[Freedos-user] Arachne v1.85;GPL,386+ released!

2005-07-28 Thread Florian Xaver
Hi! There is a new version of Arachne! http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/arachne/ Bye, Flo --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile

Re: [Freedos-user] VOL Command hangs HP Pavilion with EMM386

2005-07-28 Thread Bernd Blaauw
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: Hello all: As I mentioned before, remove the VDS parameter and see if things go better then. VMware suffers from incompatibility with the VDS parameter, maybe your system also. Maybe even a lot of systems, but that's a wild guess. IF things fail even without the

Re: [Freedos-user] screen reader

2005-07-28 Thread Gerry Hickman
Hi Mike, I think this is one area where a GUI system can be better than a text based system. The problem with many screen readers was that they did exactly that - read the screen, but under text based systems the developer does not design his applications with consistency - each has it's own

Re: [Freedos-user] Arachne v1.85;GPL,386+ released!

2005-07-28 Thread Gerry Hickman
Florian Xaver wrote: There is a new version of Arachne! http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/arachne/ What does it do? -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005 *

Re: [Freedos-user] Arachne v1.85;GPL,386+ released!

2005-07-28 Thread Florian Xaver
Changes are listed at http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/arachne/changes.txt Bye, Flo There is a new version of Arachne! http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/arachne/ What does it do? --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference

Re: [Freedos-user] Arachne v1.85;GPL,386+ released!

2005-07-28 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Gerry Hickman schreef: http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/arachne/ What does it do? Arachne is a limited graphical webbrowser for DOS (and maybe Linux). Bernd --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September

Re: [Freedos-user] Arachne v1.85;GPL,386+ released!

2005-07-28 Thread Blair Campbell
What does it do? It's a graphical web browser. --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile Plan-Driven Development * Managing

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK another partition problem

2005-07-28 Thread Gerry Hickman
Hi Johnson, Out of interest, I think you said it would not boot? Again, should be FDISK problem, seems it can't write the MBR correctly But you didn't tell it to write an MBR? (happen again today in other PII system!) Just a normal setup procedure after setting up the RAID-5: 1) FDISK,

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK another partition problem

2005-07-28 Thread Florian Xaver
Yes, that's what I'm thinking. The problems will arise when you can't do multi-tasking and multi-threading, and utilizing full power of load balancing on dual XEON:( Have you tried DR-DOS's multitasking? Bye, Flo --- SF.Net email is

Re: [Freedos-user] How to report a kernel bug?

2005-07-28 Thread Aitor SantamarĂ­a Merino
I have a machine where to reproduce this bug, or a similar one. It's a 286. Strangely enough, FreeDOS will boot from floppy and see C:, but will refuse to boot from there (locks at InitDisk I think, I haven't investigated into this). The bad point is that I wasn't able to investigate into this,

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK issue with Windows Build

2005-07-28 Thread Gerry Hickman
Hi, I've been testing FreeDOS as a Pre-build environment for server and client Windows builds. In general, everything with FreeDOS is far better than MS-DOS or real-mode Win95/98/ME. However, I'm now at the stage of actually building the real PCs and have run into a small but time-consuming

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK issue with Windows Build

2005-07-28 Thread Blair Campbell
FreeDOS Beta9sr1: 1. FDISK /CLEARALL 2. FDISK /MBR 3. FDISK /PRI:2000 Not sure if this is the problem, but try without fdisk /mbr --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco,

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK issue with Windows Build

2005-07-28 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Gerry Hickman schreef: FreeDOS Beta9sr1: 1. FDISK /CLEARALL 2. FDISK /MBR 3. FDISK /PRI:2000 4. reboot 5. FORMAT C: 6. Start real-mode windows setup program 7. Windows is installed, but now it presents a boot loader menu every time it starts with a 30 second timeout. Windows has even kindly

Re: [Freedos-user] Arachne v1.85;GPL,386+ released!

2005-07-28 Thread Gerry Hickman
Bernd Blaauw wrote: What does it do? Arachne is a limited graphical webbrowser for DOS (and maybe Linux). Thanks, this was not clear from the original link. -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK another partition problem

2005-07-28 Thread Gerry Hickman
Florian Xaver wrote: Have you tried DR-DOS's multitasking? Actually no! I guess it's possible then? But at some point you have to look at the history of prot-mode, isolated processes, installable services, 32/64 bit architecture, self-headling file-systems, and decide how far to take it

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK issue with Windows Build

2005-07-28 Thread Blair Campbell
But as far as I know FDISK /CLEARALL will remove the MBR. If I don't put it back, the hard drive will NOT boot at all when Windows setup calls the reboot code... The hard drive will not boot, but the Windows CD should be able to. Unless it is Win95.

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK issue with Windows Build

2005-07-28 Thread Gerry Hickman
Hi Bernd, FreeDOS Beta9sr1: 1. FDISK /CLEARALL 2. FDISK /MBR 3. FDISK /PRI:2000 4. reboot 5. FORMAT C: 6. Start real-mode windows setup program C: is NTFS, FAT16 or FAT32? If you look at Step 3 above, you will perhaps agree that C: is FAT32? Unknown bootsectors are indeed saved to file

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK issue with Windows Build

2005-07-28 Thread Gerry Hickman
Hi Blair, But as far as I know FDISK /CLEARALL will remove the MBR. If I don't put it back, the hard drive will NOT boot at all when Windows setup calls the reboot code... The hard drive will not boot, but the Windows CD should be able to. Unless it is Win95. Perhaps a misunderstanding?

[Freedos-user] re: FreeDOS FDISK another partition problem

2005-07-28 Thread Eric Auer
Hi... 2. FDISK /CLEARALL 1 3. FDISK /MBR 4. FDISK /PRI:2000 That would be dangerous, I think. The bug report was just it does not boot after fdisk and sys, not I want to kill all my data. The solution FDISK /MBR will already be enough. run some heavy calculation job, FreeDOS surely will

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK issue with Windows Build

2005-07-28 Thread Blair Campbell
Perhaps a misunderstanding? I'm not using a Windows CD, I'm building over the network. You basically put an image of your o/s with customizations on a network share, boot to FreeDOS, create temporary partition on the first physical hard-drive, then run the Windows setup program. The setup

[Freedos-user] re: FreeDOS FDISK issue with Windows Build

2005-07-28 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Gerry, The summary of the issue, is that Windows thinks there's a previous operating system on the C drive, even though FreeDOS has _never_ been installed on that C drive. It causes a boot loader menu to appear in Windows every time the computer is started offering Windows or the

[Freedos-user] re: How to report a kernel bug?

2005-07-28 Thread Eric Auer
Hm... why not ask on -kernel or at least on -devel? I have a machine where to reproduce this bug, or a similar one. It's a 286. Strangely enough, FreeDOS will boot from floppy and see C:, but will refuse to boot from there (locks at InitDisk I think, I haven't investigated into this). IF

Re: [Freedos-user] Arachne v1.85;GPL,386+ released!

2005-07-28 Thread Tom Lee Mullins
Florian Xaver wrote: Hi! There is a new version of Arachne! http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/arachne/ Bye, Flo --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development

Re: [Freedos-user] Arachne v1.85;GPL,386+ released!

2005-07-28 Thread Tom Lee Mullins
Florian Xaver wrote: Hi! There is a new version of Arachne! http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/arachne/ Bye, Flo --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development

Re: [Freedos-user] VOL Command hangs HP Pavilion with EMM386

2005-07-28 Thread kd4d
Hi Michael, et al: OK, I am back with the Haunted HP Pavilion (TM). Downloaded development kernel, command.com, and sys.com from fdos.org/kernel. Downloaded emm204x and extracted himem.exe and emm386.exe. Did a SYS: on a USB floppy from WindowsXP. Copied a random version of edit.com on the

Re: [Freedos-user] VOL Command hangs HP Pavilion with EMM386

2005-07-28 Thread kd4d
Hi Bernd et al: I wish to thank all of you again for the wonderful support and help! I have been amazed at the responsiveness of the FreeDOS community! Back with the haunted HP Pavilion (TM). Development kernel, sys, and command.com from fdos.org/kernel. EMM386.EXE and HIMEM.SYS from

Re: [Freedos-user] VOL Command hangs HP Pavilion with EMM386

2005-07-28 Thread Michael Devore
At 11:53 PM 7/28/2005 +, Mark wrote: Do I need VDS? :-) What does it do? How can I help identify the problem? I do have the Haunted HP Pavilion (TM)! Turn it off if everything works without it. It's just for upper memory reporting of true physical address instead of logical address