Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Installed on CD
Forgive me if I'm wrong, but doesn't freedos include an option to run it from the cd?? Burn the iso to cd, boot it and check out the options on the first screen that shows up. If I remember correctly, you can install, boot the hard disk, or run directly from the cd, to check it out. Jeff On Sunday 02 April 2006 16:20, Mark Bailey wrote: Good morning, sir: It is easy to create a CD which boots from a floppy disk image file, using the same basic technique that Linux uses to boot its kernels. The key programs to do it this way are mkisofs, to create the bootable CD file system, and isolinux to boot the Floppy Disk image. I wrote up a pretty detailed procedure on doing this which is available at http://k1ea.com/hints/Creating_a_Bootable_DOS_CD_V%201.5.pdf I would welcome any comments. Setting up the first one is a bit tricky, but it gets easier. This is written to create the CD from Windows. Mark N. Sivin wrote: This is a simpleminded question, but I have spent a couple of hours trying to puzzle an answer out of the materials on the FreeDOS site--where it may be hidden among the jargon. I have downloaded the ISO, but I don't want to install FreeDOS on my hard disk. What I want to do is install it on a bootable CD so that I can try its capabilities out before deciding what to do with it. For instance, Linux offers several bootable CD images that one can use to run any computer under the OS without affecting the computer's installation in any way. How can I do that with FreeDOS? I'd be grateful for a jargon-free answer (I know DOS, by the way.) Thanks, --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121 642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. -- Mark Twain --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Installation Problem
I am not using a PII. I am using an Abit KD7E with an AMD Athlon xp 1800 and sr2 won't install. sr1 and several previous releases work. Jeff On Tuesday 21 March 2006 22:55, FreeDOS Ankreuzen wrote: Yes on some mainbords PC s with PENTIUM II, there is a problem to install FDOS BETA 9SR2 from CD. If it s possibel use a Bootdisk with old FreeDOS Version and pre-install FreeDOS manually. Please tell me if you are using a Pentium II or which Mainboard it is. I ve this problem with a pentium II NMC mainbord you should boot the floppy without EMM386! use fdxms.sys or fdxxms.sys and umbpci. I ll create a bootdisk. OR use the fdosbeta9SR1 ! R.E.Dick http://ankreuzen.de german freedos infos -- Arachne mail - FreeDOS - deutsch - http://ankreuzen.de -- --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121 642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- Good afternoon, madam. How may I help you? Good afternoon. I'd like a FrintArms HandCannon, please. A--? Oh, now, that's an awfully big gun for such a lovely lady. I mean, not everybody thinks ladies should carry guns at all, though I say they have a right to. But I think... I might... Let's have a look down here. I might have just the thing for you. Yes, here we are! Look at that, isn't it neat? Now that is a FrintArms product as well, but it's what's called a laser -- a light-pistol some people call them. Very small, as you see; fits easily into a pocket or bag; won't spoil the line of a jacket; and you won't feel you're lugging half a tonne of iron around with you. We do a range of matching accessories, including -- if I may say so -- a rather saucy garter holster. Wish I got to do the fitting for that! Ha -- just my little joke. And there's *even*... here we are -- this special presentation pack: gun, charged battery, charging unit, beautiful glider-hide shoulder holster with adjustable fitting and contrast stitching, and a discount on your next battery. Full instructions, of course, and a voucher for free lessons at your local gun club or range. Or there's the *special* presentation pack; it has all the other one's got but with *two* charged batteries and a night-sight, too. Here, feel that -- don't worry, it's a dummy battery -- isn't it neat? Feel how light it is? Smooth, see? No bits to stick out and catch on your clothes, *and* beautifully balanced. And of course the beauty of a laser is, there's no recoil. Because it's shooting light, you see? Beautiful gun, beautiful gun; my wife has one. Really. That's not a line, she really has. Now, I can do you that one -- with a battery and a free charge -- for ninety-five; or the presentation pack on a special offer for one-nineteen; or this, the special presentation pack, for one-forty-nine. I'll take the special. Sound choice, madam, *sound* choice. Now, do--? And a HandCannon, with the eighty-mill silencer, five GP clips, three six-five AP/wire-fl'echettes clips, two bipropellant HE clips, and a Special Projectile Pack if you have one -- the one with the embedding rounds, not the signalers. I assume the night-sight on this toy is compatible? Aah... yes, And how does madam wish to pay? She slapped her credit card on the counter. Eventually. -- Iain M. Banks, Against a Dark Background --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Installation Problem
ftp://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/old/beta9sr1/ On Thursday 23 March 2006 05:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I finally figured out what you mean by sr#1 I looked all over the Free DOS website for a download of Service Release # 1 Can't find a download for this Release Do you see a download posted anywhere for Service Release # 1 ??? Thank you in advance for looking -- You single-handedly fought your way into this hopeless mess. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Installation Problem
Same thing exactly going on here. Many others experiencing the same results. Something is wrong with sr #2. Try this, I haven't yet: Hi, it could be the case that the nlsfunc interaction is what crashes for you (nlsfunc/display/mode/devel-kernel). Try if it helps to skip loading nlsfunc (hit f8 at boot, then you are asked for each driver if it should be loaded). If that helps: Just remove nlsfunc from your config sys. Then chcp will no longer work, but you can still use display and mode to switch codepages manually. If it doesn't work, try to download sr#1. It works fine. Good Luck, JeffM. On Thursday 23 March 2006 03:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I downloaded the most recent release of Free DOS beta9 Service Release #2 (Dated 11/30/2005) twice and burned both ISO images to CD's via Nero as recommended Tried several times to install DOS via the CD's On each and every attempt the installation failed Display screen showed the following results DOS version 7.10 FreeDos kernal version 0.0.35 CON codepage support (Free DOS DISPLAY) not loaded. FreeDOS DISPLAY ver. 0.12 Buffers allocated: 002 in TPA, 000 in XMS Uncompressing and loading UPXed CPI (CPX) file :-). Invalid Opcode at ... Invalid Opcode at ... Invalid Opcode at ... Invalid Opcode at ... Invalid Opcode at .. Program installation freezes up - nothing further happens !!! Does anyone have any suggestions on what can be done to solve this problem Any comments would be greatly appreciated -- Let him choose out of my files, his projects to accomplish. -- Shakespeare, Coriolanus --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Installation problem...
This may be true on your pc, however, I have successfully installed the last several versions on my pc (since pre release 4 I think) and not a single thing has gone wrong until this one. I haven't changed a thing so something definitely went wrong with sr2. I can still put in the previous releases without troubles. It is okay, as sr1 works fine for what I'm doing. However, I would like to let the FreeDOS community know what's happening. Also, if there is a simple fix I can do on my end I'd like to try it. Best of luck, JeffM. On Saturday 18 March 2006 03:28, Panigaz wrote: In one PC that I tried to install gave the same mistake.. I put in another gave right.. I believe to be some thing in the bios of the pc.. I had the same exact problem. There is clearly something wrong with service release 2. I had to go back and install sr1. I have installed the last several releases of FD and they all went in flawlessly on this hardware. There have been some suggestions made, but I haven't tried them yet. Look through earlier postings if you can, subject: problems with floppy install. Best of luck to you. J.M. On Thursday 16 March 2006 11:23, Escorter wrote: Hi! I downloaded the latest fdfullcd.iso, and I burned it at 16x speed. I booted my PII from this cd. The booting is going fine, but when I start the installation, I get four line of Invalid Opcode at... error message, and the system halted. What does it mean? And how can I fix it? -- Afternoon very favorable for romance. Try a single person for a change. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Installation problem...
Here is a suggestion that you could try to fix the installation problem. I haven't had a chance to try it myself: Hi, it could be the case that the nlsfunc interaction is what crashes for you (nlsfunc/display/mode/devel-kernel). Try if it helps to skip loading nlsfunc (hit f8 at boot, then you are asked for each driver if it should be loaded). If that helps: Just remove nlsfunc from your config sys. Then chcp will no longer work, but you can still use display and mode to switch codepages manually. Looking forward to reading your test results... Eric ps: if English is your native language, you are probably not interested in codepage switching at all anyway. On Sunday 19 March 2006 17:55, JeffM. wrote: This may be true on your pc, however, I have successfully installed the last several versions on my pc (since pre release 4 I think) and not a single thing has gone wrong until this one. I haven't changed a thing so something definitely went wrong with sr2. I can still put in the previous releases without troubles. It is okay, as sr1 works fine for what I'm doing. However, I would like to let the FreeDOS community know what's happening. Also, if there is a simple fix I can do on my end I'd like to try it. Best of luck, JeffM. On Saturday 18 March 2006 03:28, Panigaz wrote: In one PC that I tried to install gave the same mistake.. I put in another gave right.. I believe to be some thing in the bios of the pc.. I had the same exact problem. There is clearly something wrong with service release 2. I had to go back and install sr1. I have installed the last several releases of FD and they all went in flawlessly on this hardware. There have been some suggestions made, but I haven't tried them yet. Look through earlier postings if you can, subject: problems with floppy install. Best of luck to you. J.M. On Thursday 16 March 2006 11:23, Escorter wrote: Hi! I downloaded the latest fdfullcd.iso, and I burned it at 16x speed. I booted my PII from this cd. The booting is going fine, but when I start the installation, I get four line of Invalid Opcode at... error message, and the system halted. What does it mean? And how can I fix it? -- ... all the modern inconveniences ... -- Mark Twain --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Installation problem...
I had the same exact problem. There is clearly something wrong with service release 2. I had to go back and install sr1. I have installed the last several releases of FD and they all went in flawlessly on this hardware. There have been some suggestions made, but I haven't tried them yet. Look through earlier postings if you can, subject: problems with floppy install. Best of luck to you. J.M. On Thursday 16 March 2006 11:23, Escorter wrote: Hi! I downloaded the latest fdfullcd.iso, and I burned it at 16x speed. I booted my PII from this cd. The booting is going fine, but when I start the installation, I get four line of Invalid Opcode at... error message, and the system halted. What does it mean? And how can I fix it? _ Állest Keres? Mi segítünk! Több ezer állásajánlat közül válogathat: http://www.jobpilot.hu --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid0944bid$1720dat1642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- You like to form new friendships and make new acquaintances. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid0944bid$1720dat1642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Problems with floppy disk installation
Yes, I also had problems installing service release 2 to hd with the cd. It would hang after the first or second screen (I don't remember 100%, sorry). Never got to the graphical installer at any rate. I had to go back and install sr1. I wonder if it has anything to do with the unstable kernel. Nonetheless, it was a surprising disappointment after installing so many of the last versions flawlessly on this hardware. Jeff M. On Saturday 04 March 2006 07:51, usul wrote: I had a lot of the same kind of messages with The cd install which is built on the disks imagine. Keep trying menu options combinations, eventually I got through them And it installed. I can't remember which menu it was exactly But I think it was the 3rd once (including my cd install) So it Might only be your second. NOTE: no matter what I did to install VIM it didn't work And it hung up the install process. Skip it copy the file later. I know this probably isn't much help. LOL. Good luck! Usul -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Drum Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 11:45 PM To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Freedos-user] Problems with floppy disk installation I just downloaded the beta 9 floppy diskette images the other day. I am installing onto a Toshiba Libretto 110CT which only has a floppy drive attachment. The boot disk works just fine and it even went so far as to properly format the hard drive and create a DOS partition. It also seems to have done a proper installation of a barebones bootable DOS on the hard drive. So far, so good. However, running the installer on the boot disk (which will presumably prompt for the other installer disks so I can get more robust functionality) produces a full page of text that goes by far too quickly to read. The following screen says that some files are missing and aborts the installation. Presumably the installer is referring to itself, not my hard drive. Anyone have any ideas, or is the current floppy installer beta known to have this issue? Christopher Drum --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121 642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121 642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- Fine day for friends. So-so day for you. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
