[Freedos-user] VirtualBox UMBs and FreeDOS
On a default FreeDOS 1.3 installation, are the autodetected UMBs that JEMM386 uses safe? In my experience, some segments that JEMM386 uses by default are problematic, namely EE00-EFFF. I've had problems using that segment with JEMM386, HiRAM, UMBPCI. Sometimes the system doesn't reboot properly with a soft reset, sometimes programs crash, and sometimes the VM crashes. I'm not 100% sure about C800-CBFF. MSD detects C800-C899 as "possibly available", same as EE00-EFFF. According to my tests, a safe area is CC00-DFFF and E400-EDFF. I'll experiment further with JEMM386 and JEMMEX but I wanted to know what is the consensus. I'm using VirtualBox (v6.1.34 r150636) and FreeDOS 1.3 with default "full" install. ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos, laptops, and the internet?
That's great news! Where can it be found? Would you please share a link to it? Thank you Tauro On 2/6/23 21:10, Karen Lewellen wrote: Yes, actually. someone updated sshdos so that it can support more current dh keys and so forth. Using it as I write in fact. On Fri, 2 Jun 2023, tauro via Freedos-user wrote: Since you're talking about the internet, considering one is successful setting up the NIC, Is there a fully working/updated SSH client for DOS? With support for current ciphers, MACs and kex algorithms? Tauro ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos, laptops, and the internet?
Since you're talking about the internet, considering one is successful setting up the NIC, Is there a fully working/updated SSH client for DOS? With support for current ciphers, MACs and kex algorithms? Tauro ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] can't see DVD reader - try AHCICD by R Loew - Including his software in FreeDOS
On 20/9/22 04:35, Eric Auer wrote: You could use AHCICD, which got open sourced after the author Rudolph Loew passed away, but unfortunately, he has not been able to update all documentation after his death, so the way in which AHCICD and his other software became open source was not accepted by this distro and you have to download things separately by hand. However, the license.txt and readme etc. still are originals, so they still say the software is copyrighted. Only the main start page tells otherwise: Quoting the website: Rudolph Loew (Rudy) passed away on September 11th, 2019. This site is maintained by his family to archive his work and make it available to anyone who is interested in pursuing further endeavors. Please do not try to make any purchases, all of Rudy's projects will be made available (including source code) as time permits. In order to freely distribute it and include it in FreeDOS repositories, wouldn't it be a good idea to contact his estate to dissipate all doubts about the current license? (maybe advice them to use a GNU GPL license too). Including his software in FreeDOS would keep his legacy alive for many years and based on forum posts by his family members and the current message header on his memorial website, it seems they would be happy with it. ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] FDNPKG, FDIMPLES, online repositories and usage questions
On 9/9/22 19:55, Paul Dufresne wrote: I am not sure... but I would guess fdimples... use the command line fdnpkg: http://fdnpkg.sourceforge.net/ I think when launched without parameters, it give help... or then with /? ... I don't clearly remember.The file format used by packages is described at: http://wiki.freedos.org/wiki/index.php/Package That's excellent, thanks for the info and the links! I didn't know that such a program existed, let alone that I had it installed. It would be useful if there was autocompletion for the binaries/batch files in %PATH%. I have a few questions: I checked and FDIMPLES /h says it shares most of its code with FDNPKG but they are two separate programs. I didn't find a way to use FDIMPLES with the ibiblio repositories though. Is it possible? With FDNPKG, the default repository is "latest", but I see that there's also "1.3" and "unstable". If I'm using FreeDOS 1.3, should I use "latest" or "1.3"? What's the difference? And what about "unstable"? Is there a way to show the full package description? For example, if I do fdnpkg search pgme it only shows a truncated description. It would be cool if there was some equivalent to "apt-cache show pgme" to show the details and full description of the package. Also, when you're not sure what's the name of the package you want, but you have an idea, it would be useful to be able to search in the description of all the packages, something like "apt search/apt-cache search/aptitude search". The file format used by packages is described at: http://wiki.freedos.org/wiki/index.php/Package Is that up to date? it seems to be dated (e.g. FDOS instead of FREEDOS). The packages are mostly developed at: https://gitlab.com/FreeDOS But when you download them as zip from Gitlab, they are not in a format described in the Package link given. That's where the perl script I am writing is supposed to help translate the zip downloaded from Gitlab to a package understood by FreeDOS. I did not publish it yet... but expect to publish something in next 24h. Great! that will be very useful for package maintainers, I'm sure. ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Ré : djgpp bash and autoconf for dos, new gcc
Hello Paul, I'd like to know more about the packaging system. It seems very interesting, and useful. What paths does it use? Does it create bat files? Does it have online repositories? Something like apt, pacman, yum to install/remove packages would be very handy, combined with online repos. I know about fdimples and I like it very much but it's GUI only AFAIK and only works with a small set of packages from the livecd iso. Tauro On 9/9/22 11:57, Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user wrote: Hi... was aware of the files on Delorie website. Was more asking for Jerome to create the directory on Gitlab, so that I can make a package with your suggested file. I am unsure if autoconf, and automake are used enough to justify having packages for them too. For people wanting to understand how it works, I like the diagram on: https://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/autotools/index.html Like they show in the diagram... most project will have already made configure script and Makefile.in. So that it mostly usefull for people doing projects to be used on Unix like OS. So I tend to think it is not necessary to have autoconf and automake packages for FreeDOS. But I do not totally exclude the idea. Still working on a Perl script to generate FreeDOS packages from zip files dowloaded from Gitlab FreeDOS's projects. ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] How to have sound with freedos under virtual box?
I read somewhere that virtualbox under linux supported Speaker, but no good, just soundblaster I also found something that also suggested VirtualBox could emulate the PC Speaker, but I haven't been able to get it to work either. On Linux hosts you can use the hardware speaker (if you have one). Example VBoxManage setextradata FreeDOS "VBoxInternal/Devices/i8254/0/Config/PassthroughSpeaker" 1 Read https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/UserManual.html#pcspeaker_passthrough Tauro ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] CD drive always gets the letter H: - can't change
Apparently on your system the letters D:-G: are already assigned to something (like maybe some USB drives or some extra partitions on the hard drive(s)?). You can try seeing if anything exists on the D:-G: drives (e.g., by doing a "DIR D:") and see if you can figure out what's going on. Thank you for your answer Bret, it came in just as I figured out by what was the problem. I installed FreeDOS using the LiveCD, which also partitioned my disk and formatted the C drive. Disabling the fdauto.bat and fdconfig.sys files I saw this message: - InitDiskWARNING: using suspect partition Pri:1 FS 0b: with calculated values �261-254-63 instead of� 262-254-63 C: HD1, Pri[ 1], CHS=��� 0-1-1, start=���� 0 MB, size =� 2055 MB WARNING: using suspect partition Pri:1 FS 0b: with calculated values� 523-254-63 �instead of� 524-254-63 D: HD1, Ext[ 1], CHS=� 262-1-1, start=� 2055 MB, size =� 2055 MB WARNING: using suspect partition Ext:2 FS 0b: with calculated values� 785-254-63 �instead of� 786-254-63 E: HD1, Ext[ 2], CHS=� 524-1-1, start=� 4110 MB, size =� 2055 MB WARNING: using suspect partition Ext:3 FS 0c: with calculated values 1024-254-63 �instead of�� 24-254-63 F: HD1, Ext[ 3], CHS=� 786-1-1, start=� 6165 MB, size =� 2055 MB WARNING: using suspect partition Ext:4 FS 0c: with calculated values 1304-254-63 �instead of� 281-254-63 G: HD1, Ext[ 4], CHS= 1048-1-1, start=� 8220 MB, size =� 2015 MB I don't know if the warning is normal, but from what I could check, the FreeDOS LiveCD installer by default doesn't create a single FAT32 partition (10 GB HDD), but instead it creates a single 2048 MB primary partition, formatted FAT32, and four 2 GB logical partitions, and it doesn't format them. Since the partitions aren't formatted, FreeDOS doesn't mount them, but it still assigns them a letter, and that explains why I had this problem. I didn't expect this to be the default behavior, that's why I didn't check the HDD partition table to see what was going on. To solve this, after deleting the partition table, I booted the LiveCD and repartitioned the disk using fdisk. It created a single 10 GB partition which I later formatted to FAT32 with the included format.exe. After that, the installation went flawlessly and the problem was solved. It would make more sense if the installer made a single FAT16 2 GB partition, or used the whole disk to create a FAT32 partition. The crucial bit is not to silently create the four logical partitions and also leave them unformatted. I suggest that there should be an option to let the user decide what to do between these two options or something else. ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] CD drive always gets the letter H: - can't change
Hello everybody, I'm new to FreeDOS, and I really like how it combines lots of free DOS software in a single distro, making it more accessible and friendly for the user. The documentation is very complete and software such as FDIMPLES has great potential. My problem: I haven't been able to change the drive letter for the CD drive, no matter how hard I try, it always defaults to the letter H: It was a little hard for me to unravel cdrom.bat to make sense of how it works but I managed to reduce the important part to this: DEVLOAD /H UDVD2.SYS /D:FDCDX001 SHSUCDX /~ /D:FDCDX001,D I also tried the /L switch but nothing makes it change its mind. It will always default to the letter H. I tried using other drivers that work well for me with DOS 6.22 like VIDE-CDD.SYS /D:CD1 MSCDEX.EXE /D:CD1 /L:D But no, the assigned letter is H again. I tried emptying FDAUTO.BAT and FDCONFIG.SYS, creating a minimal configuration (to see if something was conflicting) but there's no way. I even thought it may be caused by HIMEMX or JEMM386, but it doesn't seem to be the case, as the behavior persists even using HIMEM and EMM386. I'm running FreeDOS 1.3. Any help or suggestions would be appreaciated. Tauro ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
