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
For freemacs/emacs, set the EMACS environment variable to point to
where emacs .ed files are installed. For example:
SET EMACS=C:\FDOS\EMACS
It's possible this didn't get set for you.
Alternatively, try doing a CD into the directory where emacs is
installed, and see if it runs (it should).
On 2007-06-07, Jim Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For freemacs/emacs, set the EMACS environment variable to point to
where emacs .ed files are installed.
There aren't any .ed files -- not that I can find, anyway.
Once I get some real file utilities installed (e.g. a proper
find) maybe I'll be
On 2007-06-07, someone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
BTW: Hard drives are cheap these days, consider installing
Windows 9x and Freedos on separate physical hard drives
and using a drive tray to switch back and forth at least
during the setup stage.
It's a laptop, and the hard
3) Two crashes in the first two minutes:
No crashes since the re-install.
My conclusion is that FreeDOS can't easily share a parition
with Win9x.
Real mode msdos was discontinued in WinMe/NT/2k/XP. The problm I had when
installing freedos on an existing win partition is that it had tendancy to
Hi someone, Grant,
there is no need to use separate partitions or even
harddisks for Win9x/Me and FreeDOS. The trick is that
both use FAT and both use the same drive letters, but
Win9x/Me and FreeDOS use different file names for
kernel and config. FreeDOS looks at fdconfig dot sys
first, and
On 2007-06-07, chris evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
3) Two crashes in the first two minutes:
No crashes since the re-install. My conclusion is that FreeDOS
can't easily share a parition with Win9x.
Real mode msdos was discontinued in WinMe/NT/2k/XP. The problm
I had when installing freedos
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
Raul Dantas da Silva Filho
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