Hi,
I worked on Svarog86 during past days, and released a new version
yesterday. It contains the most indispensable tools now (all carefully
picked to work fine on ancient machines), a custom build of FreeCOM and
the FreeDOS kernel, both tuned for 8086 and reasonable memory
consumption, as wel
Skyler F composed on 2015-05-29 19:11 (UTC-0600):
> I took a look, and the capacitors seemed to be fine.
Including power supply?
> One had the slightest
> bulge, but was a smaller cap and didn't seem to be out of control leaking.
> If I get to it, I might check the values printed with a capacita
>
> If you open it (very easy, two buttons, no tools) to take a
> look and find no caps to be obviously bad, odds are its prior reliability
> will remain intact.
I took a look, and the capacitors seemed to be fine. One had the slightest
bulge, but was a smaller cap and didn't seem to be out of co
Skyler F composed on 2015-05-29 16:40 (UTC-0600):
> I got it from my Grandpa because it was sitting at his house with no use.
> I used to use the computer as my primary AllStar link node [1] and has been
> running 24/7. This computer fits the era of bad caps. Yikes, glad my cap
> did not fail or
>
> Is this a recent acquisition? That was manufactured in an era when Dell
> products were suffering the bad cap plague
I got it from my Grandpa because it was sitting at his house with no use.
I used to use the computer as my primary AllStar link node [1] and has been
running 24/7. This compute
Skyler F composed on 2015-05-29 16:03 (UTC-0600):
> Felix Miata wrote:
>> Fixing your problem may be as simple as
>> booting the installation disk to a command prompt, then running "FDISK
>> /MBR".
> Thanks! Solved the problem!
:-D
> Time to load motorola programming software for ham radio us
>
> Fixing your problem may be as simple as
> booting the installation disk to a command prompt, then running "FDISK
> /MBR".
Thanks! Solved the problem!
Time to load motorola programming software for ham radio use.
On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 10:11 AM, Felix Miata wrote:
> Skyler F composed on
Skyler F composed on 2015-05-29 09:43 (UTC-0600):
> I am trying to install freeDOS on my Dell Dimension 8400 with a pentium 4
> processer.
> I first booted in gparted and deleted all partitions so I had a blank slate
> computer.
> I then created the partition within the freedos installation disk
I am trying to install freeDOS on my Dell Dimension 8400 with a pentium 4
processer.
I first booted in gparted and deleted all partitions so I had a blank slate
computer.
I then created the partition within the freedos installation disk and
installed it.
After creating the partition, when I proc
Hi,
On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 5:59 AM, Don Flowers wrote:
>
> The wayback site link is dead.
Try this, it seems to work:
http://web.archive.org/web/20141006080519/http://www.japheth.de/debxxf.html
Although, again, I'm not sure which "debug" you're looking for. (He
had another few of his own.) Ag
Shane,
THANK YOU! I tried every "redirect" to a filename that was possible with
no success. Then when I also tried MS-DOS 7.10 & the error popped I thought
it was probably a "vintage" syntax issue but I could not see what was
supposed to be happening at that point. After changing the script, this
I think I see what's going on.
The purpose of "echo>> reint.scr/" is to add a blank line to the reint.scr file.
This works in the MS-DOS COMMAND.COM shell, but not in the FreeDOS COMMAND.COM
shell nor in 4DOS.
A (somewhat) more standard way to do this would be to instead use "echo.>>
reint.scr"
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