Re: [Freedos-user] Reminder about the FreeDOS YouTube channel

2021-06-15 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Paul, > Have you tried to run the installer under DOSEMU2? With which type of drive configuration? I normally use a Linux directory as C: drive, so you can neither format nor partition that. Interestingly, WHICHFAT believes such drives are FAT16, but CHKDSK and DOSFSCK will tell you that they

Re: [Freedos-user] Reminder about the FreeDOS YouTube channel

2021-06-15 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user
Le mar., 15 juin 2021 07:36:06 -0400 Eric Auer écrit >Hi Jerome, ... >How about Bochs? DOSEMU2? DOSBOX? Why would >you assume that people with VM have different >needs than people with plain hardware? Have you tried to run the installer under DOSEMU2? When

Re: [Freedos-user] Reminder about the FreeDOS YouTube channel

2021-06-15 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Jerome, thanks for reading the flood of mails :-) > The warm boot is an alias in the FDAUTO. Basically, it is a line > inherited from FreeDOS 1.1 that I’ve never bothered to change. I think coldboot would be more reliable. > What config bugs??? > > I am aware of no bugs in the current

Re: [Freedos-user] Reminder about the FreeDOS YouTube channel

2021-06-14 Thread Jerome Shidel
Wow there is a lot unpack here on several different posts…. > I think you're referring to time index 2:46 in the video, after > partitioning, when the system reboots and you can briefly see the > "warmboot" message. > > The difference is: (from "FDAPM /?") >> COLDboot / WARMboot - do a reboot

Re: [Freedos-user] Reminder about the FreeDOS YouTube channel

2021-06-14 Thread Jim Hall
Similar to Tom's comment elsewhere, your email is longer than my free time to read it. So I'll pick only a few things to reply to, and let others comment on the rest. :-) On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 7:04 PM Eric Auer wrote: > Hi! > > > (Eric replied to me off-list about the "Installing FreeDOS 1.3

Re: [Freedos-user] Reminder about the FreeDOS YouTube channel

2021-06-14 Thread Jim Hall
On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 6:55 PM Karen Lewellen wrote: > > Just curious, > By what method in DOS itself could someone reach your YouTube channel > and get any of this content? > I do recall a DOS edition of mplayer, but YouTube itself has changed a > great deal since I found that option. I

Re: [Freedos-user] Reminder about the FreeDOS YouTube channel

2021-06-14 Thread Eric Auer
Hi again, >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76V0EpXY6Eo >> "less" also can be used without pipelines, >> as you know, as in "less fdauto.bat" Compared to "type fdauto.bat | less" you avoid the temp file needed by pipelines in DOS. While you make an important point by explaining how pipes

Re: [Freedos-user] Reminder about the FreeDOS YouTube channel

2021-06-14 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! > (Eric replied to me off-list about the "Installing FreeDOS 1.3 RC4" > video, but this is probably interesting to other FreeDOS users, so I'm > replying to the list) Okay for me. Instead of making small remarks off-list, I can do a more verbose review here. I hope nobody gets bored :-) >

Re: [Freedos-user] Reminder about the FreeDOS YouTube channel

2021-06-14 Thread Karen Lewellen
Just curious, By what method in DOS itself could someone reach your YouTube channel and get any of this content? I do recall a DOS edition of mplayer, but YouTube itself has changed a great deal since I found that option. Second, How inclusive are these videos? Automatic closed captioning

Re: [Freedos-user] Reminder about the FreeDOS YouTube channel

2021-06-14 Thread Jim Hall
(Eric replied off-list about the "FreeDOS 1.3 RC4" video, but this is generally interesting to others, so I am replying to the list instead) > On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 4:40 PM Jim Hall wrote: > >> > >> Did you know FreeDOS has a YouTube channel? I post a variety of videos > >> there, about using

Re: [Freedos-user] Reminder about the FreeDOS YouTube channel

2021-06-14 Thread Jim Hall
(Eric replied to me off-list about the "Installing FreeDOS 1.3 RC4" video, but this is probably interesting to other FreeDOS users, so I'm replying to the list) On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 4:40 PM Jim Hall wrote: >> >> Did you know FreeDOS has a YouTube channel? I post a variety of videos >> there,

[Freedos-user] Reminder about the FreeDOS YouTube channel

2021-06-14 Thread Jim Hall
Did you know FreeDOS has a YouTube channel? I post a variety of videos there, about using FreeDOS, programming on DOS, running DOS applications, and playing DOS games. (https://www.youtube.com/freedosproject) Folks have asked if I can share highlights from some of the YouTube videos, and I try to