Re: [Freedos-user] Announce: vmsmount, a driver for mounting VMware's shared folders in DOS

2012-01-22 Thread maui
with vmplayer it doesn't seem to work... I'm getting a screenshot like the one attached... black borders around the prompt screen I tried a combination of the following options pref.autoFitGuestToWindow = FALSE pref.autoFitFullScreen = fitHostToGuest pref.autoFit = TRUE no success may be it

Re: [Freedos-user] Big bootable disk for CD

2012-01-22 Thread Bob Cochran
Thank you, Bret. I was just able to buy some reasonably priced USB drives and I'll play with installing FreeDOS on these. I too seem to remember that Win98 or Win XP DOS boot disks always boot with an extended memory management application. Does FreeDOS have the equivalent? The machine I'm

Re: [Freedos-user] Big bootable disk for CD

2012-01-22 Thread dmccunney
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 1:55 PM, Bob Cochran bcochra...@verizon.net wrote: Thank you, Bret. I was just able to buy some reasonably priced USB drives and I'll play with installing FreeDOS on these. I too seem to remember that Win98 or Win XP DOS boot disks always boot with an extended memory

Re: [Freedos-user] Big bootable disk for CD

2012-01-22 Thread dmccunney
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 4:30 PM, TJ Edmister damag...@hyakushiki.net wrote: On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 14:07:01 -0500, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote: FreeDOS *is* a DOS system, so you'll have the standard DOS limit of 1MB of real memory, and 640KB of conventional memory available to

Re: [Freedos-user] Big bootable disk for CD

2012-01-22 Thread Bob Cochran
Thank you, Dennis and TJ. I do indeed have 16 gigabytes of memory on my box. It is running a 6 core processor and gaming motherboard (that is MSI's description for it) which I've repurposed for server work. Specifically it is being transformed into a network attached storage server running