[Freedos-user] boot disk

2004-05-17 Thread G Simpson
Hello,   I am trying to set-up a "lite" version of a FreeDos bootable floppy, and I am a bit confused.   What I need is to boot to FreeDos with the Himem and EMM386 drivers loaded, but my attempts fail and I can't seem to get extended memory.   How do I go about creating a boot disk with just

[Freedos-user] Re: EMM386.exe

2004-05-17 Thread Eric Auer
Hi all, I think most people should be happy with HIMEM now. Most important use for FD*XMS* is the FDXMS286 for 286 based PCs. As EMM386 does not run on a 286, no problem if FD*XMS* is not compatible. Anyway, if you or I should get some free time and enough couriosity, I can recommend to analyze th

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386.exe

2004-05-17 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Bart Oldeman schreef: p.s. to others, please don't ask me when I'm going to do this or that -- as I said I'm not even sure if there'll be a new FD kernel release or even basic CVS updates before July -- most of the components of my freedos test box are on their way to a container ship due to arrive

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386.exe

2004-05-17 Thread Bart Oldeman
On Mon, 17 May 2004, Michael Devore wrote: > I have no idea what Eudora is doing, the e-mails look okay to me going > out with plain style. By the way, your original quote-back was not > wrapped and indented, and Bernd's was, so what does that mean? There is something strange here. Eudora seem

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386.exe

2004-05-17 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Michael Devore schreef: I have no idea what Eudora is doing, the e-mails look okay to me going out with plain style. By the way, your original quote-back was not wrapped and indented, and Bernd's was, so what does that mean? When replying with your text quoted, I see it as 1 single long line. When

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386.exe

2004-05-17 Thread Michael Devore
At 12:50 AM 5/18/2004 +0400, you wrote: >Hi! > >17-íÁÊ-2004 14:03 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Devore) wrote to >[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > >>>as always, your message appears as 1 long line. Very wide. Manually quoting now.. >MD> wins and I'll change or not, accordingly. What I won't do is change away >MD

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386.exe

2004-05-17 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 17-Май-2004 14:03 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Devore) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >>as always, your message appears as 1 long line. Very wide. Manually quoting now.. MD> wins and I'll change or not, accordingly. What I won't do is change away MD> from using the world-standard multi-platform E

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386.exe

2004-05-17 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 17-Май-2004 21:21 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bernd Blaauw) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >> I could go back to HTML style to get nice formatting, but then you'd have to fight >> off Eric Auer for me, so if you want to do the battle, let me know who wins and >> I'll change or not, accordingly. What I

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386.exe

2004-05-17 Thread Bernd Blaauw
I could go back to HTML style to get nice formatting, but then you'd have to fight off Eric Auer for me, so if you want to do the battle, let me know who wins and I'll change or not, accordingly. What I won't do is change away from using the world-standard multi-platform Eudora after ten+ years al

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386.exe

2004-05-17 Thread Michael Devore
At 08:44 PM 5/17/2004 +0200, Bernd Blaauw wrote: >Michael Devore schreef: > >>Looks like you might have something loaded high in a UMB that is conflicting with >>your machine environment. >>Take out the I=C800-C8FF to see if the problem goes away. In fact, you could try >>full exclusion via X

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386.exe

2004-05-17 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Michael Devore schreef: Looks like you might have something loaded high in a UMB that is conflicting with your machine environment. Take out the I=C800-C8FF to see if the problem goes away. In fact, you could try full exclusion via X=A000-EFFF > (temporarily) to see if there are any UMB confli

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386.exe

2004-05-17 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Antonio Zampino schreef: !MENUCOLOR=7,0 MENUDEFAULT=1,5 MENU 1 - Load FreeDOS including HIMEM XMS-memory driver MENU 2 - Load FreeDOS with maximum RAM free, using EMM386 MENU 3 - Load FreeDOS without drivers MENU 4 - Load FreeDOS HIMEM64 MENU 5 - Load FreeDOS TEST 25?DEVICE=C:\fdos\bin\FDXXMS.SYS B

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386.exe

2004-05-17 Thread Michael Devore
Looks like you might have something loaded high in a UMB that is conflicting with your machine environment. Take out the I=C800-C8FF to see if the problem goes away. In fact, you could try full exclusion via X=A000-EFFF (temporarily) to see if there are any UMB conflicts, then bring the UMB's

[Freedos-user] EMM386.exe

2004-05-17 Thread Antonio Zampino
Hi I am testing the latest Beta of FreeDos9 on my PC: ASUS P4C800E Deluxe with 1024 MB ram with following Config.sys Menu Item 2: !SET dosdir=C:\FDOS !SET lang=EN ;for help on commands, see file config.sys in your FreeDOS directory ;www.benq.com/ss_download/drivers/storage/cd-rom/drivers/dos/apicd2

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS

2004-05-17 Thread Jay Maus
How did you get the ISO onto the CD? Simply copying it (which is what I confess I did the first time :) ) won't work. If you're using Nero to burn CDs, rename the .iso to a .nrg, open it in Nero, and let it do the job. I don't know much about how Easy CD Creator or Alcohol 120 works, nor do I know

[Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS

2004-05-17 Thread jaqian
Sorry to be annoying you but can you help me. I want to install FreeDOS on my pc. I've downloaded both the .iso and the .img. I tried booting from the cd but no joy. Is the .iso bootable? Using Rawrite2 I've created the fdos1440.img on a floppy which works but I can't seem to be able to insta

Re: [Freedos-user] Too many files ...

2004-05-17 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 17-Май-2004 07:32 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Massimiliano Chini) wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >> Which program? MC> It is an old program for scentific calulations. It was written in 1985. -^^^---^^^ >> How you work with it? MC> I ma

Re: [Freedos-user] Too many files ...

2004-05-17 Thread Massimiliano Chini
On Mon, 17 May 2004, Arkady V.Belousov wrote: > Hi! > > 16-Май-2004 20:54 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Massimiliano Chini) wrote to > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > MC> I have a problem with a dos progam. It start but after some work I recive > MC> the error: "Too many files at address 1234:5678" > MC> I have alrea