Re: [Freedos-user] Any Windows files useful for FreeDOS?

2013-05-23 Thread dos386
I got an old laptop with Windows 2000 Professional (NT). I will now change the file system to FAT16, and install FreeDOS Cool :-) Would such drivers for Windows be of any use in FreeDOS? MSVCRT.DLL, other MSVC*.DLL, CRTDLL.DLL, GLUE32.DLL ... maybe ReaCTOS will replace them one day? WHINE

Re: [Freedos-user] Any Windows files useful for FreeDOS?

2013-05-23 Thread dmccunney
On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 6:11 AM, dos386 dos...@gmail.com wrote: See above. All the DOS apps I use run in a console window under 2K with NTVDM. I am *not* a gamer, and don't run DOS games that use graphics and write to video memory. All of my stuff is character mode Obsessed by NTVDM ...

Re: [Freedos-user] Any Windows files useful for FreeDOS?

2013-05-17 Thread dmccunney
On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: Actually, if you're lucky enough to have Win2k installed atop FAT32, you can probably just use a DOS utilitity like FIPS or PRESZ134 to resize for you. Hmmm, well, you obviously don't need a separate partition for DOS in that

Re: [Freedos-user] Any Windows files useful for FreeDOS?

2013-05-17 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 9:54 PM, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 8:03 PM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 6:48 PM, Marcos Favero Florence de Barros fav...@mpcnet.com.br wrote: I got an old laptop with Windows 2000 Professional

Re: [Freedos-user] Any Windows files useful for FreeDOS?

2013-05-17 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 12:18 PM, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: Actually, if you're lucky enough to have Win2k installed atop FAT32 Lucky? One of the things I was *happy* about in moving from Win98SE to

Re: [Freedos-user] Any Windows files useful for FreeDOS?

2013-05-17 Thread dmccunney
On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 9:54 PM, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote: I have an ancient Fujitsu Lifebook p2110, It came with WinXP SP2, I swapped the 30GB HD for a 40GB from my SOs failed laptop, repartitioned, and

Re: [Freedos-user] Any Windows files useful for FreeDOS?

2013-05-17 Thread dmccunney
On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 2:22 PM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 12:18 PM, dmccunney dennis.mccun...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: Actually, if you're lucky enough to have Win2k installed atop FAT32 Lucky?

Re: [Freedos-user] Any Windows files useful for FreeDOS?

2013-05-16 Thread Marco Achury
El 16/05/2013 07:18 p.m., Marcos Favero Florence de Barros escribió: Hi, I got an old laptop with Windows 2000 Professional (NT). I will now change the file system to FAT16, and install FreeDOS. However, before erasing Windows, I'm wondering whether there are files, such as drivers or some

Re: [Freedos-user] Any Windows files useful for FreeDOS?

2013-05-16 Thread Marcos Favero Florence de Barros
Hi, I got an old laptop with Windows 2000 Professional (NT). I will now change the file system to FAT16, and install FreeDOS. Can't you dual boot?? [..] Search Google for boot.ini or such. I did, and found the procedure much too complicated. In fact, the reason why I use FreeDOS in the

Re: [Freedos-user] Any Windows files useful for FreeDOS?

2013-05-16 Thread dmccunney
On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 8:03 PM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 6:48 PM, Marcos Favero Florence de Barros fav...@mpcnet.com.br wrote: I got an old laptop with Windows 2000 Professional (NT). I will now change the file system to FAT16, and install FreeDOS. Can't you