Re: [Freedos-user] Linux Tools and FreeDOS Dual Boot LiveCD
Hi Mark, This is something I would be interested in checking out, though I must say that I have no interest in Windows (XP or otherwise). Ken Martwick On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 03:24:44AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, all: I have succeeded in creating a bootable CD containing Linux and FreeDOS. It turned out to be easy. This CD containts the two tools you need to dual-boot a Windows XP computer (gparted and fdisk) and the FreeDOS odin1440 boot floppy image (from odin.fdos.org - the 2005 version). Everything on it is GPL (I believe). It is based on the GParted 0.2 LiveCD and FreeDOS ODIN. You do not need to know anything about Linux to do this. The image is about 32.5MB. Does anyone want to try this image? The directions I have available use the same programs and are quite close. You could install FreeDOS using this in two reboots and burning only one CD. I can send you a very detailed PDF procedure. Is there somewhere we could post more recent versions of this? I don't have a web server available. The size should remain at under 35MB I believe. Let me know if you are willing to be a beta tester! Mark Bailey --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=103432bid=230486dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=103432bid=230486dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] newbie help: your time please :(
In Linux, you can insert a blank floppy in the first drive and issue the command: dd if=???.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=2880 from the comman line, where ???.img is replaced by the name of the img file you are using. Ken Martwick On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 09:59:26AM +0100, Gildor Inglorion wrote: i know that you talk mostly on hihg-level themes concerning freedos programming and such, and i think that newbie questions can easily be overlooked, but please, offer me some time because i need your help i am using linux and i downloaded the .img bootdisk image from the download page. I don't know what to do with such file. I mounted it on a dir, then i mcpied its contents to a disk, but the disk couldn't boot i guess mounting and copying is not the proper way... what is it then? thanks for your time __ ?? Yahoo!; ?? ?? ?? (spam); ?? Yahoo! Mail ??? ?? ? ??? ??? ? http://mail.yahoo.gr --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42 plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42 plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Dual booting Linux and FreeDOS
I have had little problem dual-booting FreeDOS and Linux. I used the quotes because I usually boot four or more OS's on a given PC. It is easiest to start with a floppy boot image, tweak it until it works as you want it to, and then install to the HDD. I have just been learn- ing that grub does not yet seem to be able to boot FreeBSD with the new ufs2 file system, even though it is supposed to. It works fine with ufs1. Ken Martwick On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 11:11:02AM -0400, Thomas Murray wrote: Is it possible to have a dual boot system (Linux and FreeDOS) using grub or grub4dos? From what I've seen from searching the web, a lot of people are having trouble with this kind of setup. Has there been any progress on this front? I really don't want to use a boot floppy if I don't have to, and I'd rather not have MSDOS on my computer as explained in the GRUB for DOS How-To that was posted on 2004-12-28. It was mentioned in that post that the DOS based GRUB will not run with all FreeDOS kernels. I assume that this means that some FreeDOS kernels will. Any ideas which ones will work? Also, emulation from within Linux with DOSemu or BOCHS is not an option for me for I want to use FreeDOS to run a machine controller program (TurboCNC) and that program requires realtime access to the computer. Thanks, Tom Murray --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595alloc_id=14396op=click ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595alloc_id=14396op=click ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
