Georg Potthast schreef op 7-12-2014 om 12:51:
> Without my included XFDOS ISO image this package is just about 5 MB in size.
> So if you have a DOS application that you want to make available for Windows
> 7 or 8 in 64 bit mode you could add this to the MetaDOS image in this
> package and allow yo
Op 26-10-2010 17:30, Willi Wasser schreef:
> A new version of the network monitoring program LANSTAT (aka "little sister")
> is available and can be downloaded from here:
> http://www.bttr-software.de/products/jhoffmann/. It now also provides for
> logging, offers a considerably greater flexibil
yet. Basicly I recently got a router (well
technically ADSL modem but not using that part) with built in 512MB
flash memory and option of additional USB storage. It allows for some
nice testing of network speeds.
with best regards,
Bernd Blaauw
---
Op 12-5-2011 16:13, James Collins schreef:
> I want to be able to use my cd/dvd drive on my MacBook pro laptop. I have the
> drivers for UIDE. I have read the readme file, but it is very technical. I
> could use some help loading the drivers.
>
> Do I have to edit my config.sys file? Do I put the
Op 17-5-2011 17:45, Alain Mouette schreef:
> I am using UIDE and XMGR from 10-May-11, I made my config from your
> example (whole file attached), jemm386 is 572 dated 13mar2008 (complete
> config at the end):
> device=a:\dos\xmgr.sys /B
> device=a:\dos\jemm386.exe I=TEST NOEMS
> device=a:\dos\xmgr.
Op 17-5-2011 19:40, Alain Mouette schreef:
> I boot normaly, single-stepping, loading all *except IEDE*, than I do:
> SET COMSPEC=C:\COMMAND.COM (it's the same)
> C:
> DEVLOAD A:\DOS\UIDE.SYS /D:CDROM
>
> it loads, and I can access drive C:, but if I access A: it locks just
> the same
Op 17-5-2011 20:41, Alain Mouette schreef:
Alain, can I privately send you a complete disk image sometime tomorrow
by email? Would be 1.44MB, maybe slightly smaller if compressing first.
It would replace your own floppy image directly, you can still use your
own method of ISO generating.
Basicly
Op 17-5-2011 20:41, Alain Mouette schreef:
> Well, so it is a BIOS bug, and that is the end of research in this
> direction...
>
> Either syslinux (that seems to be better but for which I need help) or
> RDISK+SUBST (that I know, but may be a bit clumsy)
ok, made a very basic ISO generation batchf
Op 18-5-2011 19:12, Preethi S. schreef:
Hi,
I need to create 40 MB disk space using tdsk.exe. I can able to create
lesser space than this.
Is there any way to accomplish this or is there any other tool? Any
help is appreciated.
In what situation do you want to create space? If working w
Op 19-5-2011 2:28, Alain Mouette schreef:
> I managed to make a Boot CD that works almost in all machines. The only
> one that is not working is "Virtual PC 2007". it locks uppun execution
> of JEMM386 from a CD image. XMGR is used because it is required by UIDE.
Technically UIDE doesn't require X
Op 27-5-2011 23:49, Michael B. Brutman schreef:
> I released mTCP as open source today: http://code.google.com/p/mtcp/
hi Michael, congratulations on possibly having the first GPL3 DOS program ^^
I seem to recall you needing permission from your employer to do this so
thanks go out to them as wel
Op 1-6-2011 18:25, mbbrut...@brutman.com schreef:
>>
>>> Well, relatively free. A certain group of people are aghast that I used
>>> GPL v3 - apparently that is not free enough for them. I'm getting a
>>> good laugh out of that conversation though.
>>
I've read that discussion and liked it, in m
Op 5-6-2011 17:24, Pat Villani schreef:
> See HP, Dell, Asus, etc. They all happen to ship FreeDOS on their
> systems.
Motherboard installation CDs seem to be using FreeDOS a lot indeed (for
BIOS flashing as well as creating the infamous F6 Windows mass storage
driver disk).
Still not looked a
Op 6-6-2011 0:38, jasse...@itelefonica.com.br schreef:
>> ...
>> Still not looked at that DOS PDF reader that was posted a while ago, but
>> it could be a good addition.
>> ...
> Where and when was it posted ?
at Robert Riebisch's BTTR forums:
http://www.bttr-software.de/forum/forum_entry.php?i
Op 7-6-2011 20:05, Willi Wasser schreef:
> I really didn't expect to trigger so much controversy with my initial
> questions. And i found it interesting to learn that companies like HP and
> DELL still offer DOS. But if one takes a closer look, it becomes soon clear,
> that DOS for them is more
Op 7-6-2011 21:01, Mike Eriksen schreef:
> If Linux counts as "a more powerful/modern" OS I yet haven't failed to
> make a bootable USB key. It may require some brute force like wiping
> the entire disk out with zeros and then start from scratch -
> partitioning, putting on a MBR, formatting and ev
Op 8-6-2011 1:22, Eric Auer schreef:
> Not really - www.coreboot.org/SeaBIOS you can simply load an UEFI
> payload which implements the classic PC BIOS interface. Actually
> it seems that modern BIOSes already do this and just do not talk
> much about also supporting UEFI, maybe because Windows sti
Op 7-6-2011 23:46, Rugxulo schreef:
> VirtualBox may?? support USB booting (or at least reading) nowadays,
> but I've never bothered.
My idea is indeed to find a boot environment for USB flash media, and
test the following:
* is USB seen as A: or C:
* can I boot it directly
* can I boot DOS throug
Op 11-6-2011 3:38, Jack schreef:
> I am getting VERY TIRED of responding to FALSE problems about my
> drivers!!
Troubleshooting configurations (hardware + software) can be quite
difficult indeed, resulting in blaming specific drivers.
For example I tried a bootable USB flash disk yesterday which
Op 13-6-2011 17:28, Bart-Jan Vrielink schreef:
> Isn't the whole point of installing an OS that you end up with a partition?
> What I did was create a new VM in Virtmanager, type MSDOS, with a small
> hard disk and booting from the freedos CD image. What I would expect is
> an installer guiding me
Op 15-6-2011 16:51, Alain Mouette schreef:
> Hi, I am still having problems making an intaller from CD. I came across
> an HP machine (MS219BR) that no drive recognizes and also external USB
> CD drivers. So...
I'm not understanding your situation, got some more details?
Seems like you've got a non
Op 20-6-2011 22:31, Chris D schreef:
> Is that boot floppy really as useless as it seems to be? Is there
> really a way of installing to a machine without a CD drive?
You'll need at least the SHSUCDX and SHSUCDHD programs to access the
ISO's contents:
SHSUCDHD /F:C:\FDBOOTCD.ISO
SHSUCDX /D:SHSU
Op 5-7-2011 15:54, Chris D schreef:
> What I found was that the boot floppy created is incomplete and that
> therefore the installation doesn't work. I got around that with help
> from this group but found that this did not install a boot menu to allow
> me to carry on using the existing PC-DOS,
Op 8-7-2011 2:21, Garrison Ricketson schreef:
> Hello everyone,
> It has been a long time since I have sent anything to these news letters,...
> This is a little off subject, in relation to Free Dos, hope it is ok,
> Dose anyone know what is involved, and if it is possible to put a Dos
> game on a
Op 14-7-2011 5:09, Marcos Favero Florence de Barros schreef:
> I'm now using the 32-bit 2040 kernel, because none of these
> errors has ever appeared under the previous 32-bit kernels, and
> I'm hoping they will not appear under the new one either
> [fingers crossed].
>
> Any advice is we
Op 16-7-2011 5:50, Andrew Robins schreef:
> To partly answer my own questions earlier:
> 1) How do I install kernell.?
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=27324018
> - yup, I tried a straight over-write when the update was released, but
> over the last week the filesystem gr
Op 16-7-2011 5:00, Andrew Robins schreef:
> Congratulations, firstly, on getting on SourceForge's Top Projects list
> this month. I think the accolade is long-overdue. I've finally signed up
> here partly to thank you for your base that I have used on a Toshiba
> 430CDS Satellite Pro (48MB, P1, 120
Op 17-7-2011 0:26, Virii schreef:
>
>> You are right that installing "all" includes some unstable
>> things such as old USB or network drivers which might crash
>> or hang during install. To avoid that, un-select packages
>> or simply install "base" freedos before "full" freedos.
I think the WGET
Op 16-7-2011 15:43, Virii schreef:
> First of all, I'd like to get some more basic problems out of the way. After
> downloading the 1.0 'full' cd iso, and burning it to a disc, I was unable to
> boot into 'live' mode. I know now this is due to my PC only having a SATA
> DVD-RW drive.
I was under t
Op 17-7-2011 20:30, Jeffrey schreef:
> The FreeDOS wiki says that NASM is the reference assembler. However,
> when I use FreeDOS DEBUG to disassemble (unassemble?) a com file,
> the syntax for addressing memory is not NASM syntax.
I suppose DEBUG mimicks Microsoft's DEBUG. As there is a Microsoft
Op 18-7-2011 5:13, Juan Castro schreef:
> The first line (starting with "UIDE.SYS") stays there for 19 seconds.
> Then the second one (starting with "IDE0 Controller") stays there for 49
> seconds. Then I get that error message. In a real machine, UIDE loads
> lightning quick.
I remember reading
Op 18-7-2011 19:03, Ralf A. Quint schreef:
> It does not only take a(ny) packet driver for him to get working, it
> would take additional software to deal with WEP/WPA encryption and
> most importantly, the wireless setup and functionality like dealing
> with SSID, channel, etc as well. That are al
Op 19-7-2011 6:05, Rugxulo schreef:
> Have you tried UIDEJR instead?
That won't help. Jack, author of UIDE, reminded me that UIDE is written
for hardware with perfect (thus no bugs) PCI capabilities. Some real
systems might have expose hardware/firmware bugs with respect to UIDE
querying it. Em
Op 19-7-2011 5:40, Juan Castro schreef:
> 1) Adding /N1 to the UIDE commandline (at the end) to disable the
> handling and caching of harddisks, might speed things up a bit.
>
> That had no effect.
Unfortunate. Ah well, was worth a shot.
> Worked! Takes under one second to load. I got it
Op 20-7-2011 1:12, Eric Auer schreef:
> What exactly goes wrong when you do what?
> At which step? Which error messages do you
> get, or do things hang? Crash? What sorts
> of everything did you try, what happened?
Lot's of stuff isn't functioning in the 2nd release, debugging that at
the moment.
Op 20-7-2011 4:17, Virii schreef:
>> What exactly goes wrong when you do what?
>> At which step? Which error messages do you
>> get, or do things hang? Crash? What sorts
>> of everything did you try, what happened?
>
> It hangs at the language selection screen. The very bottom selection of the
> ma
Op 24-7-2011 5:59, Juan Castro schreef:
> Upgraded to VirtualBox 4.1, used the settings you said, and UIDE loads
> fast now. (And CD access still works.) But I don't get an EDD error, I
> get this:
remove the /N1 again to enable harddisk caching. Glad that UIDE loads
fast again.
I wonder if ther
Op 24-7-2011 16:52, Jack schreef:
> Apologies for my "late" response re: UIDE v.s. VirtualBox. Had to have
> my (infected!) gall-bladder removed, 25-Jun-2011. NASTY episode, and I
> am still recovering and "moving a bit slow" on driver work! Re: recent
> EDR-DOS forum posts, I say the same a
Op 24-7-2011 20:26, Rugxulo schreef:
> Why? I mean, sure /S5 is fine, I'm not complaining, but you *could*
> use Eric's XMSSIZE:
>
> http://ericauer.cosmodata.virtuaserver.com.br/soft/specials/xms-size-info-xmssizer.zip
>
> EDIT: Oh wait, that wouldn't work in CONFIG.SYS. But wait, you're
> using D
Op 25-7-2011 13:53, Michael B. Brutman schreef:
> I have an early version of HTGet ready that I would like to get some
> more testing on before it becomes part of mTCP. It is available here:
>
> http://www.brutman.com/mTCP/htget.zip
>
> HTGet lets you download a file (or whatever content) f
Op 26-7-2011 3:36, Michael B. Brutman schreef:
> On a side note, a custom built updater for FreeDOS using HTTP would be
> interesting. (HTTP is far easier to work with because the responses are
> parseable and there is only one socket to deal with, which is always
> outgoing from the client point
I'd like to announce a new FreeDOS 1.1 test CD-image file, see FreeDOS
website for download details.
I've squashed quite a few bugs which were mentioned in the BugTracker
that Robert Riebisch linked to. This new release should also be more
compatible with several emulation and virtualisation pr
Op 28-7-2011 23:22, Rugxulo schreef:
>> I am using the lastest UIDE (07-22-2011) wtih this options:
>> C:\DEVLOAD\DEVLOAD /H C:\UIDE\UIDE.SYS /E /H /S:15 /D:MYCDROM
>> Under VirtualBox, I am having the same problems when detecting the hard disk
>> than the previous UIDE version.
>
> Blind guess, b
Op 29-7-2011 13:22, Eric Auer schreef:
> That is not a bug, dos386. FreeCOM command.com DIR does this
> intentionally, as far as I remember for mimicking MS style,
> which in turn might be necessary for some older batch files.
>
> However, I understand your point, so maybe we could either
> make th
Op 30-7-2011 11:48, JPT schreef:
> You have to subscribe to this list, to be able to post?
> Ok, I did so and sent my email again...
Most mailinglists require so, or an administrator to approve messages
before they show up. Some lists indeed accept mail from unsubscribed people.
> I got about 3
Op 30-7-2011 13:47, JPT schreef:
> 1 - Use default settings
> results in a JemmEx errormessage after loading the kernel.
> JemmEx: exception 06 occured ad cs:eip 02a3:...6af,errc 0
> after pressing escape
> JemmEx: exception 06 occured ad cs:eip 02a3:...15ae,errc 0
> again pressing escape gives an
Op 30-7-2011 15:05, Zbigniew schreef:
>> Another one: all dates should be -MM-DD and times without the
>> silly "a" and "p"
>
> ...or could respect the convention:
> - when dash used as separator - date is -MM-DD
> - when dot - date format is DD.MM.
> - when slash - the format is MM/DD/
Op 30-7-2011 16:48, Rugxulo schreef:
> Which one? Does it have to be a TSR or is cmdline after-the-fact "good
> enough"?
http://www.bttr-software.de/products/jhoffmann/#dosutils
It's already on the FD1.1 CD in the \FREEDOS\CUSTOM\PACKAGES\BASE
directory. Simply do a:
D:\SETUP.BAT D:\FREEDOS\CU
Op 30-7-2011 17:05, JPT schreef:
> Was 3x128 + 1x256 = 640, but recognized only 384 MB. This might indicate
> a problem. Removed all but 1x128 MB. Memtest runs fast now,
> 20 mins for 2 passes. Everything ok.
> I will reinsert and check some of the other memory modules later.
> (I did memtest befor
Op 1-8-2011 19:33, Alain Mouette schreef:
> Try emm386.exe, jemm is too much optimysed and does not work well on ALL
> machines.
It might work, but if even XMGR already gave trouble as per his report..
Still awaiting those promised screenshots as well, I'm sure Jack or
Japheth would be interested
Op 1-8-2011 20:58, Jack schreef:
>
> JPT,
>
> Ah, "good old" Asus, who AREN'T what they used to be, as I
> know from my prior Asus mainboard and MANY service-related
> E-Mails (both English ones from me, and Mandarin ones from
> my partner Johnson Lam) that all went totally UNANSWERED!!
>
> VERY un
Op 2-8-2011 4:08, e.a...@jpberlin.de schreef:
>> - install Freedos 1.1T3
>> Ran through in almost no time, wow!
>> I got the same error message from Jemm, but pressing ESC continued
>> booting the installer.
>
> Still sounds evil. I hope the installer can work without JEMM.
This is actually JEMM
Op 2-8-2011 14:05, dos386 schreef:
>> ... or all the other date formattings
>
> No point of existence ;-)
>
>> German dd.mm. hh:mm 1.000,00 for COUNTRY
>> than BIOS default US QWERTY) are totally different
>
> I prefer to keep things simple (QWERTY, "@" and "\" discoverable)
> and convenient (Y
Op 2-8-2011 19:42, Virii schreef:
> Could someone tell me if it's possible to have multiple instances of
> (Free)DOS installed to the same partition?
Depends on your definition of 'installed' (on same partition). If you
install FreeDOS 1.0 first to a directory and then 1.1 to another
directory,
Op 3-8-2011 0:51, Jack schreef:
>
> Re: my 25-Jun-2011 gall-bladder removal, the hospital has
> finally sent a $960 bill for my "co-pay" (amount not paid
> by my medical insurance company). I sent a check today.
you missed a 'good' opportunity to visit Europe :)
Youtube lists some documentaries
Op 4-8-2011 14:32, dos386 schreef:
>> * number: nnn.nnn.nnn,xyz (european)
>
> Why not 18'446'744'073'709'551'615 ??? Comma and dot
> are usually used to separate fractional part: PI = 3.14159265358979
That's a nice idea, though at first glance a bit odd looking. Any
systems using this upper [`]
Op 4-8-2011 14:44, dos386 schreef:
> Unfortunately, the kernel looks for FDCONFIG.SYS and CONFIG.SYS
> only (I'd kick the latter, BTW), so all FreeDOS kernels will share this
> one file, except you patch the kernel.
Lots of software (especially driver installers) still depends on
CONFIG.SYS exist
Op 4-8-2011 23:24, James Hahn schreef:
> Does anybody have any experience setting up a file server using
> Freedos? I am just wondering if it is a workable idea.
>
> Thanks,
http://www.brutman.com/mTCP/ has a FTP server, don't know what you're
intending to do.
http://www.georgpotthast.de/sioux
Op 6-8-2011 15:46, dos386 schreef:
>> I'm not sure how easy it's to configure Eric's METABOOT.BOT
>> bootsector file to look for a specific kernel name
>
> "SYS.C" wrote:
>
>> " /K name : name of kernel to use in boot sector instead of %s\n"
That's hardcoded bootsector(-geometry) you're referr
Op 8-8-2011 10:57, JPT schreef:
>
> I used the one from the 1.1 install CD.
>
>
> btw, I tried to get the most recent packages for download but...
>
> The freedos page only offers links to the developer's sites?
> So do they provide freedos compatible packages?
> ?!?!
the 1.1 install CD has both i
Op 16-8-2011 0:12, Karen Lewellen schreef:
> Given the size of hard rives, using trusty pkip to create a set of backup
> discs is well not possible.
> The nice thing about functional usb drivers is of course that one can attach
> an external drive for this, and I guess? still use pkzip for the pur
Op 17-8-2011 15:12, Karen Lewellen schreef:
> I will hunt for Norton ghost, I have a copy of the last dos of> edition of norton utilities, and disk doctor is sensational.
> booting another os would not give me a place to put the files, nor a
> regular way to upgrade the backup I create.
> You were
Op 20-8-2011 7:47, Michael C. Robinson schreef:
> I'm thinking of modern video cards and multiple core processors.
> I would imagine that Freedos in 16 bit mode can't use multiple
> cores. One of the problems with DOS that I recall is a total
> lack of hardware protection. This allowed direct har
Op 20-8-2011 11:33, Michael C. Robinson schreef:
> The 386 on up supports protection in hardware to a certain degree. DOS
> has never been defined on modern 64 bit computers to my knowledge. Of
> course, I suppose one could have protection be an optional thing.
I fail to see why these additional
Op 2-9-2011 17:57, James Collins schreef:
> Hello,
>
> I have freedos running as a virtual machine in virtualbox. I am running mac
> os x 10.7 lion as my guest operating system.
>
> I have a usb floppy drive that my mac recognizes. I am wondering if i can
> enable the usb floppy drive so freedos
Op 4-9-2011 0:26, Eric Auer schreef:
> Let me see... ~/fdbasecd-remastered.iso is the output file,
> in your home "~" directory. Isolinux.bin is the boot menu
> software, I found it on my Ubuntu after installing isolinux
> (I guess) in /usr/lib/syslinux/isolinux.bin but you should
> also be able do
Op 6-9-2011 5:27, dos386 schreef:
> XXX-64 only :-(
There's an older 32bit version that's still opensource.
>> ReactOS (WARNING: development is slow. Talking about that prohibited)
>
> It's just off-topic here ;-)
Correct. Skepticism about that also not welcome here, the project has
forums and
Op 7-9-2011 22:51, Michael C. Robinson schreef:
> Windows, especially NT based Windows, is beyond the scope of Freedos.
correct, with exception of 'how to make these operating systems work
together on the same system, be it by dualbooting, adding to
bootloaders, working in virtualisation/emulati
Op 21-9-2011 22:09, Ralf A. Quint schreef:
> Sorry, I think it is more feasible to use any of the million and a
> half "calc/eval" programs that are out there for DOS...
I've always wondered why you by default can't perform any arithmetic
operations in an operating system (DOS) that's designed to
Op 28-9-2011 18:13, Koh Choon Lin schreef:
> 1. I currently have 4 PCs on MSDOS 6.22 and Win3.1 that I hope to
> migrate to FreeDOS in a few months time. They are all Pentium class
> with 8 - 64 MiB RAM and support booting from CDROM. Their purpose is
> to surf the web and basic editing of document
Op 30-9-2011 11:07, JPT schreef:
> How do you deal with UEFI PCs?
> Does Freedos work with UEFI?
Under pure UEFI, FreeDOS won't work. One reason is lack of backwards
compatibility, another reason is UEFI might restrict you to
vendor-signed cryptographic bootloaders.
My best guess would be to b
Op 29-9-2011 15:37, Michael B. Brutman schreef:
> All if this will be part of the next mTCP release, which I'm targeting
> for the next week. Getting some testing time on it is a good thing ...
I wonder if all of FlashFXP's abilities (FTP, FXP, SFTP, FTPS) work.
iPXE project has some interesting
Op 1-10-2011 4:35, Eduardo Casino schreef:
> Hi everybody,
hi Eduardo, nice work. Just had a little test run.
> I'm pleased to announce the availability of the first version of
> VMSMOUNT, an installable file system for DOS that allows access to
> VMware's shared folders as a normal drive letter:
Op 1-10-2011 17:19, Jim Hall schreef:
> I created a 100MB file full of binary zeroes, but wasn't able to
> transfer the whole file to your ftp server:
funny that, considering it's likely a 8086 running the FTP server
program, thus tiny harddisk.
> -rwxrwxrwx 1 ftp ftp 16564224 Oct 1 10:12 100
Op 1-10-2011 17:39, Michael B. Brutman schreef:
> Good test, but it is running DOS 3.3. You ran that drive out of disk
> space, and it recovered gracefully ...
Are there quota enforced in your FTP server?
* 2GB/4GB per file
* total storage allowed for FTP server's data directory
* speed?
* etc
L
Op 1-10-2011 18:09, Jim Hall schreef:
> I uploaded my file successfully, but wasn't able to complete my download:
Lots of servers are set to an INCOMING directory first, with only being
allowed to upload to the server. Admin checks files afterwards and moves
them to some /PUB directory to make i
Op 2-10-2011 0:45, Bernd Blaauw schreef:
see inline, silly ISPs at time blocking mails..
Bernd
> Op 2-10-2011 0:04, Eduardo Casino schreef:
>
>> Wow, that's feedback! :-)
>
> np, at times I tend to know what I want out of usefull things.
>
>> See below, this w
Op 8-10-2011 3:17, Michael B. Brutman schreef:
> I noticed that it doesn't support older versions of DOS - I presume that
> is just a matter of some of the data structures being different, and
> that it would be possible? Also, your code assumes a Pentium (which
> makes sense for something runnin
Op 9-10-2011 20:53, Eduardo Casino schreef:
> Hi Bernd,
> If you are running under VMware, it is a 586+. Have you tested what
> happens when yoy try to execute it in a real 286 or earlier? My old
> 80186 died quite a few years ago. VMSMOUNT is useless in real
> hardware, but I can add a processor
people have called it
recently on this list :)
with best regards,
Bernd Blaauw
--
All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a
definitive record of customers, application performance, securi
Op 12-10-2011 23:06, Rugxulo schreef:
> Hi,
> Which FDISK version were you using? Are you trying to use FAT32 or what?
>
If all those other operating systems worked flawlessly then there should
be no issue, and I'd assume the disk was partitioned and formatted by
either some Linux program (P
Op 13-10-2011 19:16, Michelle Dupuis schreef:
> I'm switching my MSDOS usb key to FREEDOS now, and my fancy menu system
> (buit in config.sys) doesn't work under freedos (just scrolls right past
> during bootup).
> Is the menu feature not available in the freedos version of config.sys?
> Or does it
Op 13-10-2011 20:05, Michelle Dupuis schreef:
> and if I can add a question 4 to the list:
> 4. Can I load device drivers from autoexec.bat? (essentially moving my
> menus from config.sys to autoexec.bat)
> Thanks
Most drivers can be loaded from autoexec.bat and/or commandline
(runtime). It's not
Op 13-10-2011 21:44, Wayne Graves schreef:
> Unlike .exe's you can't set compatability on .com's
>
> I suspect sys.com just writes the boot block on the target device ? Any
> sugestions ?
> Thanks
Microsoft removed the 16bit compatibility layer on 64bit operating
systems, sorry. As we don't have
Op 14-10-2011 0:25, Bret Johnson schreef:
> Using my USB drivers, it is possible to make a bootable USB disk or
> manipulate partitions just using standard DOS tools (FORMAT, FDISK, SYS,
> etc.). You don't necessarily need Windows or *nix to do that. The drivers
> still have a long ways to go
Op 14-10-2011 0:55, Wayne Graves schreef:
> I can boot anything and I have a system in the corner that has 12 TB of
> disk on it which I can build anything on. I just want to know how to get
> a bootable USB up with freedos running and maybe this will do it, thanks.
The difficult way I used was us
Op 17-10-2011 11:00, Michael C. Robinson schreef:
> Guess I've been bouncing for about a week.
>
> So, will Freedos 1.1 come out by Christmas?
Earlier hopefully. I intended end of summer holiday, but there's still
some software changes I'm waiting for (kernel and install) , and some
changes I'd
Op 19-10-2011 0:33, Rugxulo schreef:
> BTW, call me naive, but does that above line even give you any UMB
> space?? If not (and NOEMS), why use EMM386 at all?? (Just use XMS.)
> :-/
On my real hardware, JEMM seems to have more succes initialising things
while various XMS drivers and/or FreeDOS k
Op 20-10-2011 7:27, Jack schreef:
> Note that all of the "bugfix" items listed above are not-long after the
> final update for FD-EMM386, meaning that Japheth likely inherited them,
> from his predecessors. So, FD-EMM386 cannot (A) handle a VCPI switch,
> (B) has DMA-buffer address problems, (C
Op 25-10-2011 17:24, Tom Ehlert schreef:
> there are no updates either ;)
sounds like a ROM DOS :)
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Op 28-10-2011 20:03, Mark Brown schreef:
> and thanks to those fixing the high memory and xms drivers so they're solid
> and stable:
> no more tumbling numbers on my notebook.
> and as regards "nobody uses them" below,
> the 1.0 and/or 1.1 test_3 distribution(s) definitely did use them.
> /F /MSG
>
Op 3-11-2011 21:05, Jack schreef:
> Absolutely UNBELIEVABLE to me that FLASH devices are used AT ALL in
> hard-disk replacements!! Last I knew, FLASH devices are writeable
> only about 10,000 times. That is a LOW number of writes for disks
> if one considers DIRECTORY updates that any DOS syst
Op 3-11-2011 20:56, mbbrut...@brutman.com schreef:
> For applications where fast access is required nothing can beat a
> FLASH based device. Part of the equation there involves unit life; if
> you use a FLASH based device in an environment with lots of writes
> then you expect to be replacing it o
Op 4-11-2011 2:25, Jack schreef:
> Re: the rest of your comments, I agree, SSD/FLASH/"whatever" hard
> disk replacements have their advantages, but at present, the cost
> of REGULAR hard disks makes SSDs a "niche" market only. Perhaps
> if SSD costs drop (a LOT!), and most such "reliability" issu
Op 6-11-2011 18:13, Eduardo Casino schreef:
> I've just released version 0.5 of VMSMOUNT, which adds partial LFN support.
Your release seems to work quite nice already, though it's not
idiot-proof yet (in other words, I found a few issues for a potential
0.6 release).
* uninstall doesn't coope
Op 6-11-2011 23:45, Eduardo Casino schreef:
> OK, with all the LFN support in place this was trivial and I've made a
> 0.5b release that adds support for lower case shares when /LFN is set.
Not entirely sure if the mangling part is necessary with such short
semi-valid 8.3 filenames, but your impr
Op 18-11-2011 23:10, Garrison Ricketson schreef:
> http://laurabride.com
This might be some suspicious link and/or spam, following the link
presents an OK button which potentially isn't that healthy to people's
Windows operating system and/or computer.
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Op 26-11-2011 18:32, nospam schreef:
> http://nanox-microwindows-nxlib-fltk-for-dos.googlecode.com/files/DILLODOS_beta2.zip
Hi Georg,
does this DOS port of DILLO make Arachne obsolete?
Also would using UPX (best mode) on the executable have any advantage?
Compression-wise it takes a while due t
Op 15-12-2011 18:33, Mark Brown schreef:
>> > As for other news, how is Freedos 1.1 coming along?
>
>>Do you need it badly?
> yes!
> will anyone please send me a copy of it?
It will be published when done, likely just before Christmas.
Current binary release is about 16MB but I'll have to add sour
one.
This FreeDOS 1.1 is but a mere shadow of all the work Jeremy Davis and
Blair Campbell put into previous distributions over the years, but we'll
get there :)
with best regards,
Bernd Blaauw
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