[Freedos-user] Devload.com and Network Drivers
I'm working on a network boot disk for multiple computers (Ghost), and am trying to have the boot disk auto detect and install the network drivers automatically, to save time since I image dozens of computers at once. Right now, I can properly load up the drivers through config.sys, but I have to select them from a menu. For the auto select mode, I have to load them in autoexec.bat, using devload.com. The first two drivers, generic ones-- protman.dos and dis_pkt.dos load up fine, but when I try to load each individual network driver, the entire process outputs an error, some hex, and hangs. I'm not sure whether I have himem.sys and emm386.exe configured wrong, or if it is something else, so I have included my himem and emm386 lines below. My Himem.sys line: device=\bin\himem.exe /testmem:off My emm386.exe line: device=\bin\emm386.exe noems X=TEST Thanks, Charles -- A wise man knows everything. A shrewd man knows everyone. --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid3432bid#0486dat1642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Devload.com and Network Drivers
Charles Peck wrote: I'm working on a network boot disk for multiple computers (Ghost), and You know http://www.nu2.nu/bootdisk/network/ ? Robert Riebisch -- BTTR Software http://www.bttr-software.de/ --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=103432bid=230486dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] re: Dual Boot WindowsXP and FreeDOS - Alpha testers needed
Hi... Nearly anything you'd ever want to do in FreeDOS can be done without going anywhere near a hard drive or it's o/s. It's very easy to create a bootable FreeDOS CD or bootable FreeDOS data stick... Making USB sticks boot FreeDOS is not actually trivial. And as Mark said, booting from and writing to non-harddisk media is slow and in the case of CD even impossible... Yeah well we could support CD-RW with UDF. Maybe ;-). Anyone who is interested in FreeDOS would insist on re-building any PC that ever landed on their desk. The first thing I do to an XP machine is run FreeDOS FDISK with the /clearall option... You are an OS racist. Many people are very happy with their Windows-Linux dual boot system, and the same will be the case for Windows-DOS or Windows-DOS-Linux systems. Linux distros let you resize the Windows partition to make space for Linux, which is MUCH easier than deleting and reinstalling Windows. Plus it is a bit never change a running system - do not reinstall it, better resize it :-). Even if you do want XP, you can simply create a bootable partition formatted as FAT to install FreeDOS and then put Windoze on the next partition and so on. Anyone who runs a PC with only one partition is a foo... As said :-). So resizers are nice. As Windows usually comes preinstalled so the users are not given the option to create multiple partitions in the first place. MS claims that drive letters confuse users :-P. MS also promoted that stupid revert to shipping state recovery mode, which can be triggered by any idiot but which (who cares? at least MS does not) also deletes your own files and removes all security updates and so on. But hey, letting users FIX their Windows would mean work for the helpdesk. Another option for anyone serious about FreeDOS is simply add a second hard drive; it's cheap, and it's a lot easier and much safer in terms of disaster recovery and you can also use it for swap file etc. I disagree. If you hit your Windows drive with a hammer, you can unplug it and then still have DOS? At least for the software view, a separate partition is just as good as a separate harddisk... And absolutely cheaper than a new disk :-). Eric --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=103432bid=230486dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
