[Freedos-user] Update - Using HDMI monitor and USB keyboard/mouse on FreeDOS

2024-03-08 Thread Bill Gee via Freedos-user
Another update for all who are interested - I already commented about the USB to PS/2 adapter built on a Raspberry Pi Pico. That works very well. A few weeks ago I received an AGP display adapter bought from eBay. It is based around the nVidia FX5200 chipset, and has all of VGA, DVI and S-

Re: [Freedos-user] Update wiki info on installing ftp on a virualbox guest?

2023-04-07 Thread Volkert via Freedos-user
If your goal is to be able to share files between a FreeDOS guest VM and a host system, you could use VBSF.EXE as an alternative. It's a guest driver for DOS that allows you to mount a VirtualBox shared folder without having to set up a TCP/IP stack and an FTP server. I've only briefly used it so

Re: [Freedos-user] Update wiki info on installing ftp on a virualbox guest?

2023-03-16 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 12:06 AM wrote: > > > On Mar 15, 2023, at 10:22 PM, Michael Brutman wrote: > > [..] > > The only questionable thing I noticed was somebody converted the user > > documentation to a 293KB text file. That strips the formatting, diagrams > > and screen shots that I ha

Re: [Freedos-user] Update wiki info on installing ftp on a virualbox guest?

2023-03-15 Thread Jennifer Brice via Freedos-user
I've got it up and running using the pdf manual on the mtcp homepage. https://www.brutman.com/mTCP/download/mTCP_2022-07-01.pdf Thanks Mike I would still like to see the wiki updated On Wed, 15 Mar 2023 17:33:14 -0500 Jennifer Brice wrote --- > I am trying to install ftp on a virtual

Re: [Freedos-user] Update wiki info on installing ftp on a virualbox guest?

2023-03-15 Thread jerome
Hi, > On Mar 15, 2023, at 10:22 PM, Michael Brutman wrote: > [..] > The only questionable thing I noticed was somebody converted the user > documentation to a 293KB text file. That strips the formatting, diagrams and > screen shots that I have in the PDF. Can we not do that in the future? >

Re: [Freedos-user] Update wiki info on installing ftp on a virualbox guest?

2023-03-15 Thread Michael Brutman
Jennifer replied offline and responded that she was installing FreeDOS 1.3 using the livecd. I tried it for myself and I installed the full FreeDOS without sources to a new virtual machine. Until the wiki gets fixed look in C:\FREEDOS for the mTCP configuration file. The mTCP sample config file

Re: [Freedos-user] Update wiki info on installing ftp on a virualbox guest?

2023-03-15 Thread Michael Brutman
What version of FreeDOS are you installing? If things are really borked then keep in mind that mTCP is a standalone project and you can get all the original files at its website. See http://www.brutman.com/mTCP/mTCP.html for the downloads and PDF documentation. Mike On Wed, Mar 15, 2023, 15:5

[Freedos-user] Update wiki info on installing ftp on a virualbox guest?

2023-03-15 Thread Jennifer Brice via Freedos-user
I am trying to install ftp on a virtualbox guest and the wiki seems out of date. http://wiki.freedos.org/wiki/index.php/VirtualBox_-_Chapter_7 There is no fdos directory and also no sample.cfg in docs. I found an mtcp.cfg in the freedos directory and found samples cfg in c:\net\mtcp\sample.cfg

Re: [Freedos-user] Update FreeDOS Instalation

2022-02-11 Thread Jim Hall
On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 3:20 PM [GlassNerves] via Freedos-user wrote: > > > Is there a way to update old versions of FreeDOS to the new ones with not > losing data? > I have installed version 1.3 RC5 and I'm afraid I'll need to reinstall > everything when the final release comes. > The advanced

[Freedos-user] Update FreeDOS Instalation

2022-02-11 Thread [GlassNerves] via Freedos-user
Is there a way to update old versions of FreeDOS to the new ones with not losing data? I have installed version 1.3 RC5 and I'm afraid I'll need to reinstall everything when the final release comes. Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com/) Secure Email.

Re: [Freedos-user] Update

2012-03-14 Thread Zbigniew
2012/3/15, Ralf A. Quint : > Do you use 4DOS with any special parameters on startup? SHELLHIGH=c:\fdos\bin\4dos.com c:\fdos\bin /E:1024 /P=C:\autoexec.bat That's my fdconfig line. -- regards, Zbigniew -- This SF email

Re: [Freedos-user] Update

2012-03-14 Thread Ralf A. Quint
At 04:00 PM 3/14/2012, Zbigniew wrote: >2012/3/13, Ralf A. Quint : > > > So far, this rather looks like a problem with 4DOS, not with JEMM as > > I initially suspected... :? > >Yes, you were right: I'm terribly sorry, but my former reports were >somewhat misleading. Just finished another couple of

Re: [Freedos-user] Update

2012-03-14 Thread Zbigniew
2012/3/13, Ralf A. Quint : > So far, this rather looks like a problem with 4DOS, not with JEMM as > I initially suspected... :? Yes, you were right: I'm terribly sorry, but my former reports were somewhat misleading. Just finished another couple of tests, and indeed: it's 4DOS who is the culprit.

Re: [Freedos-user] Update

2012-03-13 Thread Zbigniew
2012/3/13, Ralf A. Quint : > So far, this rather looks like a problem with 4DOS, not with JEMM as > I initially suspected... :? Under FreeDOS problems were with JEMM or 4DOS - either of both was enough to cause mentioned slow-down (or both together, of course). -- regards, Zbigniew

Re: [Freedos-user] Update

2012-03-13 Thread Ralf A. Quint
At 12:35 PM 3/13/2012, Zbigniew wrote: >After Eric's suggestion I made additional tests: still on original >MS-DOS 6.22; I used JEMMEX this time: > >1. JEMMEX + 4DOS means problem, but... >2. ...JEMMEX + command.com didn't make any problem! Neither to the >game, nor to DX-Forth. > >I'm always using

[Freedos-user] Update

2012-03-13 Thread Zbigniew
After Eric's suggestion I made additional tests: still on original MS-DOS 6.22; I used JEMMEX this time: 1. JEMMEX + 4DOS means problem, but... 2. ...JEMMEX + command.com didn't make any problem! Neither to the game, nor to DX-Forth. I'm always using "X=TEST I=TEST" parameters. The test under Fr

Re: [Freedos-user] Update kernel

2011-12-17 Thread Richard H Lee
On 17/12/11 20:57, Rugxulo wrote: > You mean copied the files from .iso to a native install (self-booting) > on USB? Or do you mean it uses something like UNetBootIn? > > http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ I created a bootable usb stick using syslinux and then copied the files over changing iso*

Re: [Freedos-user] Update kernel

2011-12-17 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Richard H Lee wrote: > > I copied the freedos iso to usb. You mean copied the files from .iso to a native install (self-booting) on USB? Or do you mean it uses something like UNetBootIn? http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ > I have an invalid opcode error.

[Freedos-user] Update kernel

2011-12-17 Thread Richard H Lee
Hi, I copied the freedos iso to usb. I have an invalid opcode error. II have read that I need to update the kernel. The thing is is that I don't know where to copy the new kernel.sys as I can't find the existing kernel on the usb stick. Richard --

Re: [Freedos-user] Update,and info,problems

2009-11-14 Thread Garrison Ricketson
Hello, Eric, and al readers,...  Just a few days ago, I posted in the new letter...but was really vague, and alot has changed, Since I have no access for internet, I am useing a internet cafe..and never have much chance,  I down loaded and installed the fdfullcd.iso.., and as I mentioned allthoug

Re: [Freedos-user] update: dos extenders=HX.

2009-07-07 Thread Christian Masloch
> Decided to try the minimum functionality of HX; the 'stubit.exe' failed, > complaining that the djgpp executable being > processed was not PE; I believe that a dj exe always has an 'MZ' stub, > and I > will verify that. Does this mean that > stubit only *checks* the validity of a PE stub and do

[Freedos-user] update: dos extenders=HX.

2009-07-07 Thread kurt godel
Decided to try the minimum functionality of HX; the 'stubit.exe' failed, complaining that the djgpp executable being processed was not PE; I believe that a dj exe always has an 'MZ' stub, and I will verify that. Does this mean that stubit only *checks* the validity of a PE stub and does not make th

[Freedos-user] Update on dos extenders viz djgpp.

2009-07-05 Thread kurt godel
Have just tried WDOSX, which is now royalty free, even for commercial applications; this refers to exe's 'extended' by wdos. The wdos actually prepends a stub to the exe,as well as an extender exe, so that the result is standalone with no outside files. As stated, any exe that you extend in this wa

Re: [Freedos-user] Update: CHKDSK 0.9 problems

2006-08-25 Thread Blair Campbell
Good thing it's not 1.0's default kernel. On 8/25/06, Diego Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > Seems that it has problems only with the 2.0.37w-UNSTABLE kernel, it > works fine with 2.0.36 cvs (version Sep 09 2005 compiled Jul 26 2006). > A kernel problem ?? > > > >

[Freedos-user] Update: CHKDSK 0.9 problems

2006-08-25 Thread Diego Rodriguez
Hi! Seems that it has problems only with the 2.0.37w-UNSTABLE kernel, it works fine with 2.0.36 cvs (version Sep 09 2005 compiled Jul 26 2006). A kernel problem ?? __ LLama Gratis a cualquier PC del Mundo. Llamadas a fijos y móviles

Re: [Freedos-user] Update: EDIT 0.7b TO-DO list (from Fox), comments?

2005-04-30 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Салям! 30-Апр-2005 07:27 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Auer) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: >> - there should be alt-number as shortcut for alt-w number, to select one >> of the first 9 editbox windows. EA> I think Alt-W Number is acceptably short. Adding Alt-Number could cause EA> coun

[Freedos-user] Update: EDIT 0.7b TO-DO list (from Fox), comments?

2005-04-29 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, some new answer: > - all windows are inside the outmost window, and the top / side > borders of that waste space. if you resize it, you see the DOS screen. I noticed that you CAN remove the border and the title! There are options for that in the display option menu. If you remove the border