB driver > > PS: You may also want to use DISPLAY and MODE to load a > font

Re: [Freedos-user] intel

From: Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> Hi, On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 5:47 AM, Ulrich Hansen <my.gr...@mailbox.org> wrote: > > I found that the intel DOS packet driver for the PRO/1000 network card isnrCOt > in the CRYNWR package. > > As it is Open Source since

Re: [Freedos-user] M2WAT

From: Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> Hi, On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 5:01 PM, Ulrich Hansen <my.gr...@mailbox.org> wrote: > > Am 26.08.2016 um 08:28 schrieb Louis Santillan <lpsan...@gmail.com>: > > Made my own dog food: > > <https://github.com/lpsantil/m2wat.ba

Re: [Freedos-user] M2WAT

From: Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> Hi, On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 5:43 PM, Ulrich Hansen <my.gr...@mailbox.org> wrote: > > What do you think of M2WAT? I use it quite often. It is Open Source, written > by cordata, a FreeDOS user, in a post to this list. I vaguely remember whe

Re: [Freedos-user] M2WAT

From: Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> --===8361226103491232573== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=94eb2c12356e968e12053b031082 --94eb2c12356e968e12053b031082 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Hi, On Aug 26, 2016 7:35 PM, "Louis Santillan" <lpsan.

Re: [Freedos-user] dma cr

From: Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> Hi, On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 12:28 PM, Tom Ehlert <t...@drivesnapshot.de> wrote: >> >> I keep getting the error dma crosses 64k boundary when using tools >> like rawrite3 or hard drive manufacturers tools floppy creation >> s

Re: [Freedos-user] Without DVD-ROM, USB working... install it from the HD?

Hi, Coming back to this, this might not be exactly the solution to this one specific problem, but I still feel like I should mention it somewhere! On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 5:18 PM, Jerome Shidel wrote: > > On Mar 25, 2017, at 5:00 PM, Aleksei Ivan

Re: [Freedos-user] Using USB Mass Storage on FreeDOS

Hi, On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 10:02 AM, Ercan Ersoy wrote: > > I tried using my USB mass storage on Virtualbox 5.0.36. You mean "pass-through" or whatever, using native hardware under VM? Doubt VBox supports that for DOS guests (since they don't have any guest additions

Re: [Freedos-user] WIFI on DOS (was: bsum - compute BSD checksums of your files)

Hi, On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 3:58 PM, dmccunney wrote: > On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 9:46 AM, Dale E Sterner wrote: > >> I installed win 7 on a laptop to see what it could do but not to use it. >> I installed software that I bought to see what it

Re: [Freedos-user] reminder

Hi, On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 11:51 AM, Bret Johnson wrote: > > What you're wanting is pretty simple, so a full-blown calendar program is > definitely overkill. > I think I've seen references to programs like what you want to do before, but > I don't use any > of them myself

Re: [Freedos-user] bsum - compute BSD checksums of your files

Hi, On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 2:03 AM, Mateusz Viste <mate...@nospam.viste.fr> wrote: > On Tue, 11 Apr 2017 22:24:56 -0500, Rugxulo wrote: > >> What disassembler are you using here? I erroneously thought it was NDISASM. > > I don't use ndisasm for a very trivial reason -

Re: [Freedos-user] bsum - compute BSD checksums of your files

Hi, On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 7:06 AM, Mateusz Viste wrote: > > That's nice of you to provide the explanation. I didn't read it > completely (too lazy), nor understand it fully (too stupid), but the > other clueless guy might find it interesting that he was only half

[Freedos-user] Brand NEW IBM PC AT + Model M! Unboxing & Setup [LGR] - YouTube

Before I totally forget ... there was this awesome video on YouTube by LazyGameReviews (about two weeks ago): "Brand NEW IBM PC AT + Model M! Unboxing & Setup [LGR]" https://youtu.be/nLy_jEbuY-U IBM PC AT 5170 (circa 1988), 286 (8 Mhz) w/ 512 kb RAM, EGA, 30 MB HDD, 1.2 MB floppy drive, PC-DOS

Re: [Freedos-user] bsum - compute BSD checksums of your files

Hi, On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 1:26 AM, Mateusz Viste <mate...@nospam.viste.fr> wrote: > On Mon, 10 Apr 2017 23:30:35 -0500, Rugxulo wrote: >> >> Unless I'm mistaken, conditional jumps on 8086 don't go beyond -128 .. >> 127 (signed) byte range. Hence the billions of

Re: [Freedos-user] reminder

Hi, On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 1:33 AM, Rinaldo Guelpa wrote: > > I am looking for a simple reminder program in dos, can you please help. You mean like this? " TaskTimer: A programmer's/hacker's/hobbyist's time management "egg timer" TaskTimer is a program that helps

Re: [Freedos-user] bsum - compute BSD checksums of your files

Hi, On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 9:52 PM, Mateusz Viste <mate...@nospam.viste.fr> wrote: > On Mon, 10 Apr 2017 17:07:30 -0500, Rugxulo wrote: > >> irrelevant "jz short ..." (when "short" conditional jump is always >> mandatory for "cpu 8086"). >

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS ideas with fast simple algorithms - was: BSUM BSD checksum

Hi, Eric, always good to hear from you, On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 4:21 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > >> 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%) > >

Re: [Freedos-user] bsum - compute BSD checksums of your files

Hi again, On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 8:36 AM, Mateusz Viste <mate...@nospam.viste.fr> wrote: > On Mon, 10 Apr 2017 00:56:17 -0500, Rugxulo wrote: >> >> It would be interesting to see some benchmark numbers for that (for >> various specific tools, 8086, 386, etc). > &

Re: [Freedos-user] bsum - compute BSD checksums of your files

Hi, I haven't tried this (yet), but nice work! On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 1:16 PM, Mateusz Viste wrote: > > I needed to verify the integrity of a few files after transferring them > to/from my 8086 PC the other day. The obvious method for such task is > computing a checksum

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS versions of BACKUP & RESTORE program

Hi, On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 2:51 PM, Jörg Jenderek wrote: > > i am looking for FreeDOS versions BACKUP & RESTORE program, but i do not > found these programs. Not sure, and honestly I've not used such utils at all (or at least not in many years and don't remember). I

Re: [Freedos-user] Booting HP & Lenovo

Hi, On Sat, Apr 8, 2017 at 2:14 PM, Wayne Dernoncourt wrote: > > I've been trying to get FreeDOS to boot an HP desktop & a Lenovo laptop. > The HP starts to boot the CD-ROM and the last message on the screen is > Init disk and some periods. How can I figure out what is wrong.

Re: [Freedos-user] boot floppy disk image too big for a disk

Hi, Eric, This reply may be pointless, but I'm sure you understand where I'm coming from. In no way am I pretending that MS-DOS is technically superior or preferred. The weakest claim is only that it is "probably" more compatible (which is unavoidable since it's the original). It is dead and

Re: [Freedos-user] Without DVD-ROM, USB working... install it from the HD?

Hi, On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 4:00 PM, Aleksei Ivan wrote: > > My USB ports are NOT working too. I have only to work with a installation > partition on this netbook. > > I'm sorry for the confusion. But what other OS (if any) are you running on that machine? What file

Re: [Freedos-user] boot floppy disk image too big for a disk

Hi, On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 7:20 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > > I disagree about FreeDOS being "not ready yet" or "no advantage to MS DOS". 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

Re: [Freedos-user] boot floppy disk image too big for a disk

Hi, On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 5:15 PM, Dennis Fenton wrote: > > 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

Re: [Freedos-user] boot floppy disk image too big for a disk

Hi, On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 10:56 PM, Felix Miata wrote: > > 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

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS and Turbo C 2.01

Hi, On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 9:12 PM, Abe Mishler wrote: > > Is anybody else running the Turbo C 2.01 IDE under FreeDOS? I appreciate any > help towards this end. I don't normally use IDEs. The very few times I do, I use TC++101 instead (which has less bugs and is

Re: [Freedos-user] Creating a DOS bootable USB drive

Hi, On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 12:05 PM, Jerome Shidel wrote: > > Some Windows users like using utilities like Rufus ( https://rufus.akeo.ie ) > to create their bootable USB media. But, as a non-Windows user, I don’t know > much about it. As a lowly end user, I haven't deployed

Re: [Freedos-user] Creating a DOS bootable USB drive

Hi again, On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 6:55 PM, Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 5:26 PM, Jerome Shidel <jer...@shidel.net> wrote: >> >> On Linux, Unix, BSD and Mac systems, you can just use the ‘dd’ command. > > I'm sure there is a

Re: [Freedos-user] Creating a DOS bootable USB drive

Hi again, Just to add more to this so I don't (completely) forget everything On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 5:26 PM, Jerome Shidel wrote: > > On Linux, Unix, BSD and Mac systems, you can just use the ‘dd’ command. > > For example, your usb flash drive is known to the system as

Re: [Freedos-user] Annual inform

Hi, On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 5:35 AM, Rafael Angel Campos Vargas wrote: > > This year package FreeRay2016 includes eighteen new 3D objects LGPL with > HTML documentation (seventeen are compatible FreeDOS in POVRay 3.1.). > > Would you like to incorporate this package in

Re: [Freedos-user] New FreeDOSers Monthly Reminder

Woot, no rules (until this is fixed)! I'll start ;-) On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 9:10 AM, Jim Hall wrote: > > Interesting. I thought this was pulling from the www.freedos.org website, > not the old SourceForge website. > > I'll email John. The correct location should be >

Re: [Freedos-user] questions on FreeDOS

Hi, On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 9:14 PM, wrote: > > 2. is there a way to set FreeDOS as a VNC, telnet, or even SSH server? > I would have a full screen session when playing some of the DOS games. First of all, I misread your question. But, just for clarity, (IIRC)

Re: [Freedos-user] freedo

Hi, On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 3:20 PM, Jerome Shidel wrote: > > I do agree that it makes little sense to automatically load SHARE with boot > config option 2. > After all, no other boot option starts SHARE. Also, only a couple situations > require its use. > > Either of these

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos 1.2 LSM files without CR

Hi, On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 6:48 PM, Jerome Shidel wrote: > > It is even worse than you suggested for Turbo Pascal compiled programs for LF > only files. > The entire built-in text I/O system can't go anywhere near such files. If it > does, you end up > with an infinite

[Freedos-user] DOS is a low-end Linux? (was: freedos 1.2 LSM files without CR)

Hi, (changing the subject a bit) On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 3:35 PM, Ralf Quint <freedos...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 1/19/2017 1:16 PM, Eric Auer wrote: >> Rugxulo, Tom, >> >> DOS files should always use DOS linebreaks, >> even if some DOS apps can deal with Unix

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos 1.2 LSM files without CR

Hi, On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 5:51 PM, dmccunney wrote: > > At one point, I had to insert a step in a *nix script that generated > and emailed nightly reports. The recipients would get them as > attachments on Windows machines, and double click them to read them, >

Re: [Freedos-user] freedo

Originally to: ALL Hi, On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 11:47 AM, Tom Ehlert wrote: > > to reproduce this FIND problem, I tried to setup a new FD1.2 machine. > > what I did: > > download FD12LGC.ISO > > create a new virtual box machine with 512 MB disk > use FD12LGC.ISO to boot

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos 1.2 install

Hi, On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 4:00 PM, Jim Hall wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 11:47 AM, Tom Ehlert wrote: >>> >>> to reproduce this FIND problem, I tried to setup a new FD1.2 machine. >>> >>> what I did: >>> >>> download FD12LGC.ISO >>> >>> create a

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos 1.2 install

Hi, On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 11:47 AM, Tom Ehlert wrote: > > to reproduce this FIND problem, I tried to setup a new FD1.2 machine. > > what I did: > > download FD12LGC.ISO > > create a new virtual box machine with 512 MB disk > use FD12LGC.ISO to boot the machine. > boot

Re: [Freedos-user] after find, Error reading from drive A: DOS area: general failure.

Hi, On Jan 16, 2017 11:24 AM, "Eric Auer" wrote: > > > 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: >

Re: [Freedos-user] Fw: Freedos 1.2 Network with fix ip

Hi, On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 6:11 AM, Wolfgang ANdreas Heisele wrote: > > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 12. Januar 2017 um 20:08 Uhr > > Von: "Wolfgang ANdreas Heisele" > An: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > Betreff: Freedos 1.2 Network with fix ip > > the howtos

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.2 Network with fix ip

Hi, On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 1:08 PM, Wolfgang ANdreas Heisele wrote: > > the howtos from pre 1.2 do not seem to work for 1.2. How and what configs > need to be > changed to get a fixed ip adress in freedos 1.2? You mean in mTCP? Read the docs. (Sorry if that's not helpful

Re: [Freedos-user] USB floppy cannot read medium on modern PC and Linux.

Hi, On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 5:57 PM, Ralf Quint wrote: > On 1/2/2017 12:18 PM, dmccunney wrote: >> >>> In particular, here's "Installing Windows 2000 on an SD Card" >>> >>> https://www.youtube.com/user/Druaga1/ >> >> I have Win10 and Ubuntu installed on an SSD on my desktop,

[Freedos-user] QEMU Advent Calendar 2016

Hi, Although I haven't had time to test it yet, and it's (presumably) based upon older FreeDOS 1.1, there are two DOS-related images from this year's QEMU Advent Calendar: * http://www.qemu-advent-calendar.org/2016/#day-3(FreeGEM) * http://www.qemu-advent-calendar.org/2016/#day-10 (Epic

Re: [Freedos-user] HIMEMX.EXE - Invalid Opcode

Hi, On Sun, Jan 1, 2017 at 4:43 PM, wrote: > > I tried to boot FreeDOS 1.2 on my 2005 PC, specs: > > It is the FD12CD.ISO image, booted from CD-R. I chose "Install" and used > F8 to diagnose the problem. > > DEVICE=\FDSetup\BIN\HIMEMX.EXE stalls the system. It

Re: [Freedos-user] OT: USB floppy cannot read medium on modern PC and Linux.

Hi, On Jan 1, 2017 3:16 PM, wrote: > > I don't really expect help here. It is just a message to get the > understand for why I cannot load FreeDOS onto a floppy at > this time. This may not be quite what you meant, but ... AFAIK, many modern OSes can't use USB floppies

Re: [Freedos-user] Fw: Kolibri OS boot from Freedos 1.2 with syslinux

Hi, Although this may not be what you meant, just to state the obvious (so as not to leave you hanging) On Sat, Dec 31, 2016 at 7:55 AM, Wolfgang ANdreas Heisele wrote: > > All I need to know now is why freedos is no longer booting when I use the > c:\fdos\bin\syslinux -d

Re: [Freedos-user] Preload and start installer from installation target?

Hi, On Dec 30, 2016 10:46 AM, wrote: > > I cannot easily create a 3.5 inch boot floppy to use it in > the 486-PC. Is the drive itself broken or you don't have a working floppy disk or ...? --

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.2 and kolibri os dualboot

Hi, On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 7:00 AM, Wolfgang ANdreas Heisele wrote: > > I am new to freedos and got to this mailing list through this youtube video: > > Where I wrote the follwing question: > > Nice video. I got that far, but I was really looking into whether one could > use

Re: [Freedos-user] Installation on a ThinkPad 340?

Hi, On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 12:23 AM, Mingcong Bai <jeffbaich...@gmail.com> wrote: > 在 2016年12月17日 21:21, Rugxulo 写道: >> >> On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 2:55 PM, Mingcong Bai <jeffbaich...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> But FreeDOS seemed to have CD insta

Re: [Freedos-user] Installation on a ThinkPad 340?

Hi, On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 3:04 PM, Mingcong Bai wrote: > > Oh also... If I have a Panasonic PCMCIA CD-ROM Drive, would I be able to > use it with FreeDOS (then I suppose that I could burn the ISO image and > boot it from the boot floppy...? If the driver works...). I'm

Re: [Freedos-user] Installation on a ThinkPad 340?

Hi, On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 2:55 PM, Mingcong Bai wrote: > > I happen to have a ThinkPad 340 kicking around: > > - Intel 486SLC2 25/50MHz > - 12MB RAM > - 3.5 inch 1.44MB Floppy Drive > > But FreeDOS seemed to have CD installation only... Is it possible to > install

Re: [Freedos-user] USB drives under Freedos

Hi, On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 6:28 AM, Szőgyényi Gábor wrote: > Hi FreeDOS users! > > I would like to use pendrive and USB floppy drive under freedos. Heck, let me just save you the trouble and paraphrase the local cynic: "It won't work. Just use Linux." (He's 90% right, USB

Re: [Freedos-user] M2WAT

Hi, On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 5:01 PM, Ulrich Hansen <my.gr...@mailbox.org> wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 7:33 PM, Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Two minor nitpicks: > > 1). The .COM isn't even UPX'd. Bloat! ;-) > 2). The source is named "W2WAT

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