I've been tracking FreeDOS development on and off for years. I finally had an
excuse to install FreeDOS on one of my computers when I found it didn't have
enough memory to run many of the newer operating systems. I have a Sony
PCG-F540 laptop 500 MHz with 64 MB RAM and a 6 Gig hard disk. It
Fabrício Ceolin wrote:
Do Anyone sucess compile dmidecode for freedos, using djgpp?
I've build a draft version of dmidecode version 2.9 in February 2008:
http://www.bttr-software.de/forum/board_entry.php?id=3394 Full release
is still missing. :-(
Robert Riebisch
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BTTR Software
Hi,
One last question. Is there a good forum or mailing list for discussing
porting/compiling Open Source applications to DOS? There are several command
line and a few pdcurses applicatons I like. Would be interested to see how
many work on FreeDOS. I'd rather not reinvent the wheel
had to run the install CD twice to get FreeDOS installed on the hard drive.
Known problem, the 1.0 distro is obsolete and buggy ...
My experience was that about half of the ones i tried on FreeDOS worked.
Make sure to update the kernel, HIMEM to HIMEMX, EMM386 to nothing or
JEMM, CTMOUSE, ...
IHPFS.EXE seems to work. It has a provision for selecting drive letter.
However, the HPFS partition is located amongst FAT 1632 partitions
whose drive letters are assigned during config.sys load. Can I load it
in config.sys or somehow reserve/assign the drive letter that represents
the
