Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 Package LSM Data Verification

> On May 15, 2016, at 1:17 AM, dmccunney wrote: >> [..] >> 4DOS - Listed as Free, No Sources. Kept for now, may get Dropped? > > 4DOS sources, for the original 7.50 release, and the later 8.0 release > by Luchezar Georgiev may be found here, along with 4DOS original >

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 Package LSM Data Verification

> On May 15, 2016, at 12:41 AM, Thomas Mueller wrote: > [..] > I don't know if DIALOG proposed for FreeDOS is the same as any of those > dialogs. I think it is the “DIALOG” package that shipped with FD1.1. > > Without DOSLFN, no support at all for long filenames?

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 Package LSM Data Verification

Hi! In particular: Hi Rugxulo, hi Jim, hi Bret, hi Jerome ;-) >> CRYNWR - Unknown License, Dropped. > > Uh ... "most" of it should be (intentionally) GPL, but there are still > some pieces (e.g. RTSPKT.COM) that aren't. Would be good to have! >> MPXPLAY - Unknown License, Dropped. > >

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 Package LSM Data Verification

Hi, On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 10:02 PM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. wrote: >> On May 14, 2016, at 9:45 PM, Rugxulo wrote: >> >>> BASE: >>> >>> No issues. >> >> Really? Did you double-check JEMM (JLOAD.EXE + *.JLM) and CuteMouse >> (COM2EXE.EXE) > > I did not

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 Package LSM Data Verification

On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 9:22 AM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. wrote: > Anyhow, these are the problem packages and their probable destinies. > > ARCHIVER: > > ZOO - Includes sources, may be Public Domain. No License information. > Dropped. Zoo was Rahul Dhesi's open source archiver,

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 Package LSM Data Verification

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 PACIFICC is probably very outdated now, I never heard of TPPATCH and don't find it in NetBSD pkgsrc or

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 Package LSM Data Verification

Hello, > On May 14, 2016, at 9:45 PM, Rugxulo wrote: > In particular, some software is "GPLv2 only" while others are "GPLv2 > (or later)" or even "GPLv2 (only) or GPLv3 (only)”. I did not go into that fine of detail. But, someone should do that someday. > [It's a mess.]

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 Package LSM Data Verification

Hi again, On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 8:22 AM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. wrote: > > It took some doing. But, I have gone through all both the packages proposed > for the FreeDOS 1.2 release. So, here are the changes that have been > implemented. Some of these are listed even though it

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 Package LSM Data Verification

Hello John and All, > I note that DOSLFN installs by default in FreeDOS 1.1, so if it is not kept > then the FD 1.2 installer would have to accommodate. At present, DOSLFN is not installed with BASE. However, It is installed under ALL. I was unable to determine it’s license. It may be BSD,

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 Package LSM Data Verification

I note that DOSLFN installs by default in FreeDOS 1.1, so if it is not kept then the FD 1.2 installer would have to accommodate. That's a shame about the MPXPLAY unknown license. It's my standard MP3 player. On 5/14/2016 9:22 AM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. wrote: Hello All, It took some doing.

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 Package LSM Data Verification

Hello All, It took some doing. But, I have gone through all both the packages proposed for the FreeDOS 1.2 release. So, here are the changes that have been implemented. Some of these are listed even though it was decided beforehand that they were going to be pulled. One or two, have problems

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 needs you

Hi, On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 8:50 AM, Dale E Sterner wrote: > > If Jack's drivers are left out of version 1.2 ; is there > something to replace them. https://www.kernel.org/ -- Mobile security can

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 needs you

If Jack's drivers are left out of version 1.2 ; is there something to replace them. DS On Thu, 12 May 2016 17:19:28 -0500 Rugxulo writes: > Hi, > > On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 12:50 PM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. > wrote: > > > > So far, I have gone through all

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 needs you

> On May 12, 2016, at 6:19 PM, Rugxulo wrote: [..] > https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.0/pkgs/commands.zip [..] Thanks, Jerome -- Mobile security can be

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 needs you

Hi, On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 12:50 PM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. wrote: > > So far, I have gone through all of the ARCHIVER and BASE packages and have > corrected their LSM data. > > In those groups, these packages have not been solved. > > Unknown license information and will

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 needs you

So far, I have gone through all of the ARCHIVER and BASE packages and have corrected their LSM data. In those groups, these packages have not been solved. Unknown license information and will probably be dropped from release, ARCHIVER/ARJ ARCHIVER/ZOO Missing sources, BASE/COMMAND Yet

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 - Preview 17

On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 10:02 AM, Don Flowers wrote: >>Other than Package and Package Data updates, no further updates are >>planned for FDI before FreeDOS 1.2 Final. > > No KERNEL update? > > On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 9:55 AM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. > wrote: >>

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 needs you

Hi, On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 4:14 AM, Eric Auer wrote: > > Which other DOS apps have HDA? Not many! (But don't forget Judas Player's ALSA/HDA/GPL version.) Sound (or just low-level stuff overall) is probably the weakest link in DOS. Unfortunately, even with relatively good

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 needs you

Hi! >> and my sound (Intel high-definition audio) has no DOS support from what >> I read on this emailing list, > > No universal or "good" support, but a very very few DOS apps do have > (some) limited HDA support. Which? Mpxplay, maybe a port of mplayer, experimental ports of the HX DOS

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 needs you

Hi, On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 9:44 PM, Thomas Mueller wrote: > > I think there is only one web browser, Dillo? Not sure about "official" repo or packages (as there's too many files to keep close track of, IMHO). > Are others available as add-ons: Lynx, Links-GUI, Arachne? I

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 Missing Packages and XDEL

Hi, On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 6:44 PM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. wrote: > > I could not find your fix at > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/, > where can I get the fixed version, just in case I need to release some > future fix… > > > I am not responsible

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 needs you

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

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 needs you

Updated list of packages that still need LSM data and License version verification. ; FreeDOS Installer Package List File ; BASE Packages archiver\unzip archiver\zip base\assign base\attrib base\chkdsk base\choice base\command base\comp base\cpidos base\ctmouse base\debug base\defrag

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 - Preview 17

> On May 7, 2016, at 8:43 PM, Corbin Davenport wrote: > > Thanks for the explanation, that was very interesting! However, I will say > that I haven't had any issues with El Torito under VirtualBox. I am currently > developing a FreeDOS distribution called Cobalt >

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 - Preview 17

Yep, Cobalt is essentially the final stable release that never happened with the Carbon OS project. It still has the same goal of making DOS as easy to use as possible for new users, and I'm super excited for the upcoming 1.2 release :) Corbin On 8 May 2016 6:24 a.m., "Don Flowers"

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 Missing Packages and XDEL

Thanks, I will keep that ;-) Alain On 07-05-2016 20:44, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. wrote: Hello Alain, I could not find your fix at http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/, where can I get the fixed version, just in case I need to release some future fix… I am not

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 - Preview 17

Thanks for the explanation, that was very interesting! However, I will say that I haven't had any issues with El Torito under VirtualBox. I am currently developing a FreeDOS distribution called Cobalt , and the installer CD uses El Torito. Granted, I'm

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 Missing Packages and XDEL

Hello Alain, > I could not find your fix at > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/ > , > where can I get the fixed version, just in case I need to release some future > fix… I am not responsible for the

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 Missing Packages and XDEL

Nice :) :) I could not find your fix at http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/, where can I get the fixed version, just in case I need to release some future fix... My pack inculdes 3 locales, en, pt_br and es (I believe that by Aitor SM). Maybe some more come by ;-)

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 - Preview 17

This disks boots well under VirtualBox (and any machine that I have seen so far...) http://suporte.cosmodata.com.br/downloads/moni/CosmoData-M16012.iso If you care to have a look, I hope that it helps... Sorry, it is in portuguese. And there is a comercial program in it (it has a password) use

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 Missing Packages and XDEL

> Hello Alain, > Here is the XDEL zip file: > https://www.dropbox.com/s/5xah8zlociu59yi/xdel206b.zip?dl=0 > > I updated the LSM but I am not 100% sure if the zip file is in > accordance with the rules, specially the HISTORY.TXT file. > If needed just send me a word and I can fix it For the

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 - Preview 17

Hello Corbin, > I'm really curious about the VirtualBox compatibility fixes, was there any > major changes? > Corbin > Simple answer: Not really. :-) Long answer: The changes only effect VirtualBox. Real hardware and other Virtual Machines are unchanged. Really, really, really long

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 - Preview 17

I'm really curious about the VirtualBox compatibility fixes, was there any major changes? Corbin On 7 May 2016 9:56 a.m., "Jerome E. Shidel Jr." wrote: > Hello all, > > I have just released Preview 17, http://up.lod.bz/FDI > > This release contains: > > * Minor

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 Missing Packages and XDEL

Hello Jerome, Here is the XDEL zip file: https://www.dropbox.com/s/5xah8zlociu59yi/xdel206b.zip?dl=0 I updated the LSM but I am not 100% sure if the zip file is in accordance with the rules, specially the HISTORY.TXT file. If needed just send me a word and I can fix it Alain On 06-05-2016

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 needs you

Hi! > XMGR along with UIDE and several other packages have been dropped from > FreeDOS 1.2. > > This was not my decision. But, I completely agree with the reasoning behind > their removal. There were small doubts about XMGR being clean-room without MS HIMEM contamination but no other

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 - Preview 17

Don, > No KERNEL update? The kernel is just another package. All packages were updated to their latest available version that is available on the ibiblio package repository on 4/24/16. Packages that have been updated since then have not yet been incorporated. This is partially do to some

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 needs you

Thanks Jerome, that they were still in the REPO is what threw me off. I have already eliminated them from all my configurations. On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 10:04 AM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. wrote: > > > What did we decide about XMGR? > > XMGR along with UIDE and several other

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 needs you

> What did we decide about XMGR? XMGR along with UIDE and several other packages have been dropped from FreeDOS 1.2. This was not my decision. But, I completely agree with the reasoning behind their removal. These are still available on the ibiblio repository. So, if you really need them in

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 - Preview 17

>Other than Package and Package Data updates, no further updates are >planned for FDI before FreeDOS 1.2 Final. No KERNEL update? On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 9:55 AM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. wrote: > Hello all, > > I have just released Preview 17, http://up.lod.bz/FDI > > This

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 - Preview 17

Hello all, I have just released Preview 17, http://up.lod.bz/FDI This release contains: * Minor package and data updates. * Some internal improvements. * Some VirtualBox compatibility updates. * USB versions include FDIDEV.BAT to aid in replicating

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 needs you

What did we decide about XMGR? On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 8:59 PM, Jerome Shidel wrote: > > > So you just want us to weed out the license-incompatible ones?? > > That is only part of what is needed. > Some packages have wrong or old license information. For example, some > have

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 needs you

> So you just want us to weed out the license-incompatible ones?? That is only part of what is needed. Some packages have wrong or old license information. For example, some have switched from GPL to BSD. Others, are listed as GPL, but are actually GPLv2. And so on. >> base\ctmouse > >

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 needs you

Hi, On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 5:52 AM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. wrote: > > FreeDOS 1.2 needs your help verifying package information. This is one of the > main holdups for the > next OS release. Verifying this data is correct is essential. Especially the > the licensing

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 Missing Packages and XDEL

Hello Alain, I mentioned several days ago, that if there anything additional anyone wanted included to let me know. But, it is still not to late. However, XDEL is not on the FreeDOS Repo. As long as I receive it. It is open source and includes the source. Is packaged up with the proper LSM

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 needs you

I made a XDEL utility, clone of DRDO's but it was happily forgotten :( Alain On 06-05-2016 07:52, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. wrote: > Hello All, > > FreeDOS 1.2 needs your help verifying package information. This is one of the > main holdups for the > next OS release. Verifying this data is correct

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 needs you

Hello All, FreeDOS 1.2 needs your help verifying package information. This is one of the main holdups for the next OS release. Verifying this data is correct is essential. Especially the the licensing information. GPL, GPLv2, MIT, BSD …… Other information, such as website, authors and etc,

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 - Preview 16

> On Apr 19, 2016, at 5:55 PM, Louis Santillan wrote: > > That would have been my argument. The default imaging/image writing > tools do not automagically expand the filesystem. But, if you include > a tool that could do off-line or on-line FAT expansion with freespace >

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 - Preview 16

I use DD most of the time, but occasionally turn to SYSLINUX. It is quite easy to set up and provides the "space" environment On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 5:55 PM, Louis Santillan wrote: > That would have been my argument. The default imaging/image writing > tools do not

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 - Preview 16

That would have been my argument. The default imaging/image writing tools do not automagically expand the filesystem. But, if you include a tool that could do off-line or on-line FAT expansion with freespace detection, that would be a killer feature. On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 2:44 PM, Jerome E.

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 - Preview 16

Hello Jim, Oops, I forgot to answer this part. > For putting the image on a USB fob drive, wouldn't you use Live USB > Creator or some similar tool anyway, so the 2GB thing doesn't matter? > Live USB Creator allows you to set aside extra space on the target fob > drive as writable space.

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 - Preview 16

I looked into my USB stuff, and I see I have: 1x 32M CompactFlash card 1x 128M USB pendrive 2x 512M SD card 1x 1G micro SD card inserted inside some USB "pendrive adapter" Hence if I'd want to test anything, I wouldn't have any medium big enough. Why not proposing the 2G image additionally to

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 - Preview 16

I have 6 32MB (that's Megabyte) that I got for $2 a piece. Now they are going for as high as $10 a piece. Most of my non dedicated drives are 4gb and up. On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 12:23 PM, dmccunney wrote: > On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 12:14 PM, Jerome Shidel

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 - Preview 16

Hi Jerome et al, to add my vote: I agree that people rarely have sticks smaller than 2 GB. So while we are not always using a tool to put 500 MB of DOS data on sticks of arbitrary size, keeping the free space accessible for DOS, it is a good workaround to "ship" the FreeDOS USB stick image as 2

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 - Preview 16

On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 12:14 PM, Jerome Shidel wrote: > Personally, I think the CONs of forcing a larger Media requirement outweigh > the bonus of the free space. You can still *find* something like a 512MB USB stick? The smallest I have is 1GB. The smallest I see for sale

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 - Preview 16

> On Apr 19, 2016, at 11:47 AM, Jim Hall wrote: > >> On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 9:28 AM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. >> wrote: >> >> Hello All, >> >> At present there are two USB of FDI, 32MB and 512MB. >> >> Who would like the 512MB version expanded to 2GB in

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 - Preview 16

On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 9:28 AM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. wrote: > > Hello All, > > At present there are two USB of FDI, 32MB and 512MB. > > Who would like the 512MB version expanded to 2GB in Preview 16? > > This would not effect the download size or installed software. > >

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 - Preview 16

I am using a 1Gb drive for the 512 image (losing 512) and you know how scarce the 1Gb drives are. I would much rather use one of many 2Gb drives with no wasted space. On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 11:40 AM, Don Flowers wrote: > One vote for 2gb. > > On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 10:28

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 - Preview 16

One vote for 2gb. On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 10:28 AM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. wrote: > Hello All, > > At present there are two USB of FDI, 32MB and 512MB. > > Who would like the 512MB version expanded to 2GB in Preview 16? > > This would not effect the download size or installed

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 - Preview 16

Hello All, At present there are two USB of FDI, 32MB and 512MB. Who would like the 512MB version expanded to 2GB in Preview 16? This would not effect the download size or installed software. However, it would require a 2GB USB drive instead of only 512MB. The only benefit I see in doing this

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDos booting from a USB stick

> On Mar 29, 2016, at 1:26 PM, Thomsen Thomsen wrote: > > Hello. I managed to create a bootable USB key running FreeDos using Rufus > (http://www.howtogeek.com/136987/how-to-create-a-bootable-dos-usb-drive/). It > works well and boots fine. I even managed to move

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDos booting from a USB stick

Hello, > On Mar 29, 2016, at 1:26 PM, Thomsen Thomsen wrote: > > Hello. I managed to create a bootable USB key running FreeDos using Rufus > (http://www.howtogeek.com/136987/how-to-create-a-bootable-dos-usb-drive/). It > works well and boots fine. I even managed to

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDos booting from a USB stick

Hi, On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 12:26 PM, Thomsen Thomsen wrote: > > Hello. I managed to create a bootable USB key running FreeDos using Rufus > It works well and boots fine. I even managed to move files to the USB key. Good to know that it works for you (too). > I wanted

[Freedos-user] FreeDos booting from a USB stick

Hello. I managed to create a bootable USB key running FreeDos using Rufus (http://www.howtogeek.com/136987/how-to-create-a-bootable-dos-usb-drive/). It works well and boots fine. I even managed to move files to the USB key. I wanted to install some of the programs from

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 BETA, Coming soon--ish.

Hello Eric, > please explain what goes wrong with Dosbox, Freecom and V8: Basically, the current DOSBox doesn't really support Stdin/out I/O redirection. It mostly seems to work once FreeCOM is loaded. However, testing if input is waiting on Stdin, it always replies yes when the data is piped

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 BETA, Coming soon--ish.

Hello All, This is mostly a status update regarding the FreeDOS 1.2 BETA release. There have been no installer related issues reported with the current FDI Preview 14 and it is technically ready for the BETA release. However, I intend on implementing a couple things prior to that release. They

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS B

This is a FreeDOS disturbition. This is a live cd. This is useful for computers of DOS. Included Software: FreeDOS Bilgisayarcılık DOS Araçları XFDISK ZeroFill Syslinux XOSL OpenGEM VGAPaint 386 Main Site: http://bilgisayarcilik.github.io/ Github Adress:

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Installer Preview 14 - The Final Chapter.

Hello Don, > Jerome, this is not an installer issue, it occurs following an otherwise > successful install and reboot. I think it is a DOSLFN/Memory Management/SHELL > issue. It's a bug that has been around for a long time and the only way I > have gotten rid of it is to forgo DOSLFN. > > On

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Installer Preview 14 - The Final Chapter.

Jerome, this is not an installer issue, it occurs following an otherwise successful install and reboot. I think it is a DOSLFN/Memory Management/SHELL issue. It's a bug that has been around for a long time and the only way I have gotten rid of it is to forgo DOSLFN. On another note, I am in need

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Installer Preview 14 - The Final Chapter.

Hello Don > On Mar 8, 2016, at 1:17 PM, Don Flowers wrote: > > Just did an install on my multiple Hard drive/multiple DOS/FreeDOS DC5700. I > used the advanced option and have nothing bad to report (except that *#$% > "Error reading from drive A: DOS area drive not ready

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Installer Preview 14 - The Final Chapter.

Just did an install on my multiple Hard drive/multiple DOS/FreeDOS DC5700. I used the advanced option and have nothing bad to report (except that *#$% "Error reading from drive A: DOS area drive not ready Abort Ignore Retry Fail?" on mulitple file copy. Tried adding \ to destination directory to

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Installer Preview 14 - The Final Chapter.

Anxious to test and report back. On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 1:49 PM, Louis Santillan wrote: > I'll do some more testing tonight or tomorrow night. > > On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 9:58 AM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. > wrote: > >> Hello All, >> >> The wholesome and

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Installer Preview 14 - The Final Chapter.

I'll do some more testing tonight or tomorrow night. On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 9:58 AM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. wrote: > Hello All, > > The wholesome and awesome goodness of the FreeDOS Installer Preview 14 is > now available. P14 contains many improvements over P13 including >

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS Installer Preview 14 - The Final Chapter.

Hello All, The wholesome and awesome goodness of the FreeDOS Installer Preview 14 is now available. P14 contains many improvements over P13 including auto-partitioning (when obvious), fixed FDIMPLES bug, MBR updating and many many more enhancements. http://up.lod.bz/FDI I also ran an tested

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2+ Preview 12 - Now with Dimples

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

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2+ Preview 12 - Now with Dimples

> On Feb 23, 2016, at 3:47 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > > > Hi Jerome, > >>> - user has another OS and DOS must not kill the boot menu without asking >>> >>> - user made a virtual computer for DOS, the disk contains nothing at all >> >> - user has some old hardware they want

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2+ Preview 12 - Now with Dimples

> On Feb 23, 2016, at 3:05 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > > > Hi! > >> Matuesz, I actually went and tested this. MS-DOS 6.22 [0] >> handles the MBR that same way as FDI [1] does. :/ Both leave a broken >> MBR, one that cannot boot into the newly installed DOS. > > Ouch. Note

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2+ Preview 12 - Now with Dimples

Hi! > Matuesz, I actually went and tested this. MS-DOS 6.22 [0] > handles the MBR that same way as FDI [1] does. :/ Both leave a broken > MBR, one that cannot boot into the newly installed DOS. Ouch. Note that MS DOS is from the time where nobody had any other operating system previously

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2+ Preview 12 - Now with Dimples

Preview 14, Is going to zap the MBR by default in normal mode. In advanced mode, this can be overridden. I may push Preview 14 out the door sometime today. Mostly, because I made a dumb mistake in FDIMPLES with search and replace. Completely breaking the detailed package selection in advanced

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2+ Preview 12 - Now with Dimples

Old knoppix distro live-cd has the option to boot knoppix linux or freedos, On the isolinux prompt type "dos" Sadly last time I tested they old pre1.0 freedos distro. I asked editor to use an updated freedos image but they take everything from debian repositories, and this is the Freedos

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2+ Preview 12 - Now with Dimples

On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 12:28 AM, Mateusz Viste wrote: > I'm going with Louis on this one. When installing FreeDOS, I'd expect > the installer to overwrite my MBR with clean boot code, so I don't have > any troubles booting FreeDOS post install. That's what MS-DOS did, and >

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2+ Preview 12 - Now with Dimples

> On Feb 23, 2016, at 8:54 AM, Corbin Davenport > wrote: > > Is there a possibility FreeDOS could install the GRUB manager by default on > PCs with multiple partitions? Or even go a step further and try to detect an > existing GRUB installation, and adding it's own

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2+ Preview 12 - Now with Dimples

Is there a possibility FreeDOS could install the GRUB manager by default on PCs with multiple partitions? Or even go a step further and try to detect an existing GRUB installation, and adding it's own menu item to it? Corbin On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 7:05 AM, Don Flowers wrote:

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2+ Preview 12 - Now with Dimples

OK - I have several PC's with varying modern installs (WIN7, WIN10, Xubuntu) residing along with various versions of MS-DOS and FreeDOS (even a custom FAT16 version of FreeDOS). I have created several rescue disks and yet there is always at least one install that either messes up my boot code

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2+ Preview 12 - Now with Dimples

Mateusz Viste composed on 2016-02-23 09:28 (UTC+0100): > I'm going with Louis on this one. When installing FreeDOS, I'd expect > the installer to overwrite my MBR with clean boot code, so I don't have > any troubles booting FreeDOS post install. That's what MS-DOS did, and > that's what I

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2+ Preview 12 - Now with Dimples

I'm going with Louis on this one. When installing FreeDOS, I'd expect the installer to overwrite my MBR with clean boot code, so I don't have any troubles booting FreeDOS post install. That's what MS-DOS did, and that's what I expect from any OS in fact. Naturally, an appropriately big warning

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2+ Preview 12 - Now with Dimples

On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 3:41 AM, Eric Auer wrote: > > Hi Louis and Jerome, > > as advanced user, I am against installers zapping my MBR without > even looking at it. I would need a bootable CD to repair my boot > menu, or would need to know how to do that with DOS. Enough

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2+ Preview 12 - Now with Dimples

Hi Louis and Jerome, as advanced user, I am against installers zapping my MBR without even looking at it. I would need a bootable CD to repair my boot menu, or would need to know how to do that with DOS. Enough users neither have boot repair CD prepared nor know how to use DOS tool methods for

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2+ Preview 12 - Now with Dimples

On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 2:05 AM, Jerome Shidel wrote: > This is a known problem that has been undergoing consideration on how best to > resolve the issue. The SYS command used by the installer does not force an > overwrite of the old boot code in the MBR. This would damage

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2+ Preview 12 - Now with Dimples

Hello Loius, > On Feb 22, 2016, at 4:04 AM, Louis Santillan wrote: > > So I did my testing. I guess I misremembered. MS-DOS 6.22 [0] > handles the MBR that same way as FDI [1] does. :/ Shame, but I think > this is one place where FDI could do better. > > > [0]

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2+ Preview 12 - Now with Dimples

So I did my testing. I guess I misremembered. MS-DOS 6.22 [0] handles the MBR that same way as FDI [1] does. :/ Shame, but I think this is one place where FDI could do better. [0] https://youtu.be/etnVOlW23XE [1] https://youtu.be/zKcCVZH7q3s On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 3:43 PM, Jerome E. Shidel

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2+ Preview 12 - Now with Dimples

There are a lot of major internal changes in 13. no sense testing 12. Anyhow 13, floppy an 32mb slim usb images are up. it will be about an hour for the 512mb image. Internet is very slow where I am at right now. http://up.lod.bz/FDI > On Feb 19, 2016, at 1:51 PM, Louis

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2+ Preview 12 - Now with Dimples

> On Feb 19, 2016, at 1:51 PM, Louis Santillan wrote: > > Hey all, > > I plan to do another test run with the hardware I have. 1.2p12 or 13, > which ever is available. 13 should be up in a few minutes or so. > > On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 3:46 PM, Jerome Shidel

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2+ Preview 12 - Now with Dimples

Hey all, I plan to do another test run with the hardware I have. 1.2p12 or 13, which ever is available. On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 3:46 PM, Jerome Shidel wrote: > >> On Feb 13, 2016, at 6:19 PM, Don Flowers wrote: >> >> I booted from the CD not USB , but my

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2+ Preview 12 - Now with Dimples

> On Feb 12, 2016, at 10:26 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > > > Hi Don, to make a PESSIMISTIC GUESS about the following: > >> Downloaded and burned to CD. >> Lots of "Error writing to drive A: DOS area write protection violation >> attempted" errors. Is there reason I am getting

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2+ Preview 12 - Now with Dimples

I booted from the CD not USB , but my extreme test machine has 3 hard drives wth various "C" drives among them. Even with XOSL hiding partitions, I think the installer may not be prepared for setting drives beyond "D;" "lastdrive=Z" notwithstanding. Your rewrite should do the trick.

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2+ Preview 12 - Now with Dimples

> On Feb 13, 2016, at 6:19 PM, Don Flowers wrote: > > I booted from the CD not USB , but my extreme test machine has 3 hard drives > wth various "C" drives among them. Even with XOSL hiding partitions, I think > the installer may not be prepared for setting drives beyond

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2+ Preview 12 - Now with Dimples

Downloaded and burned to CD. Lots of "Error writing to drive A: DOS area write protection violation attempted" errors. Is there reason I am getting this? On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 7:27 PM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. wrote: > Hello all, > > Just released FDI Preview 12. > > Some major

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2+ Preview 12 - Now with Dimples

Hello all, Just released FDI Preview 12. Some major non-UI underlying changes, for better performance and compatibility. Too many improvements and far to many things to list. Hopefully, this will be the last preview before FreeDOS 1.2 beta. Next, I intend on looking through the package lists

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 Preview 11

Hello Don, > On Feb 3, 2016, at 1:47 PM, Don Flowers wrote: > > Day after observation: I am getting an A: drive redirect when I try to copy > files by "COPY" command. One file will copy to the desired directory and then > it searches for the A: drive. Would this be a

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 Preview 11

It's the installed system - what was happening was I would type: "COPY *.ZIP C:\DOWNLOAD\ZIP" One file would copy to c:\download\zip, then the a: drive would click and I got the ever annoying "error copying to a: drive abort retry ignore?"; I could ignore and it would stop but the copy

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