Hopefully I don't rant too much...
I rarely post on the list at all but I think that
there has been a trend recently to add features to
FreeDOS but skip over the fact that it's supposed to
reproduce DOS as faithfully as possible. I wasn't all
that happy with FD 1.0 and still use my custom install
--- Eric Auer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Eli,
James Tabor is probably right. To do this right,
we need a simple,
stable DOS (or MS-DOS emulator), with drivers for
hard disks, USB flash
disks, USB hard disks, LANs, etc., which can read
and write all
varieties of FAT and NTFS
Maybe this could be what you're interested in?
http://freedos.org/freedos/software/
--- Andre Tertling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi again,
today I built my own FreeDOS boot disk for some
experiments, and I spent
quite some time with finding all the particular
single items I wanted. I
--- Christian Voß [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I can't understand the crying about the FAT patent.
In the whole world of
file systems are enough candidates to replace the
Grandma of file systems.
And most of them are free. I.e. HFS and HFS+ (the
file systems of MacOS) are
GPL and is
You need to load in the driver for the CD drive before
you can use it, FreeDOS doesn't do it automatically.
You need the program atapicdd which you can get here
http://www.darklogic.org/fdos/projects/atapicdd/ .
Then, if I remeber correctly, you add device= path
of utilatapicdd.sys options, see
