[Freedos-user] Dual core Athlon BE-2350 processor

2008-08-27 Thread Graham Young
Since updating to the above processor I have been unable to install Freedos except by using Virtual Box or dosbox on my linux OS. These methods rather limit the speed and size of the applications I wish to use. The installation hangs with drive not ready messages. I tried, therefore, to

Re: [Freedos-user] Dual core Athlon BE-2350 processor

2008-08-27 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! Very nice processor, dual core Athlon BE-2350, only 45 Watts :-) Well FreeDOS runs fine for me on dual core EE with 65 Watts so the 64 bit capabilities are no problem. DOS simply boots in 16 bit mode anyway, and modern DOS software uses 32 bits but not 64 bits, apart from floating point

Re: [Freedos-user] Dual core Athlon BE-2350 processor

2008-08-27 Thread Alain M.
I have installed FreeDOS is many 64 bit processors, never had any problem. IMHO the important part is drive not ready, this is probably a dirver issue. Remember that all DOSes use disks through the bios, so it is the bios responsability to do that... In fact I noteiced that as a mater of fact