Hi,
If I want to delete/overwrite files from a script(batch), then either way,
it will interogate me:are you sure?y/n;
but I want the script to run unattended; is there a way to make it fully
'hands free'?, possibly with a redirection
away from the keyboard, or some such thing?
I think
Hi,
Has anyone gotten fdupdate to work with a 486? I lost the link to
fdupdate v0.55 and the instructions on how to use it in fdupdate
v0.54. If using a 486 is the problem because of a bug in the math
coprocessor or something similar, that would be nice to know.
I've noticed that I get
Hi Michael,
How about games made for the Tandy Color Computer 3 by Diecom Products?
That company is now defunct and has been for a very long time. You
can download disk images of Guantlet II. Is that really illegal?
As the company is defunct, it is unlikely that they will sue you.
But
Hi Aitor,
Eric, was the windows (partial) support ever
ported to the stable kernel? (maybe that's why).
That partial support is based on heavy patches it
seems... As said, the windows 386 mode support even
in the unstable kernel is not compiled in by default
because it is more experimental
Hi Mateusz,
Is it still possible to use FDUPDATE on FreeDOS 1.0 or to upgrade 1.0
to 1.1? I think FDUPDATE detects when you're running 1.0 and won't
update, but I'm not sure how it does this.
Yes, it is possible to use FDUPDATE to keep a 1.0 system up to date. However,
you won't be able
Hi Christian,
If you're waiting for further improvements to 2038 before you release
2038, then you're doing this wrong. [...] I'd strongly recommend
making 2038 available, and putting the few pending improvements in
2039.
The problem is that Eric holds back at least three necessary
Hi Robert,
1) ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/arcers/jam125sw.zip
JAM is a transparent hard disk compressor, which enlarges your disk
space. With the JAM you will forget about annoying messages like
'Insufficient disk space...' with no need to purchase a new hard disk.
It only
Hi Roberto, Mateusz,
About Freecom: I suppose that CVS version 1.34 2004/12/01 21:20:46 is
the same as SVN Revision 1067**
SVN gives numbers for the whole state, CVS gives numbers per file.
I think you can tell both SVN and CVS to show you the version of
everything which was current at
Hi Jim,
I disagree with your No, but you could say it is stable enough
statement. The kernel needs to work reliably. Today, we have two
branches of the FreeDOS kernel: 2036 stable, and 2037 devel
(unstable). That shouldn’t be ok, yet somehow we’ve convinced
ourselves this is acceptable.
Hi Jim,
The current numbering is that stable plus patches will be
2038 while unstable is 2037 (next unstable will be 2039)...
Both branches are based on kernel 2035 and for a while they
even both used 2035 as version number(s), unfortunately.
While it does not have a SF file release yet,
Hi Alex,
On Sun, 08 Mar 2009 16:20:40 +0100, I waved a wand and this message
magically appears in front of Eric Auer:
Indeed a very annoying bug in FreeCOM 0.84 but nobody has yet found
a way to predict WHEN it happens. If you can find a way to make it
happen at a more specific time than
Hi Blair, Christian,
IIRC chkdsk does not support FAT32 filesystems. This might be your issue.
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Christian Groessler fdos...@yahoo.de wrote:
When I run dosfsck c: it reports everything ok:
dosfsck 2.11.DOS, 15 Apr 2006, FAT32, LFN
c:: 4191 files, 6623/62597
Hi,
Now run debug jampat.deb.
-N JAM.SYS
-L 0
-E 2838 FD
-E 2C85 0A
-W 0
Writing 311E bytes.
-Q
You can also do:
debug jam.sys
e 2d85 0a
e 2938 fd
e 2ccf 00
w
q
This is shorter but also patches a JNZ which
Hi again,
debug jam.sys
e 2d85 0a
e 2938 fd
e 2ccf 00
w
q
After patching jam (change max version to 7.10 and allow
the freedos OEM fd and allow patching jam) I ran a trace
of JMOUNT in dosemu / FreeDOS 2038 FAT32... Apparently
you CANNOT use JMOUNT with FAT32-enabled kernels, so I
suggest
Hi Kurt,
...will v1.1 have on-board support for sata drives?
This would be so convenient.--kurt,
All FreeDOS versions use the BIOS for disk access,
S-ATA for harddisks is no problem even for a very
old version of FreeDOS :-). With free open source
drivers such as GCDROM, XGCDROM and UIDE you
Hi!
It seems that the sound blaster ISA and sound blaster 16 PCI
cards are the only ones that will work with freedos. Well,
This is not freedos specific. It depends on your games or
other software that you use for sound output, exclusively.
I have a soundmaker cadenza on my D845PEBT2
Hi Michael,
I have Warcraft I where I'd like to be able to play the sound.
The game itself does not support my sound card. Surely, dos
games aren't limited to the sound cards they were written for.
Does anybody have experience with the driver interface used
by that game? Maybe it does
Hi Kurt,
This might seem a bit off topic, but it's of general interest: In XP, you
can make an ISO image of a folder;
if you then burn that ISO image to the cd, using a true ISO burner, it is
not bootable, it is lacking the files
that would make it so. There are schemes to combine a floppy
Hi Michael,
Has anyone else run chkdsk on their Freedos C drive and gotten this
error? I have a 500 meg partition which is probably FAT16. I have
used Windows 98 to defrag another partition that I allow freedos to
access. Is the implementation of FAT in 98 and Freedos compatible?
Using
Hi Kurt,
FAQ www.delorie.com/djgpp/v2faq/faq18_9.html answers exactly that :-)
Basically it is as in normal hooking of interrupts but the FAQ also
mentions that you may want to disable disk swap for that handler.
The guide part www.delorie.com/djgpp/doc/ug/interrupts/hwirqs.html
also tells you
Hi!
Known problem, the 1.0 distro is obsolete and buggy ...
Feel free to make a list of bugs that should be fixed in 1.1 :-)
In the meantime, try http://rugxulog.googlepages.com/ - for
example most CD/DVD burning tools should let you use the 2.88MB
diskette image to make a bootable CD/DVD...
Hi Bernd, Jack,
Jack schreef:
If you update FreeDOS, in accordance with the update list
noted by Eric Auer, do consider adding the UIDE or UIDEJR
driver, also XMGR and RDISK if desired. They are avail-
able from http://johnson.tmfc.net/dos/driver.html, also
from other Internet sources
Hi DZ,
Anyone have any idea which PCI sound cards will work with with FreeDOS on
modern systems? Last I've read somewhere the modern motherboards have
changed drastically that it will no longer allow SoundBlaster or similar
clone cards to work correctly with Sound Blaster emulation.
Any
Hi D Z,
www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131232
There are no ISA slots available I'm afraid. I do have 2 PCI slots, have
tried the SB16 emulation with a Sound Blaster Live! Value PCI card but the
emulation test/diagnostics fails each time.
As far as I know, the SB Live!
Hi guys,
I agree here. A new GUI should not run exclusively on FreeDOS...
I think asking the FreeDOS (kernel) developers to provide technical
information about DOS, while not tying the program to FreeDOS...
I would recommend to program your GUI in a way which makes in run
on any DOS, using
Hi everybody,
There is a new sourceforge file release of the FreeDOS kernel:
Version 2038 is now available with OpenWatcom 8086 FAT16 and
FAT32 binaries and as source code download. No 386+ or Turbo C
binaries this time, but please email if you want / made those.
Bart is already working on
Hi David,
I have an old DOS application that I want to run with FreeDOS. The DOS
app uses a memory stick for storage and has a custom USB driver. The
You mean your DOS app also uses USB? Is it possible to put the
thing accessed by the DOS app on another controller than the
USB stick? Then
Hi D Z,
I tried that already. I got the EMM386 to load which is required for the
Sound Blaster drivers to load correctly in DOS, but it fails when I ran the
SBTEST exe. I already tried adjusting the the IRQ, Address, etc., nothing
I guess it is more useful to try the actual game ;-)
same
Hi Dos386,
Intel ICH
Pure AC97, does not attempt to support SB. Supported by
few modern DOS apps as AC97, not supported by old games.
ES1371/1373 AKA SB128PCI/SB16PCI, EMUxxx
(SB512/LiveAudigy), ... (MPXPLAY)
Supported by modern apps as AC97, comes with driver which
creates virtual SB,
Hi Ray, Bernd,
How was the bootdisk created?
The included bat.
The kernel download only includes the KERNEL itself and
the installer tool SYS. It does not include a SHELL,
so if you run SYS (or run the bat which runs sys) then
it will copy whatever version of command.com you already
have and
Hi Florian,
USBDOS device scan is part of install but should
only be done AFTER install, no USB devices used DURING install
USB support in FreeDOS?
The FreeDOS 1.0 FULL distro defaults to downloading various
proprietary but free USB drivers (which can hang because the
NIC and DHCP
Hi Dos386,
Such disks would have to be installed into DOS. The BIOS
never did handle CD/DVD units directly, thus SHCDX33D always
installs its units into DOS. However, the BIOS does handle
hard-disks, and DOS discovers how many hard-disks the BIOS
found during system boot. So, UIDE
Hi!
would be useful as fallback to have at least SOME access to your non-BIOS
disks
Why not the fastest SATA AHCI DMA ? Apparently the problem is not
inside UIDE ;-)
If your motorbike fails, the fallback is not a plane. It is a bicycle.
In other words, if for example a CF card only
Hi Michael,
yes using HX for some Windows programs can make sense but...
Maybe dos based Windows is dead. So what to do those of
us who like some program or need some program that requires
a dos based version of Microsoft Windows?
They probably use Wine in Linux ;-) Sorry for this thread
Hi Michael,
It isn't Firefox and so there isn't a filtering plugin for it that will
You could write one. Arachne takes dozens or maybe hundreds
of megabytes RAM less compared to Firefox. As you want to
use DOS for internet, you apparently want a SMALL browser.
Please remove Firefox from your
Hi!
needed to support some. If Dos based Windows is
used, Freedos is possibly being run on a computer
that has 128+ megs of RAM. There are a LOT of
old computers that have this much RAM.
And several operating systems that can run there ;-)
Freedos can ask, Are you on a Pentium, 486,
Hi Mike,
you are right that config / autoexec often differ from what
you are used to from MS DOS, among other reasons just because
we now have newer and other drivers :-).
CONFIG.SYS:
device=HIMEM.SYS
Try Himem.exe, or better Himemx.exe...
You also need a line DOS=HIGH,UMB
Hi!
DEVICE=C:\DEVS\RDOSUMB.COM #19 *
DEVICEHIGH=C:\DEVS\JEMMEX.EXE A20METHOD:FAST FRAME=E000 VERBOSE NOE801 NOE820
NORAM D=0 VCPI
DOS=UMB,HIGH
DEVICEHIGH=C:\DEVS\EMSDSK.EXE 4364 /c02
...
6 file(s)101,406 bytes
0 dir(s) 325,632 bytes free
Note the
Hi Aitor,
Users apparently don't want
technical details on the Freedos-user list however.
I don't think so: some want, some do not. The question is that
currently there's no way to know about it. So I am almost decided to
create that freedos-basic list, so that technical details can run
Hi MegaBrutal,
I have a boot record I wrote for my own OS that's not related to FreeDOS.
My boot code acts really strange - it gets error 9 from INT 13h, when
it tries to read from the floppy disk.
Error 9 says: data boundary error (attempted DMA across 64K boundary
or 80h sectors).
Hi Kurt,
to use djgpp, simply run hdpmi32; there is a way to remove the cwsdpmi and
insert hdpmi32 in the djgpp header.
Christian, I already tried running hdpmi32 first, even using the '-r'
switch, which makes it go tsr, and still got the
page fault error from the djgpp program
I remember
Hi Michael,
Right now, I am trying to install Windows for Workgroups 3.11. Is it
possible to use it with higher resolutions? For instance 1024x768 16
millions colors. Is the process straightforward???
If there are generic VESA drivers, it should be possible...?
Unfortunately, my
Hi Bonnie :-)
I run the dosemu/freedos package in a window on ubuntu
linux (8.10 Intrepid). I use Gnome desktop.
Basically it does what I need it to do except for one thing.
When ever I type in the dosemu window the window darkens for a
moment. This does not keep the window from
Hi Alain,
In fact this (http://www.georgpotthast.de/usb) is a full
USB driver for DOS, with both UHCI and OHCI.
It has drivers for Parallel and Serial devices, plus pendrive.
Unfortunately it is only free for personal use...
Actually there is a new FreeDOS OEM edition which is free
for
Hi Johnson,
PS: Have you tested the drivers from http://bretjohnson.us/ yet?
That one is more open source but only does UHCI USB 1.1. :-).
Finally someone did the job: Code USB programs with assembly language.
Well, 17 lines of Assembly and 5000 of C, who will ever be
able to understand
Hi Shane,
I read your suggestions about hunting that FreeCOM bug where it
stops running programs, sounds good :-) Did you find a clue yet?
Norton Text Search (ts.exe) prints about four characters a second
when FDAPM APMDOS is running. Setting FDAPM APMOFF fixes this. This
may also affect
Hi Christian,
Well, 17 lines of Assembly and 5000 of C,
It would interest me where he stated these numbers.
He did not. I just did unzip -p the-sources.zip *.a* | wc :-)
Who will ever be able to understand and update Georg's host driver?
Certainly not anyone except him, since it's
Hi Brad,
I've been trying to get FreeDOS to boot up from a floppy and have
been having horrible troubles with it. I downloaded the Odin floppy
image. I can get Bochs v 2.3.7 to boot up that image so I know that
it works. But when I use diskcopy to copy it to a real disk, I can
no longer
Hi Kurt,
concerning the page fault error and the tip from the djgpp faq, it
was right on the money! I was using a function which had unused
arguments,nevertheless specified; so I had declared three dummy pointers,
*and forgot to initialize them*;
Dummy me. Initialized all three to the same
Hi Garry,
you probably mean the old 1 diskette distro of FreeDOS?
Then I would recommend to try the newer diskette distro
on http://rugxulo.googlepages.com/ - you can also use
the first 1 or 2 disks, no need to fetch all three :-).
You are right that many things in FreeDOS use the same
option
Hi Shane, can you check whether HTMLHELP 1.06
actually fixes the problem? Maybe it only does
update the text but not the exe of htmlhelp...
It is also important that sources are online.
Possible KITTEN-B bug: HTMLHELP 1.05 hangs when NLSPATH set wrong.
Sat, 1 Aug 2009 23:35:50 -0700
I
Hi mc510/hotmail,
Hi, FreeDOS noob here. Grub boots FreeDOS, which puts me in my win98
partition. FreeDOS is installed in a different partition, but when FreeDOS
is running I have no access to the partition from which FreeDOS booted.
Help?
FreeDOS was installed from fdbasecd.iso
Hi Bob,
Some questions: Is that Fortran program running in DOS?
Do you print to paper or to a file? What is your printer
configuration in Ubuntu and in Dosemu? Does the small
print-out show all screen content? Which screen mode/s
do you use, text modes or graphics modes? EGA or VGA?
Eric
How
Hi JVP, thanks for testing the Bret Johnson USB drivers :-)
... usb mouse attached to my FreeBasic/FreeDos application
C:\Dos32\DosLFN.com
C:\Dos32\cwsdpmi.exe
If you run cwsdpmi like that, it will probably not
stay in RAM? Apps made with FreeBASIC will just load
cwsdpmi themselves while
Hi,
installed freedos base on an old dell(ten years);installed djgpp with rhide;
acted very buggy and refused to compile
even a hello world;
rebooted with 'himem' option, and now it compiles and executes. However, I
then tried a larger program with eight
functions, and it too, compiled and
Hi Robert,
...program calculates and displays a graph on the screen.
Okay I understand more of your problem in Ubuntu now...
If you use lp in Linux or copy ... prn in dosemu, the
latter will basically assume that you want to print a
plain text document. Lp might also support postscript
and
Hi Jack,
Re: using memory over 4-GB in DOS, the best way to AVOID many new
custom programs is to raise the capacity of XMS drivers...
1) A change to the XMS request which determines available memory,
with a change to the FreeDOS MEM program to display all such
memory. I believe
Hi, Roberto Perotti sends news about a new version of a text editor:
Eric Meyer has released a new version of his vDE word processor:
http://sites.google.com/site/vdeeditor/Home/vde-files/files-section/vde196.zip
Whats new :
-optimization and speed up
- now vde read and writhe .RTF files
Hi Jack,
1) Do not tell MEM about the extra memory, just tell it that you
have 3 GB as long as at least 3 GB are still available ...
This might materially confuse users, who expect MEM to report actual
available XMS memory. Since MEM is only reporting numbers to users
I see no reason
Hi Bernd,
Jack is right, pipeline based DVD burning saves a lot of space
for temp files. Of course you are also right - you cannot easily
put temp files on harddisk if the harddisk only has NTFS etc and
it would be asking a bit much to add another harddisk. Well, of
course DOS USB (storage)
Hi Jack,
No one is suggesting an API only for MEM! Also, my ideas about new
XMS commands are only for 64-GB memory, NOT for current XMS commands
Ah okay... So there would be a separate API, and separate
memory areas for XMS 2/3 and the new API then?
It is only necessary if you have tools
Hi Robert,
to find my GRAPHICS for DOS, check our list:
http://www.freedos.org/freedos/software/ - base - graphics
Maybe I should have mentioned the names graphpin, graph-hp
and graph-ps, as graphics is just a wrapper for the tree :-)
While you can potentially use
the POSTSCRIPT variant
Hi!
the moment, JEMMEX already is too fancy for many ancient DOS
games which use pre-VCPI DOS extenders, so it is good that
HIMEMX and JEMM386 are still separately available.
Also, isn't JEMM actually FreeDOS's memory manager of choice? I suppose
there was such a thing as FreeDOS EMM
Hi Gino!
I've been using FreeDOS for a while and it works great.
Nice :-)
I'd like to write an Intel HDA driver for SCI games (Sierra quests).
Ok, they work great under Dosbox, but I still prefer using plain DOS.
You could at least use dosemu :-p Much faster :-)
I consider myself a good
Hi!
It's strange. I've got 2 PC's with Intel HDA and MPXPLAY only works with 1.
A desktop with D915GEV mainboard: It works!
A laptop Dell Inspiron 6400: It doesn't work!
I think the first one is Intel ICH6 and the second one is ICH7 but I am not
sure what it means.
maybe the music
Hi Jack,
Ah okay... So there would be a separate API, and separate
memory areas for XMS 2/3 and the new API then?
Absolutely! Forgetting XMS V2.0 (only 64-MB), I am suggesting that
all XMS V3.0 requests for 4-GB remain as-is, using the first 4-GB of
memory. XMS V4.0 commands, if we
Hi Jack,
Note that the new apps will also have to use XMS 3 to get the
3-GB or similar that will be free in the first 4 GB because no
sane XMS 3 app will use much of those 4 GB... ;-)
I mean if you have some XMS 4 ramdisk then it should also
allow combined usage of XMS 3 and 4, otherwise it
Hi Bray,
I have an Atheros pci-x 802.11 wireless card in my Asus EEEpc laptop and
there is no driver available for the card! Does anyone have some links and
resources pertaining to driver/packet driver development for DOS? I'm not
looking for a quick fix, but a project!
Expect a big project
Hi everybody, Angelo Rosina writes about a BASIC for DOS,
forwarding some info from him :-) Should we add XST to our
freedos.org software collection and/or the distro? :-)
Eric
Since XST is compiled with DJGPP, it's hardware requirements are almost
the same of FreeBasic
FreeBasic (FB) and
Hi Christian, Marcos
I do not know how DOSLFN interacts with CHKDSK and whether
we are talking about errors created by DOSLFN alone and
detected by CHKDSK later or about errors created by some
effect of having DOSLFN loaded why CHKDSK runs but...
Having HIMEM and LBACACHE active helps a lot
Hi Roberto,
I am no expert for KEYB, but even if Aitor is too busy to
answer, I am sure somebody on freedos-user can help you :-)
Eric
Roberto iw2evk tiscali.it wrote:
I've written to Aitor Santamarino without result so I write you...
I want install keyb UK with CP858 (euro sign).
I tried
Hi Kurt,
www.virustotal.com/analisis/b97305ed784aa31390f07840b8d8fe578a473d8612693b1a255520b4d870e535-1181473738
already shows an analysis of the suspicious filetype dll file.
Executable files exist in lib/locale.so, plugins/ ssavers/ and
of course in the ndn Linux executable itself. Clamscan
Hi Phil,
hi -- I want to download odin7bin.zip burt have not found any site
that permits this in any language that I understand. == Can anybody
help ? -- phil
Odin? That seems to be a very old distro, which page still
recommends it? I would suggest that you use for example
the Rugxulo distro
Hi :-)
I could installed FreeDOS in my 256-mb flash drive, my PC's have
USB-emulation mode.
The problem was that I later installed GRUB in it and I could not re-install
FreeDOS because it was always looking for GRUB so I found a way to uninstall
it on the net:
$ dd if=/dev/zero
Hi Michael,
I picked up a packet driver for the D845PEBT2 built in nic, but
whether it's wget or lynx, trying to execute the application simply
causes the computer to reset.
Maybe it helps to tell emm386 to not use any UMB, or maybe
it helps to load no emm386 at all? As you say you are using
Hi Marcos,
Another idea: You can connect compact flash cards with
a purely mechanical adapter to IDE harddisk controllers.
Might give better performance and compatibility than a
scheme based on USB sticks :-). Initial setup might be
slightly tricky, but the same tricks as for USB sticks
will
Hi!
hi, we are migrating a dos application to samba servers and dosemu/FreeDOS
clients, the program need all files in upper case, with samba i can
Which program? If it is a DOS / Windows program, it should
be case-insensitive. This means it does not matter that
Linux uses the proper
Hi!
After installing FreeDOS on a FAT-32 partition, I attempted to boot
it in a couple of ways, each of which resulted in the message:
Error loading OS
Maybe your FAT partition is not marked active or you did not SYS it?
mbrfix (an open source program for NT/XP/etc.) reported cylinders
Hi Mateusz,
There is one very good reason: we don't have up-to-date packages...
To release a v1.1, we'd need to have a complete liste of all latest
FreeDOS packages.
See www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/fdupdate/
Many packages are outdated, and some are simply missing.
Hi Pat, Joe, Mateusz, Rugxulo, others,
I would suggest to keep this on-list for a bit longer,
but to switch to either the user or the devel list :-)
[Joe]
So, anyway, I'm excited about FreeDOS 1.1, and
I want to help get it out the door.
Thanks a lot! I think most needed at the moment is
Hi David,
you can dualboot with freedos and vista, but depending on
whether your vista is installed on a fat32 or a ntfs drive
you will have to use windows or linux tools to setup the
dual booting. DOS cannot mess around with ntfs drives...
If you burn ISO to CD/DVD, the RW just lets you re-use
Hi Marcos,
in case you used an USB mouse with BIOS PS/2 over USB support:
Try a PS/2 mouse or a DOS USB driver instead of BIOS legacy.
4. Holding down keyboard keys while screen refreshes, as
suggested by Larry (doc...@yahoo.com): shift, ctrl and alt
keys cut screen refreshing
Hi Marcos,
thanks for the in-depth measurements :-)
1 FDAPM APMDOS + IDLEHALT=1 11 sec
2 FDAPM ADV:REG + IDLEHALT=1 6 sec
3 FDAPM APMDOS 6 sec
4IDLEHALT=1 6 sec
5 FDAPM ADV:REG
Hi!
I've never used FreeDOS before...
Is it possible to log into a headless FreeDOS box from Linux?
I'm considering setting up an electronic workbench PC with FreeDOS.
Interesting :-) DOS is single tasking, so you cannot easily run
a telnet or ssh server and let that start a login shell
Hi! Attempting to translate this... Does it mean an old book
about MS DOS is now online as PDF? Is that an official version?
Eric
= ru.dos (x:xxx/xxx)
==
Msg : 431 of 431
From : Alexander Karmanov
Hi Dave :-)
I'd like to be able to detect that the power button on the computer
has been pressed while running freedos. (Also this would apply to the
powerdown event from the QEMU emulator)
I know there is a power management utility from Eric but it doesn't
seem to monitor for the
Hi, yes, fdbasecd is enough. Actually everything which boots DOS
at all is enough, as you already have the BIOS update tool and
the new BIOS at another location. However, you have to put those
files on a FAT partition or floppy or similar, because DOS does
not support NTFS or USB out of the box.
Hi Vitali,
actually, it is 25 x 80 now - I've tested inside text editor.
Looks like I forgot how DOS look like, especially on the laptop's screen -
letters are quite
stretched in vertical direction (could it be EGA text mode: 8x14 pixels
640x350,
but not VGA mode: 9×16 pixels 720×400 ?)
Hi Blair, Karen,
is the doscdroast suite still around? It was easier to use
than all those command line things like mkisofs and cdrecord.
Eric :-)
PS: It also came with a number of 3rd party drivers afair.
...or DVD either for that matter?
I have come across a few for creating iso images,
Hi Mark,
Do any of the FreeDOS iso images contain enough USB
All ISOs are several years old as far as I remember.
The newest drivers are from Bret Johnson, 1/2010:
http://bretjohnson.us/
You can use a floppy distro such as the Rugxulo one:
http://sites.google.com/site/rugxulo/
You can
Hi Geraldo,
while we can't push any much modern idea would
be possible to implement a thread facility in FD
kernel using protothread http://www.sics.se/~adam/pt/ ?
it would allow many interesting things
or at least, we could use on FD install to
unzip packages in parallel?
For unzipping
Hi Karen,
it can take say two or three screen readers to equal the
functionality of one Dos based one.
Interesting, what makes the DOS ones so user friendly?
screen readers for windows
are in the dictionary for richly problematical.
In what way? I remember them often being commercial
Hi Karen,
no idea whether price effects quality in screen readers, but
of course it would be bad to spend a lot for a mediocre tool.
About Ubuntu: I know that most people use the fancy Gnome
graphics but as any Linux, Ubuntu also has many programs
which work in plain text mode, which should be
Hi Karen,
while I have not used any screen reader, I have used both
text to speech (to announce incoming mail) and written a
tool to forward an extract of a DOS or Linux text screen
to a 4 by 20 LCD display, navigated by buttons on the LCD.
The latter arguably has some similarity to a
Hi Liam,
to multitask DOS apps which use direct hardware access,
you have to use vm8086 mode of the 386 and newer CPUs.
Many apps have this problem, only few use only the DOS
kernel to access hardware. Many at least also use BIOS.
You could wrap something around kernel and BIOS to keep
track of
Hi all, as you may know, the free PG text viewer
was originally inspired by a shareware tool called
LIST. Now I got the word that the author of that
tool has died in the end of last year:
www.petaluma360.com/article/20100107/COMMUNITY/100109636
Vernon D. Buerg
Business owner
Published:
Hi Marcos,
FDISK /MBR
FORMAT C: /S /U
Win98? Default BPB *FAT1x* 1024 sectors/FAT, 512 root size, FAT32 Forced.
Access Denied! LOCK problem? Aborting.
[Error 55]
With 1024 sectors per FAT you would have 256*1024
clusters, very im-plausible. Remember that FORMAT
gets
Hi Marcos,
I had a (partial) success: formatted a 4 GB disk which previously
also produced the error message Boot sector contents
implausible, disk not yet FAT formatted, etc., etc.
It now has one 2 GB partition, and it boots normally.
I forgot to mention - you can use the /D option of
Hi Kurt,
as Robert already explained, you probably used command.com DIR
in one case and cmd,exe DIR in the other case. Still it would
be interesting to see an example of both styles, can you cut
and paste some short examples? No attached files please, just
paste the text as a quotation into your
Hi Alain, Eric,
FreeDOS does not need anything from the Win98 partition to boot.
The requisites are:
1) it must boot from a primary partition
2) the partition needs to be active.
Not really... Because you use GRUB, it is enough if you have
a valid boot sector in a FILE. Our SYS can make
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