Re: [Freedos-user] Using USB Mass Storage on FreeDOS

[Thomas Mueller]

On USBASPI and USBDOS, I had zero luck.

But on a newer computer where USB drives are recognized by BIOS or UEFI, 
FreeDOS can boot from USB stick.

Also, FreeDOS can access any USB stick with FAT32 if present at boot time.

FreeDOS did not recognize a USB stick inserted after FreeDOS was already active.

FreeDOS was not able to access any USB stick with Linux or BSD file system, no 
drive letter.

Drive letters look strange and feel clumsy to me after spending almost all my 
computer time with OSes (Linux, BSD, Haiku) that don't use DOS-style drive 
letters.


Tom


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Re: [Freedos-user] Using USB Mass Storage on FreeDOS

[Rugxulo]

Hi,

On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 10:02 AM, Ercan Ersoy  wrote:
>
> I tried using my USB mass storage on Virtualbox 5.0.36.

You mean "pass-through" or whatever, using native hardware under VM?
Doubt VBox supports that for DOS guests (since they don't have any
guest additions for DOS, last I heard).

> I using
> USBASPI.SYS and USBDOS programs. But, I don't use my mass storage.

USBASPI? That doesn't come with FreeDOS, AFAIK, hence it's probably
not supported nor recommended (and won't work).

> How can I using my mass storage on FreeDOS?

I'm not sure if you can. Half-jokingly, you should maybe try this:

http://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-11.0/zipslack/

Better than nothing?  ;-)

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Re: [Freedos-user] A few words about AOL and Yahoo

[Jim Hall]

While AOL and Yahoo are interesting topics, they aren't related to
FreeDOS. We seem to be on a tangent, here.

Can this discussion get moved off the FreeDOS list?

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Re: [Freedos-user] A few words about AOL and Yahoo

[dmccunney]

On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 11:36 PM, Felix Miata  wrote:
> dmccunney composed on 2017-04-25 22:29 (UTC-0400):
>
>> Verizon may keep Yahoo Groups active (but change the name as part of
>> the re-branding.)
>
> I hope it continues. A lot of useful help groups and archives will disappear 
> if
> it does not.

I hope it does too.  I'm just not betting on it.

> Before it became yahoogroups in 2001 it was eGroups, which IIRC was the
> originator, not a rebrander. Before eGroups, mailing lists were primarily
> created and maintained by various interests serving the specific groups that
> needed them, using MajorDomo or software like it; before web forums existed,
> when Usenet was still useful to and known by the majority of the minority of
> people using the internet at all.

I recall eGroups.  Topica was another list provider.  (I created and
manage a Google Groups based list intended to replace a formet Topica
forum when that entity closed the service.)
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Re: [Freedos-user] A few words about AOL and Yahoo

[dmccunney]

On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 11:59 PM, Thomas Mueller  wrote:
>
> I have some @bellsouth.net inboxes/accounts from my days with bellsouth.net .
>
> I also have an AOL free email account.
>
> So I wonder how these will be affected.

They shouldn't be affected at all.  Bell South is not part of Verizon.
It's a separate Baby Bell created by the breakup of the old AT
Verizon owns AOL but it still exists.  Verizon is pushing former
verizon.net email accounts to move to AOL accounts instead.

> For a time, about three weeks, POP3 download from bellsouth.net account was 
> very slow, and only one or two at a time.
>
> That made me switch three mailing list subscriptions to twc.com .
>
> There is also a freemail service at gmx.net as well as premium, paying email 
> account options.

There are a variety of free web based email offers.  I'm betting
Yahoo's will go away, and possibly be mergered into AOL's offering.

> Yahoo has been using an annoying CAPTCHA to get access to webmail or even 
> online help, with letters/numbers that didn't stay still but swam around, so 
> I couldn't solve the CAPTCHA.  And AT has the gall to send advertising for 
> their Internet service (DIRECTV or Uverse).

Yahoo has been annoying for quite some time.  My gripe back when was
Yahoo's insistence on sending HTML email, even if you had configured
Yahoo Mail for plain text.  It was a problem for various Yahoo Groups
that were explicitly plain text and didn't want HTML formatted mail.

I have a Yahoo account, created as an alternate for testing, and one
mailing list I own and moderate also goes there as well as to my Gmail
account.  If it goes away, I won't miss it.

> Tom
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[Freedos-user] Using USB Mass Storage on FreeDOS

[Ercan Ersoy]

Hello,

I tried using my USB mass storage on Virtualbox 5.0.36. I using 
USBASPI.SYS and USBDOS programs. But, I don't use my mass storage.

How can I using my mass storage on FreeDOS?

Thanks and best regards,
Ercan
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