Not booting from USB but reading FLASH on USB as a drive letter like a
floppy.
I do it all the time. I read the camera flash and play the movies and
look at pictures
on flash. Flash is usually drive E: Unfornunately you can only read one
flash
at a time unless you can run DUSE which only
On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 5:44 PM, Thomas Mueller mueller6...@twc.com wrote:
First concern is making FreeDOS bootable, preferably with Syslinux. SYS.COM
didn't work,
even made the FAT32 file system unreadable. I need to save the first MB by
dd from FreeBSD
so as to be able to dd back
Yes, this would be cool indeed. Any volunteers? :)
In fact, we almost have such 1.11 distro: all_cd is pretty much working,
only requires a 'smart' installer (like the one we had in 1.0 or 1.1),
and maybe a downgrade of FDISK (if confirmed that the version is causing
the vbox
Hi,
want to keep this simple as it does not relate to my own computer needs.
I have only two questions.
first, am I correct that one can boot freedos from a USB stick? Say with
an off the shelf sort of laptop?
second, am I correct that if one burns the latest copy of freedos to a cd
or
from Eddie Anderson and my previous post:
Thomas Mueller wrote:
Many motherboards nowadays have a single PS/2 port than can be used for a
mouse or keyboard but not both simultaneously.
Interesting. I did not know that.
I know that from frequenting tigerdirect.com , also motherboard
from Eric Auer:
As you mention in another mail that this is about wireless network:
I am not aware of any new drivers for DOS for wireless network USB
sticks, extension cards or similar. However, you could connect your
laptop with a short network cable to a small wireless hub or similar.
from dmccunney:
Mister, you're a better man than I.
I migrated to Windows and Linux long ago. There are still a few old
DOS apps I use, and I'm currently playing with a fork of DOSBox called
vDos under 64 bit Windows to run them. I play with FreeDOS for fun
and to keep my hand in. I
from Rugxulo:
One of the big problems (not counting HTML5 or Javascript or Flash) is
HTTPS. Not just for DOS but for any OS that isn't top tier (big three:
Mac, Win, Linux).
It has recently come to my attention that many popular websites are
now requiring it, which makes it very hard to
from Rugxulo:
Light-weight? First of all, Linux (and similarly Windows and Mac)
don't target older machines. To them, an old machine is i686 with 256
MB of RAM, and even that is too old for most distros. The bare
minimum (for now) seems to be a Pentium 4, and that won't be supported
forever.
The last version of Lynx that I could find
a DOS version of was 2.8.5 .
Do you have any later version ? Where did you
get it ?
Regards
JAS
Latest Lynx I could find compiled for DOS was 2.8.5, 32-bit:
http://www.rahul.net/dkaufman/
I formerly used it, even for e-commerce though not for
from Dale E Sterner and dmccunney:
Qpro 3 works great. I hate to mess with sucess. Sometimes the new version
isn't as good as the old - it happens.
As long as QPro 3 does what you need from a spreadsheet, splendid.
Most of us upgrade to get things the current versions of what we run
from Rugxulo:
I know you've mentioned Linux and FreeBSD. Have you not tried FreeDOS under
QEMU, VirtualBox, or Bochs?
I've never used any of these emulators so far.
Now I can boot FreeDOS with Syslinux from USB stick, either with XMGR.SYS (menu
option 3) or without drivers (option 4).
First
There is a free XServer and Client for DOS: Nano-X which I ported to DOS:
https://code.google.com/p/nanox-microwindows-nxlib-fltk-for-dos/
Since programming on the X11 level is not common today, you rather use
GTK or Qt, I also ported the FLTK GUI to DOS. This GUI has far more features
than
from dmccunney and Ralf Quint:
You may want to look at vDOS instead. vDOS is a fork of DOSBox,
specifically intended to run character mode DOS business apps on
Windows. See https://sourceforge.net/projects/vdos/
+1 vDOS is a much better choice than DOSBox if you do not intend to run
On 1/29/2015 9:24 PM, Michael Brutman wrote:
Let's think about this critically. Is somebody really going to use a
personal computer or a virtual machine running DOS to perform the
functions of an alarm clock in the year 2015?
Well, if you look at everything this way, you could ask why
from Guillem:
Hello,
I am currently considering the possibility of dualbooting my Windows computer
with FreeDOS. I have the resources to do so (FreeDOS installation CD image
which I can burn to a flashdrive, 512mb unallocated space on my
main drive which I will make a FAT32 partition on,
from Bertho Grandpied:
Regarding the next FreeDOS 1.2 and possible later 1.x releases,
I'd like to see the kernel upgraded to supporting large sector
sizes, rather than hear fantasies about '32 bit FreeDOS' !
As far as the 16-bitty-FreeDOS kernel is concerned,
it's been clearly stated that
from dmccunney:
See http://oldcomputers.net/gridpad.html
But since it came with MSDOS 3.3 built in, the question is why you
would need FreeDOS.
Thanks for the link, it was interesting out of curiosity, but of course nobody
would pay $2370 nowadays for something like that.
Tablet sounded
I remember using IBM's Tiny Editor, 16-bit for DOS and OS/2, in DR-DOS 7.03,
not open source.
Tiny Editor was useful on IBM OS/2 installation floppies because of tiny size,
could edit up to about 350 KB file or a little larger, more in OS/2 1.x.
Using elvis 2.2, I was able to view and edit
I see a subject line of No subject; I must have forgotten to copy the
intended subject line.
Going back to 2001, I used Enhanced Editor (EPM) in OS/2 Warp 4, but was forced
off this editor cold-turkey when the system crashed sometime during the
single-digit days of April 2001.
CHKDSK,
from Bob:
Does anyone know if Freedos would work on a GridPad 1910?
For those that don't know this is a PC/XT tablet computer. 10 Meg hard
drive in this one. No floppy, so install will be interesting.
How do you transfer data to GridPad 1910?
Surely there would be no USB or CD, and hard
Excerpt from Eric Auer:
Hi Karen,
What discouraged me from using freedos was
first the for legacy games use only, suggestion on the site,
That probably was a while ago: Now I would say this is more
the target audience of dosbox, in particular for Windows.
and second, the lack of
I don't think any motherboard has any DOS, Windows or other OS, though IBM
computers back in the 1980s came with ROM BASIC.
I have motherboard from MSI; now I am scared away from Asus, though perhaps the
newer, UEFI-equipped motherboards would be OK.
But there is also ASRock. I have no actual
On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 11:44 AM, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com
wrote:
http://copy.sh/v86/?profile=freedos
__
Dennis
https://plus.google.com/u/0/105128793974319004519
This is interesting, not only for FreeDOS, but for other possible disk images I
can find or produce!
I briefly
Excerpt from Eric Auer:
High Definition Audio controllers are currently not supported.
By the way:
I think it works like these stupid win printers; it waits for
windows to start it up. After all dos is dead isn't it - ha.
I will have to search for this dossound. It might be
Sad to see UIDE/XIDE switching to closed-source, undermining my interest in
FreeDOS for anything beyond low-level access to hardware and spreadsheets with
Quattro Pro 5 for DOS (already migrating to Gnumeric).
This is the first I've heard about any feud between Rugxulo and Jack Ellis. I
don't
Hi Eric,
If Jack Ellis has switched open-source UIDE to closed-source XIDE, what will be
for FreeDOS 1.2 or 2.0?
I believe FreeDOS 1.2 or 2.0 has to be open-source?
I was never able to read a CD or DVD on new computer, SATA drive;
all I'd get was the title, but file directory never
On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 3:32 AM, jubalh jub...@openmailbox.org wrote, and
Rugxulo responded:
Yesterday I installed FreeDOS for the first time.
I used the latest version and did a full install because i want to
have all software.
The full release of FreeDOS 1.1 does not have all
On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 6:14 PM, Thomas Mueller mueller6...@twc.com wrote,
and Rugxulo responded:
I used elvis in DR-DOS 7.03 and FreeDOS, but elvis hasn't been updated
since 2.2_0.
I tried vim (7.0?) in DOS, had difficulty with more than one file at a
time, now use vi which is nvi
from Louis Santillan:
Will you 1) be moving your project hosting and 2) porting to DJGPP 2.05?
You mean DJGPP is up to 2.05?
I went to their website, and current version was 2.03. I remember there was a
2.04 beta, but never heard of DJGPP 2.05.
www.delorie.com/djgpp/
Tom
from Marc LaPierre:
> Does FreeDOS support USB ports?
Sort of. I believe USB support is from the BIOS or UEFI.
I believe USB keyboards are OK, not sure about USB mice.
My experience with USB sticks in FreeDOS is that they are treated as fixed
disks: must be present at boot, and FreeDOS won't
On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 2:53 PM, Rugxulo wrote:
> In case it hasn't already been made obvious, this is a warning for
> inexperienced users who (surprise!) would rather NOT wipe out their existing
> OS and data if all they want to do is play around and experiment with DOS.
>
> Using syslinux I could set up a bootable CD that does boot FreeDOS with
> UEFI. During boot a disk image of FreeDOS would be loaded into a memdisk and
> run from there. Don't know if anyone would be interested to use that though.
> Georg
How do you prepare such a disk image of FreeDOS?
I
Excerpt from Eric Auer:
> Absolutely NOT TRUE! "V86" mode was created by Intel to provide a
> way of (a) running 16-bit programs on 32-bit systems, (B) providing
> protection for the system from such programs. EMS hardware is NOT
> "simulated" but is REQUIRED to access extended memory, which
On the issue of what to do with a preexisting MBR on installation target, my
installation target would be a USB stick, or I could possibly use an old 1.2 GB
IDE hard drive in a Sabrent enclosure with USB 2.0.
So then I would not worry about overwriting the MBR, though I would want to be
sure
Regarding packages to be dropped for failing LSM verification, I have some
comments.
I see ZOO listed in FreeBSD ports and NetBSD pkgsrc, open-source, but may be
very little-used nowadays.
PACIFICC is probably very outdated now, I never heard of TPPATCH and don't find
it in NetBSD pkgsrc or
> Well, FDI Preview 17 is not out yet. But, I though I would tell you about a
> new feature for the Power Users. The USB stick versions will contain a
> command line utility to recreate the entire FDI Build environment. So, all you
> FreeDOS hackers out there can build your own personal
from Don Flowers:
> I use a custom kernel and found that on the USB image the system files are
> hidden and read only. I used ATTRIB -R -S -H and then SYS with no problem.
I thought SYS knew the system files were hidden and read-only, as was also true
with MS-DOS.
Do I just run ATTRIB -R -S -H
from Don Flowers:
> There is a newer version of UMBPCI available which works with many of the
> 2012-2015 PCs (including my Acer E5-571), This provides an alternative UMB
> configuration for those PCs which cannot handle the EMS drivers.
> http://www.uwe-sieber.de/umbpci_e.html
I can't say
> Yes, that would be nice. But, time is scarce lately. :-)
> Lets not forget. You could build the FDI install media from scratch to any
> size
> you wish.
> I really need to put that in the github wiki and do a series of FDI hacking
> videos
> to cover all the basic tweaks and enhancements
I see your (Jerome Shidel) list of packages, BASE and ALL, no need to quote the
list.
I think there is only one web browser, Dillo?
Are others available as add-ons: Lynx, Links-GUI, Arachne? I can't think of
any other current or recent web browsers for DOS.
This so far is mainly a matter of
> On 21 July Eric Auer said:
> > indeed I am trying to motivate people to use TLS/SSL ;-)
> > There must be SOME browsers for DOS which can handle it!
> You talk as if you know for sure there is one.
> Is this the case ?
> I did look at Mikulas' Links before Rugxulo
> mentioned it in this
from Jose Antonio Senna:
> On 26 july, Thomas Mueller said:
> > ...(I) also have run Links with graphics
> > in DOS, but that was years back.
> Do you remember on what machine you did this ?
> > I used Doug Kaufman's DOS port of Lynx for
> > online commerce but
from dmccunney:
> And sometimes it's correct advice. The computer world changes with
> enormous rapidity, and one area where change is fastest is web
> browsing. These days, the push is to support HTML5, and CSS3, with
> current JavaScript. HTML5 is a big push because the keyword
> makes it
> That brings back memories. Back in the day, there was discussion of
> which *brand* of floppies to use, if you wanted to write something to
> floppy, put it on a shelf, and be able to read it again 5 years from
> now. At the time, the "gold standard" was Dysan. Floppy disk media
> varied in
> I was asked why I cannot put FreeDOS on a floppy. Here is the reason. I
> just tried another floppy disk that I found. It is original from before
> 1995, so it may be broken. I can try to check on my 486 once it is up
> and running, but for now this is what I get on Linux when I put the disk
>
from Eric Auer:
> > - I have just managed to find a Disney Sound Source on eBay, how
> > compatible is FreeDOS with MS-DOS drivers? I hope it would work on
> > FreeDOS...
> There are no real DOS sound DRIVERS on most systems:
>
> Just programs to init the sound hardware and driver
> libraries
from Dennis Fenton:
> After some research I decided FreeDOS would be a good replacement for
> MS-DOS 6.22 on an old 486 I'm playing with.
> I downloaded and burned to CD the iso. I also downloaded the boot
> floppy disk image because the old 486 will not boot from the external
> SCSI CD drive.
>
from Dale Sterner:
> On Ebay I purchased a cd with unreleased Corel dos
> software. There would have been a 5.6 version had it been
> released. Some woman got it from a boyfriend who
> worked for Corel and then sold it on Ebay for about $150.
> I was high bid.
Eric Auer:
Hi Dale,
> is
> I have Qpro 5.6 but haven't used it yet. Still using version 3
> The macros are powerful and a lot earier to use than
> Excel. Version 5.6 is said to have a solver built in
> like TK solver. One of these days I'll find out.
> cheers
> DS
Last Qpro version for DOS was 5. Was there a 5.6? DOS
from dmccunney:
> On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 5:22 PM, Thomas Mueller <mueller6...@twc.com> wrote:
> > It seemed strange that a version of Quattro Pro following 5 would be 5.6 as
> > opposed to 5.1 or 5.5.
> Versions are frequently skipped when software is release
from Ralf Quint:
>
> On 8/13/2017 4:56 PM, Dale E Sterner wrote:
> > New cameras are using a new format that I can't read.
> > I can read FAT 16 & FAT 32. Web search said that
> > they are using FAT 64. FDISK doesn't even detect it.
> > SD chips go undetected with this new format.
> As Dennis
from dmccunney:
> On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 5:04 PM, Thomas Mueller <mueller6...@twc.com> wrote:
> How busy are those eCS lists on Yahoogroups?
> Note that Verizon has acquired Yahoo and plans to rebrand it. It
> already owned AOL. It has informed Verizon email
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
> Thanks for replying.
> After this, I won't use USBASPI on FreeDOS.
> How can I use a USB mass storage that is formatted FAT16 or FAT32 on
> FreeDOS with USBDOS?
> Best regards,
> Ercan
If your BIOS or UEFI recognizes USB mass storage, then FreeDOS should recognize
it if it is in
> I find that your MS dos 7.1 has been doing a little better
> than FREEDOS. Jemmex sometimes hangs up.
> Corel made great DOS software. I use their Qpro
> to do my taxes. I fill in the blanks and it calclates my tax.
> cheers
> DS
I too used Borland Quattro Pro for DOS, through v5, to
> > Felix Miata composed on 2017-04-24 23:07 (UTC-0400):...
> >> OS/2 needed the upgrade to MCP that eCS incorporated, and Dani's 506, DASD
> >> and ATAPI drivers to run on hardware that wasn't perfectly sync'd up to
> >> that in the PC hardware IBM was selling, or even when it did
> > I went
from dmccunney:
> dmccunney composed on 2017-04-23 17:52 (UTC-0400):
> > Versions are frequently skipped when software is released. Remember
> > Dale said this was *unreleased* software. (I don't recall offhand
> > whether there was an actual Quattro 5.5 release.)
> QPro 5.5 was
> Thomas Mueller composed on 2017-04-25 02:07 (UTC):
> > I ran Quattro Pro through 5 in OS/2 Warp 3 and 4 until that final OS/2 crash
> > in the single-digit days of April 2001.
> > OS/2 froze, did not dismount cleanly. On reboot, CHKDSK, run automatically,
> > ran am
from Jiri Wackermann:
I'm not an active user of FreeDOS, so I'm only
> a listener on this channel, just for curiosity.
> Regarding 'apropos' and 'whatis' and their relatives:
> these commands are related to manual pages, it's all
> Unix philosophy. If you have a Linux around, try
> man
From: "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6...@twc.com>
> I find that your MS dos 7.1 has been doing a little better
> than FREEDOS. Jemmex sometimes hangs up.
> Corel made great DOS software. I use their Qpro
> to do my taxes. I fill in the blanks and it calclates my tax.
>
From: "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6...@twc.com>
> I have Qpro 5.6 but haven't used it yet. Still using version 3
> The macros are powerful and a lot earier to use than
> Excel. Version 5.6 is said to have a solver built in
> like TK solver. One of these days I'll find ou
From: "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6...@twc.com>
from Dale Sterner:
> On Ebay I purchased a cd with unreleased Corel dos
> software. There would have been a 5.6 version had it been
> released. Some woman got it from a boyfriend who
> worked for Corel and then sold it
From: "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6...@twc.com>
from dmccunney:
> dmccunney composed on 2017-04-23 17:52 (UTC-0400):
> > Versions are frequently skipped when software is released. Remember
> > Dale said this was *unreleased* software. (I don't recall offhand
From: "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6...@twc.com>
> Thomas Mueller composed on 2017-04-25 02:07 (UTC):
> > I ran Quattro Pro through 5 in OS/2 Warp 3 and 4 until that final OS/2
crash
> > in the single-digit days of April 2001.
> > OS/2 froze, did not dism
From: "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6...@twc.com>
from dmccunney:
> On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 5:22 PM, Thomas Mueller <mueller6...@twc.com> wrote:
> > It seemed strange that a version of Quattro Pro following 5 would be 5.6 as
opposed to 5.1 or 5.5.
> Versions ar
From: "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6...@twc.com>
from Dennis Fenton:
> After some research I decided FreeDOS would be a good replacement for
> MS-DOS 6.22 on an old 486 I'm playing with.
> I downloaded and burned to CD the iso. I also downloaded the boot
> floppy di
From: "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6...@twc.com>
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 d
From: "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6...@twc.com>
> > Felix Miata composed on 2017-04-24 23:07 (UTC-0400):...
> >> OS/2 needed the upgrade to MCP that eCS incorporated, and Dani's 506, DASD
> >> and ATAPI drivers to run on hardware that wasn't perfectly sync'
From: "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6...@twc.com>
from dmccunney:
> On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 5:04 PM, Thomas Mueller <mueller6...@twc.com> wrote:
> How busy are those eCS lists on Yahoogroups?
> Note that Verizon has acquired Yahoo and plans to rebrand it. It
> a
From: "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6...@twc.com>
> Thanks for replying.
> After this, I won't use USBASPI on FreeDOS.
> How can I use a USB mass storage that is formatted FAT16 or FAT32 on
> FreeDOS with USBDOS?
> Best regards,
> Ercan
If your BIOS o
From: "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6...@twc.com>
from Jose Antonio Senna:
> On 26 july, Thomas Mueller said:
> > ...(I) also have run Links with graphics
> > in DOS, but that was years back.
> Do you remember on what machine you did this ?
> >
From: "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6...@twc.com>
> I was asked why I cannot put FreeDOS on a floppy. Here is the reason. I
> just tried another floppy disk that I found. It is original from before
> 1995, so it may be broken. I can try to check on my 486 once it is up
&
Excerpt from dmccunney:
> The likely issue is that the web is moving to https for connectivity.
> This creates an encrypted session between you and what you are
> accessing. It's more secure, but requires using a browser than can
> *do* https.
> What client are you using now? I don't try to
> Has anyone here ever tested FreeDOS on a Tandy 1000? I've been
> considering getting one for some software testing, but it occurred to me
> that its slight differences might not be compatible with FreeDOS.
> Happy Hacking,
> David E. McMackins II
I researched Tandy and Tandy
from Rugxulo (snippet):
> You can check the old Crynwr packet driver collection (mirrored on
> iBiblio) or a few other sites:
*
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.2/repos/pkg-html/group-net.html
* http://www.georgpotthast.de/sioux/packet.htm
*
Excerpt from Patrick:
> 3)I use vim on Linux, has anyone ported this over? It looks like there is
> FreeMacs, is this my best bet for a Unix like editor ?
I can't answer all your issues, but I remember using vim and elvis in DR-DOS
and FreeDOS. nvi, which is the vi in NetBSD and FreeBSD, has
from David McMackins:
> I have a late 90s vintage laptop running FreeDOS, and I'd like to use it
> to connect to a BBS system directly over a phone line using its modem.
> Even if it turns out that this modem in particular won't work, I'd still
> like some help finding software for this.
from dmccunney:
> I'm not, and more modem information can be found here:
> http://www.modemsite.com/56k/dos.asp
> But the biggest challenge is likely to be "What do you call if you
> *can* get a working modem?"
> Dennis
That was my point on my last message: BBSes now are very hard to find.
Excerpt from Karen Lewellen and Rugxulo:
> > There was a specific lynx package written by dug Kaufman that I may request
> > be updated.
> I don't think he's still active, but I could be wrong.
Doug Kaufman's web page is still up, but his Lynx is pretty old:
The latest DOS port of lynx is
> My vote: Treat as a friendly project, not part of a DOS distro.
> About the UEFI thing: The method of choice would indeed be to
> load a BIOS layer as UEFI module and then load a normal DOS.
> Regards, Eric
How is that done? Where does one obtain the BIOS layer, and how would it be
> Just wanted to share a quick update that when I see announcements
> about programs for FreeDOS, I might post them as news on the website,
> or tweet about them from the FreeDOS Twitter account:
> http://twitter.com/FreeDOS_Project
> I may sometimes share them on the FreeDOS Facebook
Excerpt from userbeit...@abwesend.de:
> * UEFI replaced the BIOS.
> * FreeDOS needs a PC with BIOS.
> * UEFI, in its transitional period, supported emulating the BIOS, which
> it calls CSM.
> * CSM stands for "compatiblity support module" and is essentially the
> BIOS emulation of UEFI.
> *
> I can't find an unsubscribe link to FreeDos. Could you point me at that, or
> take me off of the list?
> Thanks,
> - Steve Owens
My first thought was to look through the headers. I found (excerpt)
List-Id: "Discussion and general questions about FreeDOS."
List-Unsubscribe:
Excerpt from userbeit...@abwesend.de:
> Sorry, you're right off course.
Did you mean "of course" or "off course"?
> Though on my Linux machine the graphics works flawlessly when booted in
> native UEFI mode, but has issues with screen suspend (monitor in
> stand-by) - it doesn't wake-up
> I got Arachne working, somewhat.
> It's good as long as you don't try to do anything risky like searching
Google.
> Then it locks up trying to verify images.
> It wasn't updated in over 6 years (correct me if I'm wrong) and the web
> apparently just changed too
> That being said (and I am not a trademark expert at all - I barely know what a
> trademark is), isn't FreeDOS at risk itself, for reusing the same OS idea as
> MS-DOS, same set of commands, same syntax, same INT 21h API...? That's a
> honest question, I'm clueless.
> Mateusz
There have been
Excerpts from Jim Hall:
**office*
> I'm glad you mentioned this! DOS dominated office environments, so there
> are a lot of great office applications for DOS.
> There's a real push right now for "distraction-free office environments"
> that let you put all your attention to writing, or
Jerome Shidel composed on 2019-11-14 10:27 (UTC-0500):
> Iâm just looking to do quick poll on you thoughts and opinion.
> When FreeDOS 1.3 is booted as a Live environment from the CD-ROM, should it
> be permitted access to any internal hard drive(s)?
> Allowing access, can permit reading and
from Rugxulo:
> On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 4:32 PM OMGdaDPS
> wrote:
> > I use etcher because I myself am on Linux, and it handles zipped img files
> > in two clicks. no need to go to the terminal
> > and work some dd magic or anything. nothing against rufus, because I use it
> > when I run
from Thalis AgáthÅn :
> [-- Attachment #1 --]
> [-- Type: text/html, Encoding: base64, Size: 1.9K --]
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
> Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
> Dear DOS friends, how do i unsubscribe from this group? thank you! />-- Sent from Yandex.Mail for mobile01:37,
>From dmccunney:
> On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 11:40 AM Dale E Sterner wrote:
> > The edit command has limits on size; had to use Wordperfect on one file.
> > In 2015 Dennis talked about using vedit but can't find a dos version.
> > In the new world large files are common.
> Large files are
I finally, after some trouble, installed FreeDOS 1.3-RC2 onto a USB stick, but
not the intended one.
I downloaded the USB-stick image, unzipped and wrote to the installation USB
stick using dd, from NetBSD.
It seems writing the installer USB stick was OK.
I subsequently booted that USB stick,
Just the subject line made me immediately think of one deficiency I met with
FreeDOS 1.3rc2.
Installation program needs to allow the user to see where the new FreeDOS will
be installed to, and to give the user choice of where to install to.
I had a scary experience installing FreeDOS 1.3rc2.
Just the subject line made me immediately think of one deficiency I met with
FreeDOS 1.3rc2.
Installation program needs to allow the user to see where the new FreeDOS will
be installed to, and to give the user choice of where to install to.
I had a scary experience installing FreeDOS 1.3rc2.
from Eric Auer:
> > Hi everybody!
> I had a thought about my more or LESS working website
> which has all those ZIPs of freedos and other packages:
> It would probably be more modern and not require any
> website on my own to put all that on one of those modern
> portals where people
On 8/22/2020 2:41 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote:
> The idea that asking about msdos in a freedos forum and raising questions
> about software suggested in a freedos distribution due to date might be
> strange came from Jim. If asking about ms dos within freedos is odd,
> giving Linux solutions to
I remember, from DR-DOS website (drdos.com to the best of my memory), in their
later years DR-DOS could load Linux and come back to DR-DOS after the user
exited from Linux.
As far as I could see, it was not possible to run DOS and Linux software
concurrently.
I never tried that, believe
> Been using it 24/7 since around v5.0 in an OS/2 DOS session. It's been forever
> since I tried to export to another format other than .wk1, which is done
> simply
> via saving with the different file extension. Anyone here remember what other
> extensions are available? I don't see anything on
> Hi folks,
> I believe I will ask the same question on the dos ain't dead list.
> Still, I am curious what strict dos third party diagnostic tools you like
> using?
> One heart break about norton utilities, I have the last DOS edition, is that
> it cannot see more than two partitions.
> the
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