Re: [Freedos-user] Help with installing FreeDOS on second partition
Hi, On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 10:50 AM, Marlon Ng guik...@gmail.com wrote: First partition, drive C:, of hard disk is Windows 7. Second partition (50MB), drive H: , is for FreeDos. It's been a while since I've installed FD from .iso (mostly under emulators), but I'll try to help. I downloaded the FreeDos iso file fdbasecd.iso, Why that old one? A quick double-check online shows fd11src.iso as newest: http://www.freedos.org/download/ mount it on a virtual drive, installed it in the second partition (drive H:). You just ran the installer, I take it? Didn't manually do anything else? The files are in H:\FDOS, not in the root directory H:\. Is this ok? The only files that should (presumably) be in the root directory are KERNEL.SYS and maybe COMMAND.COM . Don't delete anything, but I don't think you (normally) need more than that in root. So yes, everything else in H:\FDOS (presumably %DOSDIR%) is reasonable. Downloaded EasyBCD 2.3 Beta build (because 2.2 does not have FreeDOS OS as an option to include in the boot menu). Yes, Vista on up don't support the old (easier?) XP way via BOOT.INI, so you have to use EasyBCD. Well, or you could just use something ultra simple (like BootMgr, which fits in the MBR), assuming you've already got an active FAT partition that has its own local boot sector installed via SYS.COM . Managed to add FreeDOS in the boot menu, but when I try to boot FreeDOS, I get what seems like the GRUB boot manager saying something which I forgot. Is GRUB installed on your FAT partition?? Then I doubt it's GRUB. Presumably it's just saying not an active partition or can't find boot sector or something similar. So you probably need to (re)run SYS.COM (or maybe FDISK /MBR ... I forget, might be dangerous, can't remember whether it partially modifies/preserves the existing partition table, at worst you should probably save your existing MBR to file via BOOTMGR.COM first). I cannot boot FreeDOS. Any ideas? Thank you for your time. I'm not sure if it's reasonable to install FreeDOS from within Win7 itself. (You are talking about native physical install, not virtualized, right?) You said you mounted on virtual drive, but that presumably doesn't give you raw hard drive access. Normally you boot DOS itself (natively, via floppy or CD or USB) and manually run the installer tools, e.g. fdisk, (reboot), format, sys, xcopy, (etc.). So if you already have an active FAT partition, you can then run (DOS) sys.com, something like this: sys a: c: /BOOTONLY to update the boot sector. An easier way (or maybe good way to troubleshoot / repair) is to use RUFUS, which is a bootable USB made from within Windows itself: http://rufus.akeo.ie/ -- ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] Help with installing FreeDOS on second partition
Hi! First partition, drive C:, of hard disk is Windows 7. Second partition (50MB), drive H: , is for FreeDos. I downloaded the FreeDos iso file fdbasecd.iso, mount it on a virtual drive, installed it in the second partition (drive H:). The files are in H:\FDOS, not in the root directory H:\. Is this ok? Downloaded EasyBCD 2.3 Beta build (because 2.2 does not have FreeDOS OS as an option to include in the boot menu). Managed to add FreeDOS in the boot menu, but when I try to boot FreeDOS, I get what seems like the GRUB boot manager saying something which I forgot. I cannot boot FreeDOS. Any ideas? Thank you for your time. -- ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] opengem
2.05 is nearing release thanks to Andris, Eli, Juan, Ozakan. Andrew Wu has even updated his build-djgpp cross-compiler to support the 2.05 beta [0]. [0] https://github.com/andrewwutw/build-djgpp/commit/7251f8f70661bafeeed9bb5172a7ae6c3bf34741 On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 11:24 PM, Thomas Mueller mueller6...@twc.com wrote: from Louis Santillan: Will you 1) be moving your project hosting and 2) porting to DJGPP 2.05? You mean DJGPP is up to 2.05? I went to their website, and current version was 2.03. I remember there was a 2.04 beta, but never heard of DJGPP 2.05. www.delorie.com/djgpp/ Tom -- ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] opengem
from Louis Santillan: Will you 1) be moving your project hosting and 2) porting to DJGPP 2.05? You mean DJGPP is up to 2.05? I went to their website, and current version was 2.03. I remember there was a 2.04 beta, but never heard of DJGPP 2.05. www.delorie.com/djgpp/ Tom -- ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] opengem
Will you 1) be moving your project hosting and 2) porting to DJGPP 2.05? I already moved the files to Sourceforge: https://sourceforge.net/projects/fltk-dos/ But I still have to add screenshots and stuff at that site. Yes, when DJGPP 2.05 is released I plan to use that. At the moment I find things rather confusing with the 2.05 files in different directories and mixed with 2.04 and 2.03 utilities. To what extend can you use the existing 2.03/2.04 utilities when using DJGPP 2.05 to compile applications? Perhaps a more updated alternative to opengem would be XFDOS I have tried it and found it be quite an impressive interface and its word processor alone is worth giving it a try. http://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/news/2013/04/xfdos-graphical-freedos-distribution/ I think some people are just interested in vintage computing and therefore do not look at new DOS applications. Georg -- ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
