On 1/5/2021 1:01 AM, Bryan Kilgallin wrote:
I still have a problem, Jim:
That's the nice thing about DOS - everything is statically linked,
and specific paths usually don't matter much.
As I had tried to explain to Ralf, I have an old Dell 32-bit computer.
That is physically-separate from
To add to the wonderful GEM discussion, when I run GEM on my modern
laptop running FreeDOS and OpenGEM, GEM produces a blank white screen.
However, in safe mode, it works fine (though some pixmaps or
characters are missing.) So that means that some driver messes with
GEM.
On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at
Concerning a USB stick installation, I wrote:
In the FD-SETUP volume, I copied FDCONFIG.SYS, in a
test-directory. This is what it contains
Now I have booted the FreeDOS PC into its hard drive. Fdconfig.sys
therein, contains the following.
{
SET DOSDIR=C:\FDOS
I wrote:
So I do not understand why, even after rebooting the Dell, I get the
above error, when I try to use "install!.
I discovered that my old USB stick installation of FreeDOS wasn't
recognised--because I had wrongly inserted it into a network/Ethernet
port! Then replacing that drive
I still have a problem, Jim:
That's the nice thing about DOS -
everything is statically linked, and specific paths usually don't matter
much.
As I had tried to explain to Ralf, I have an old Dell 32-bit computer.
That is physically-separate from my 64-bit Linux computers--save for
sharing
Sorry about the confusion, Ralf:
Just as I have installed LTS versions of Ubuntu on my 64-bit
computers, so I chose the stable FreeDOS 1.2.
Ok, just to be clear, FreeDOS of course does not run or install on any
version of Linux, be it 32bit or 64bit.
I have Ubuntu Linux on two 64-bit
Further, Jim:
But even if you don't have
FDIMPLES, you can still install packages "manually." Just unzip them and
put the files wherever you like.
From the CD-ROM (D:\UTIL), I unzipped OPENGEM.ZIP.
Now in the 32 bit PC I have C:\FDOS\OPENGEM
Within that, I used MORE on README.TXT.
{Run the
On 1/4/2021 11:42 PM, Bryan Kilgallin wrote:
As a mere user, Jim, I am finding procedures problematic:
On FreeDOS 1.2, the graphical desktops (SEAL, oZone, OpenGEM) are
under UTIL.
Just as I have installed LTS versions of Ubuntu on my 64-bit
computers, so I chose the stable FreeDOS 1.2.
