Re: [Freedos-user] HTGet rewrite for mTCP

2011-07-25 Thread Mike Eriksen
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 2:24 AM, Michael B. Brutman mbbrut...@brutman.com wrote: On 7/25/2011 6:52 PM, Bernd Blaauw wrote: Thanks for creating this. It means you're pretty close to a basic WGET, and also reminds me why I never liked HTGET: no support for FTP and REDIRECT/MOVED. URL parsing

Re: [Freedos-user] Packet Driver

2011-07-18 Thread Mike Eriksen
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 7:10 PM, Thomas D. Dean tomd...@speakeasy.org wrote: On Mon, 2011-07-18 at 10:03 -0700, Ralf A. Quint wrote: At 09:00 AM 7/18/2011, Karen Lewellen wrote: The wireless network uses MAC address control. That's a complete waste of time. Every IP packet includes the

Re: [Freedos-user] Packet Driver

2011-07-18 Thread Mike Eriksen
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 7:32 PM, Thomas D. Dean tomd...@speakeasy.org wrote: On Mon, 2011-07-18 at 19:16 +0200, Mike Eriksen wrote: The network is in a semi-remote location - no kids!  There is only one other wireless network I can detect, with a marginal signal level. The machine

Re: [Freedos-user] Thanks

2011-06-22 Thread Mike Eriksen
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 2:56 AM, Michael B. Brutman mbbrut...@brutman.com wrote: On 6/22/2011 9:15 AM, Marcos Favero Florence de Barros wrote: Hi Mike, Thanks for mTCP! I experimented with it yesterday for the first time, and it took me just 15 minutes to get started, in spite of my near

Re: [Freedos-user] Licensing issues

2011-06-07 Thread Mike Eriksen
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 8:43 PM, Bernd Blaauw bbla...@home.nl wrote: The problem ofcourse is getting a more powerful/modern operating system on a internet-connected yet stand-alone machine. Resorting to making USB sticks bootable (any 100% way to do so?) and testing them, or getting SATA

Re: [Freedos-user] Why I use FreeDOS

2011-06-07 Thread Mike Eriksen
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 9:11 PM, Robert Riebisch r...@bttr-software.de wrote: Mike Eriksen wrote: Graphics or X11? I'd be surprised about GUI stuff. Sure, I've tried BasicLinux and DamnSmallLinux, even briefly TinyCore, but they all seem to be too minimal or have other issues. I'm not saying

Re: [Freedos-user] Why I use FreeDOS

2011-06-05 Thread Mike Eriksen
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 6:10 PM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Mike Eriksen thinstation.m...@gmail.com wrote: I think that FreeDOS is a funny project and I like it. On rare occasions I need it for BIOS upgrade on Linux boxes. But frankly unless you

Re: [Freedos-user] Why I use FreeDOS

2011-06-05 Thread Mike Eriksen
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 11:51 PM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Mike Eriksen thinstation.m...@gmail.com wrote: Neither XP nor light Linuxes typically run well (if at all) in even 128 MB of RAM, so saying 20 years is a bit of an exaggeration, even 10

Re: [Freedos-user] Add folder and files to ISO image

2011-04-11 Thread Mike Eriksen
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 9:29 AM, spacemarc spacem...@gmail.com wrote: hi users, I need to run a .exe app (to upgrade firmware) when FreeDos is booted. I edited the fdfullcd.iso image with IsoMaster, added my folder and files (not in root directory), rebuilded the FreeDos ISO and remastered on

Re: [Freedos-user] Large drives with 4k sectors presenting as 512b?

2011-04-10 Thread Mike Eriksen
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 11:55 PM, Jack gykazequ...@earthlink.net wrote: A REAL BUS, you say??   If so, then explain to me why, on so many Intel-based systems, there are so many PCI BRIDGES!!   If it were a real bus, there would be only ONE bus, NOT so many bridges to yet-another set of wires

Re: [Freedos-user] Connecting FreeDOS to a SMB share

2011-01-17 Thread Mike Eriksen
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 9:30 PM, mbbrut...@brutman.com wrote: Quoting Eric Auer e.a...@jpberlin.de: [CUT] If most NAS boxes do HTTP, is this the reason/motivation I need to get wget done? +1! Mike -- Protect Your

Re: [Freedos-user] Connecting FreeDOS to a SMB share

2011-01-13 Thread Mike Eriksen
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 8:38 PM, Santiago Almenara almen...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! I have set up my FreeDOS PC and everthing is working just fine except for the audio (ok I pray to God someday there will be a way to play DOS games with sound under plain DOS) Now I want to connect this PC to a

Re: [Freedos-user] Dhcp

2011-01-12 Thread Mike Eriksen
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 4:00 PM, James Collins james.collin...@yahoo.com wrote: Hello, When I installed freedos, I have a MacBook pro running Mac os x snow leopard, the install got hung up on dhcp configuration. I tried several times where I entered the settings manually edited the

Re: [Freedos-user] Dhcp

2011-01-12 Thread Mike Eriksen
used it once last summer so I'm not experienced, but at that time it was trivial. Just read the docs. Mike I have to read the files that came with mTCP, Thanks again, any help with setting this up would be great. Sent from my iPhone On Jan 12, 2011, at 10:18 AM, Mike Eriksen thinstation.m

Re: [Freedos-user] Dhcp

2011-01-12 Thread Mike Eriksen
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 9:58 PM, Karen Lewellen klewel...@shellworld.net wrote: hi! Thanks for this as it answers the usb question I posed a while back. Karen On Wed, 12 Jan 2011, Rugxulo wrote: Hi, On 1/12/11, James Collins james.collin...@yahoo.com wrote: The part of the email that

Re: [Freedos-user] boot floppy

2010-12-17 Thread Mike Eriksen
On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 4:36 AM, Felix Miata mrma...@earthlink.net wrote: Anyone know why there's no simple bootable floppy image available in the downloads section of http://www.freedos.org/freedos/files/, one that could format and/or sys C:? Really? What does the very first line of that page

Re: [Freedos-user] Help: USB drivers for USB mass storage devices

2010-08-23 Thread Mike Eriksen
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Lee Eric openlinuxsou...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Is there any good USB drivers for USB mass storage like USB flash disk? I hope the driver can support USB 2.0. http://www.freedos.org/freedos/news/newsitem/149.html I can't get it to work with VIA chip sets, but

Re: [Freedos-user] Recommondation of TCP/IP stack, DHCP client

2010-08-07 Thread Mike Eriksen
On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 3:22 AM, Someone plu...@robinson-west.com wrote: I question whether TCP/IP is the best way to go in a DOS environment. That depend on your needs. Been a member of the Thinstation Linux thin client team, I have all the lightweight Linux I could wish. My original need came

Re: [Freedos-user] Balder: Can't move system files into \fdos

2010-08-05 Thread Mike Eriksen
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Tom Ehlert t...@drivesnapshot.de wrote: kernel.sys Tom Thank you for your answer, but I'm afraid you have to spell it out. There is no kernel.sys in the Balder image - at least not any that can be seen by a ls -al or find. the 'at least' part is important.

[Freedos-user] Recommondatipn of TCP/IP stack, DHCP client

2010-08-05 Thread Mike Eriksen
I have had great fun the last couple of day remembering DOS and enjoying the progress FD has made to plain old DOS. So far I have a boot floppy with support for both ATA and SATA CD-ROM and USB sticks. Very satisfying. But more wants more and now I try to get networked. I followed this guide:

Re: [Freedos-user] Recommondatipn of TCP/IP stack, DHCP client

2010-08-05 Thread Mike Eriksen
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 9:47 PM, Robert Riebisch r...@bttr-software.de wrote: Mike Eriksen wrote: But more wants more and now I try to get networked. I followed this guide: http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/freedos/index.php?title=Networking_FreeDOS_-_NDIS_driver_installation so now I

Re: [Freedos-user] Recommondatipn of TCP/IP stack, DHCP client

2010-08-05 Thread Mike Eriksen
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 11:50 PM, Willi Wasser wiw...@web.de wrote: E . . .  first i don't quite understand why you need an NDIS(2) driver _and_ a packet driver? A packet driver suitable for your network card allone should already do the job. Neither do I, but I must admit it's 15-20