Re: [Freedos-user] Bug? Confusing boot options in FreeDOS 1.2

2017-02-08 Thread Ulrich Hansen
> Am 08.02.2017 um 22:46 schrieb Jerome Shidel >: > > Bug? Not really. > Is it correct? Not even close. Then lets correct it. :-) It’s pretty easy, as I showed in my last mail. > Also, #2 should not say EMM386 when it uses JEMM386. That’s even

Re: [Freedos-user] Rolling up from 1.1?

2017-02-08 Thread Jerome Shidel
Also, if you run the installer in advanced mode. You can choose not to replace your config files, use zip to backup and other stuff. But, generally I recommend just running the install in normal mode. If you quit the installer and run it as "setup adv" , it will run in advanced mode. You can

Re: [Freedos-user] Rolling up from 1.1?

2017-02-08 Thread Jerome Shidel
> On Feb 8, 2017, at 4:57 PM, David McMackins wrote: > > Call me a noob, but is there a preferred way to upgrade from FreeDOS 1.1 > to 1.2 while keeping configurations intact? I haven't personally loaded > the new installer yet, but I wanted to check before I tried,

[Freedos-user] Rolling up from 1.1?

2017-02-08 Thread David McMackins
Call me a noob, but is there a preferred way to upgrade from FreeDOS 1.1 to 1.2 while keeping configurations intact? I haven't personally loaded the new installer yet, but I wanted to check before I tried, since my FreeDOS installation is on real hardware. Happy Hacking, David E. McMackins II

Re: [Freedos-user] Bug? Confusing boot options in FreeDOS 1.2

2017-02-08 Thread Jerome Shidel
Bug? Not really. Is it correct? Not even close. You are correct that there are at least a couple issues with the FDCONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT file. Also, #2 should not say EMM386 when it uses JEMM386. The current 1.2 config files are based on a clean install of 1.1 into VMware Fusion. Then

[Freedos-user] Bug? Confusing boot options in FreeDOS 1.2

2017-02-08 Thread Ulrich Hansen
In FreeDOS 1.1 there was a boot option 4 „Load FreeDOS without drivers“. [see picture 1] It booted a clean system, with SYSTEM and COMMAND and nothing else. [2] In FreeDOS 1.2 there is a boot option 3 „Load FreeDOS without drivers (Emergency Mode) [3] If you choose it, you load FreeDOS with