Re: [Freedos-user] boot cd freedos 1.1 + panasonic usb drivers
Op 4-9-2011 0:26, Eric Auer schreef: Let me see... ~/fdbasecd-remastered.iso is the output file, in your home ~ directory. Isolinux.bin is the boot menu software, I found it on my Ubuntu after installing isolinux (I guess) in /usr/lib/syslinux/isolinux.bin but you should also be able do download it or re-use the one from FreeDOS. http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/syslinux-4.04.zip The isolinux.bin is identical, but patched/updated whenever creating a bootCD. The location isolinux/isolinux.bin is where mkisofs puts or expects the file. Note that for me, mkisofs is an alias for genisoimage, not sure what the difference between both is. License stuff. MKISOFS/CDRECORD using CDDL after having used GPL for a while, CDRKIT/GenIsoImage using GPL2. Both are available for DOS as well: * http://sites.google.com/site/blairdude/cdrkit * http://bootcd.narod.ru/index_e.htm The boot.cat file is the boot catalog location in the ISO that you create - the file is made by mkisofs and contains El Torito boot properties. Option -no-emul-boot means that you do not use a floppy image to boot. If you have one, it can be e.g. 1440k or 2880k, then you do not need ISOLINUX, but there are some other pros and cons. yep required CD drivers for the interface your CD-drive is on. I wonder if booting Win98 CD works on USB CD-drives, doubt it, as it uses an ATAPI driver. (ELTORITO.SYS cd-driver works also for USB CD booted in no-emulation mode..unless loading your own USB stack). Also by default the floppy part is read-only, which means whenever accessing it, the CD has to be in the drive. The main point is that you can modify the contents of /tmp/fdbasecd-contents/ to fit your needs and make the ISO that you like :-) Note that when booting ISOLINUX, a small compressed floppy image is booted first, which has the DOS start-up files and drivers... The bulk of the install data (ZIPs with packaged DOS software) is outside the image, simply in /tmp/fdbasecd-contents/. Eric (I hope this was all correct :-)) pretty much yes. An emulator with working floppy(-image) which can be easily altered, is easiest. Then when done, use the floppy image for bootcd. Personally I'd prefer an as-small-as-possible boot image which loads the required drivers before accessing CD. Reason is some computers make USB storage boot up at 1.1-speeds, effectively limiting read spead to single-speed CD-ROM. -- Special Offer -- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! And you'll get a free Love Thy Logs t-shirt when you download Logger. Secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsisghtdev2dev ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] boot cd freedos 1.1 + panasonic usb drivers
Hi again, If all you need is to make your own .ISO to burn to CD, try this: mkisofs -R -D -V FreeDOS 1.1rc1 -o ~/fdbasecd-remastered.iso \ -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat \ -no-emul-boot \-boot-load-size 4 \ -boot-info-table /tmp/fdbasecd-contents/ On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 1:31 AM, iw2evk marinellucc...@tiscali.it wrote: Rugxulo wrote: On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 5:03 AM, iw2evk marinellucc...@tiscali.it wrote: for working with some pc programmable radio transceivers, i' need a bootable cd with freedos and panasonic usb drivers (di100'ddanf usbaspi etc). Sounds complicated. :-) I've tried the bets cd from freedos 1.1. but failed emm management and breth usb drivers. Have you tried latest test #3 ? Do you have access to a working floppy drive? Yes, i've used release 3. Ireload via command line jemm after failure , but usb driver found a legacy .Bios don't have a choice for usb legacy, so i 've loadede usb driver with usb legacy remove option.When i load usbdrive , the system hang up! Try using F8 to avoid (J)EMM386. Does that help? BTW, make sure to use Bret's latest, but even that is UHCI only. How i can create a bootable cd rom with freedos 1.1. full and panasonic drivers. Now i run on main pc Linux puppy lucid 5.2.5 and on older pc without usb fredoos 1.0 How old? It can't be that old (before 2000) if you're using USB. You may have to roll your own .ISO via mkisofs or similar. Unfortunately, I don't think we're allowed to redistribute Panasonic drivers. My second pc , where now running kenwood and ascom radio service software it'a a toshiba t 1950tc bios date 1993 , no usb, no cd only floppy. My other pc have usb /cd rw but NOT floppy (i've buy a chinese usb floppy on e bay). So i can't transfer configuration files for radio from one pc to other. I find it somewhat hard to believe that you need full FreeDOS install here. Try just manually grabbing BASE (plus maybe UTIL) and whatever extras you need. In releade 3 cd i've found in install/ odin/ the new software, but this is not a bootable disk for reistall on older pc last version of freedos. P.S. (Sorry this isn't as helpful as I would've liked.) Many thanks for your help , very friendly -- Special Offer -- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! And you'll get a free Love Thy Logs t-shirt when you download Logger. Secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsisghtdev2dev ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] boot cd freedos 1.1 + panasonic usb drivers
Hi, If all you need is to make your own .ISO to burn to CD, try this: mkisofs -R -D -V FreeDOS 1.1rc1 -o ~/fdbasecd-remastered.iso \ -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat \ -no-emul-boot \-boot-load-size 4 \ -boot-info-table /tmp/fdbasecd-contents/ Let me see... ~/fdbasecd-remastered.iso is the output file, in your home ~ directory. Isolinux.bin is the boot menu software, I found it on my Ubuntu after installing isolinux (I guess) in /usr/lib/syslinux/isolinux.bin but you should also be able do download it or re-use the one from FreeDOS. The single letter options are -D allow deep directories (without relocation, should require ISO9660:1999, but why?) and -R for Rock Ridge SUSP/RR (long file names or such?). The -V option is obvious, it sets the volume ID / label to FreeDOS 1.1rc :-) The location isolinux/isolinux.bin is where mkisofs puts or expects the file. Note that for me, mkisofs is an alias for genisoimage, not sure what the difference between both is. The boot.cat file is the boot catalog location in the ISO that you create - the file is made by mkisofs and contains El Torito boot properties. Option -no-emul-boot means that you do not use a floppy image to boot. If you have one, it can be e.g. 1440k or 2880k, then you do not need ISOLINUX, but there are some other pros and cons. I think the \ before -boot-load-size 4 is wrong: Basically you can always put a \ at the end of a line to say that the linebreak has no meaning and your command continues. Not sure about -boot-info-table option. The last option is simply where you have the files which will be in the ISO, so /tmp/fdbasecd-contents/dos/ will be in the dos directory of your ISO / CD / DVD later. You can write the whole command either as: mkisofs -R -D -V FreeDOS 1.1rc1 -o ~/fdbasecd-remastered.iso \ -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat \ -no-emul-boot \ -boot-load-size 4 \ -boot-info-table /tmp/fdbasecd-contents/ or in one line as: mkisofs -R -D -V FreeDOS 1.1rc1 -o ~/fdbasecd-remastered.iso -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table /tmp/fdbasecd-contents/ The main point is that you can modify the contents of /tmp/fdbasecd-contents/ to fit your needs and make the ISO that you like :-) Note that when booting ISOLINUX, a small compressed floppy image is booted first, which has the DOS start-up files and drivers... The bulk of the install data (ZIPs with packaged DOS software) is outside the image, simply in /tmp/fdbasecd-contents/. Eric (I hope this was all correct :-)) -- Special Offer -- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! And you'll get a free Love Thy Logs t-shirt when you download Logger. Secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsisghtdev2dev ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] boot cd freedos 1.1 + panasonic usb drivers
Hi, On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 5:03 AM, iw2evk marinellucc...@tiscali.it wrote: for working with some pc programmable radio transceivers, i' need a bootable cd with freedos and panasonic usb drivers (di100'ddanf usbaspi etc). Sounds complicated. :-) I've tried the bets cd from freedos 1.1. but failed emm management and breth usb drivers. Have you tried latest test #3 ? Do you have access to a working floppy drive? Try using F8 to avoid (J)EMM386. Does that help? BTW, make sure to use Bret's latest, but even that is UHCI only. How i can create a bootable cd rom with freedos 1.1. full and panasonic drivers. Now i run on main pc Linux puppy lucid 5.2.5 and on older pc without usb fredoos 1.0 How old? It can't be that old (before 2000) if you're using USB. You may have to roll your own .ISO via mkisofs or similar. Unfortunately, I don't think we're allowed to redistribute Panasonic drivers. I find it somewhat hard to believe that you need full FreeDOS install here. Try just manually grabbing BASE (plus maybe UTIL) and whatever extras you need. P.S. (Sorry this isn't as helpful as I would've liked.) -- Special Offer -- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! And you'll get a free Love Thy Logs t-shirt when you download Logger. Secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsisghtdev2dev ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] boot cd freedos 1.1 + panasonic usb drivers
Hi, I don't think we're allowed to redistribute Panasonic drivers. Didn't the 1.0 distribution have a package that used wget to install the drivers? I don't remember if it was those drivers but there were two packages using wget to get around distribution issues. PS did this reply to the mailing list? It turns out that thunder bird has 2 reply options one for list and one another message and I've been using the wrong one. -- Special Offer -- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! And you'll get a free Love Thy Logs t-shirt when you download Logger. Secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsisghtdev2dev ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Boot to FreeDOS?
Hi, Hello Sorry if this has been asked before. I could not find definitive answers in the FAQs. 1. I have an old DOS program that used to run under Windows-98. It is the Giebler MIDI converter series of programs. 2. Under Windows XP this garners a runtime error 200 (doesn't matter if I open a CMD window or not) 3. When I boot in the old Microsoft DOS 6.22 diskette that I kept, the program continues to report the same error. This means that the program was compiled using TurboPascal. You need to get a patch for it (Google at TP RunTime Error 200 patch), it is unrelated to whichever DOS you run it on. Now to the FreeDOS question: 4. If I create the DOS diskette with the fdos1440.img and the rawreite.exe will I end up with a disk that I can use similarly to the old DOS 6.22 disk. That is to say, will it boot to FreeDOS and present me with a DOS prompt? Will I be able to execute the program, do you think? If I'm not wrong, it will give you the option to either install FreeDOS or end to the commandline prompt. 5. More importantly, will this diskette in any way alter my master hard drive (Windows XP) by writing anything to it? This is what I hope to avoid. Do not SYS or transfer system to your hard drive. There are already documented ways to double-boot with WinXP if you wish to (search the documentation and wikis). Aitor --- 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://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idv37alloc_id865op=click ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
RE: [Freedos-user] Boot to FreeDOS?
Hello Sorry if this has been asked before. I could not find definitive answers in the FAQs. 1. I have an old DOS program that used to run under Windows-98. It is the Giebler MIDI converter series of programs. 2. Under Windows XP this garners a runtime error 200 (doesn't matter if I open a CMD window or not) Bernd was faster than me in provide a solution. I advise you to use this: * TpPatch to patch the .EXE if you don't have the source of the program. http://www.brain.uni-freiburg.de/~klaus/pascal/runerr200/download.html#TpPatch * T7TplFix if you have the Turbo/Borland Pascal 7.0 compiler and the sources of the program. http://www.brain.uni-freiburg.de/~klaus/pascal/runerr200/download.html#T7TplFix Hope this helps. __ Renovamos el Correo Yahoo! Nuevos servicios, más seguridad http://correo.yahoo.es --- 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://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637alloc_id=16865op=click ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Boot to FreeDOS?
Theta Sigma schreef: 1. I have an old DOS program that used to run under Windows-98. It is the Giebler MIDI converter series of programs. 2. Under Windows XP this garners a runtime error 200 (doesn't matter if I open a CMD window or not) sounds like the program was created in the programming language Pascal, which exposed your problem if it was run on computers with a processor speed of 200MHz or more. Either use a patch (I hope someone can point you to it) or use a system slowdown utility. 4. If I create the DOS diskette with the fdos1440.img and the rawreite.exe will I end up with a disk that I can use similarly to the old DOS 6.22 disk. That is to say, will it boot to FreeDOS and present me with a DOS prompt? Will I be able to execute the program, do you think? Only new disks will allow you to reach the console, as indeed the disk is intended to gain access to cdrom and to install freedos. See above for your original problem. I recommend to obtain one of the so called ODIN (One Disk Installation) disks. Contrary to its name, it's a disk with only programs on it, and it won't touch the harddisk. The only installation part is manual work if the user desires so (fdisk, format c: , sys c: and xcopy /s a:\*.* c:\freedos\ ). Please get the disk (you still need rawrite) from the following site: http://wiki.fdos.org/Distribution/Beta9SR2readme (still work in progress for a few more days) 5. More importantly, will this diskette in any way alter my master hard drive (Windows XP) by writing anything to it? This is what I hope to avoid. Nope, we've had that error once, my mistake that time. It destroyed the Windows bootloader (actually the bootsector, which points to the bootloader) Thanks - the FAQ was not clear if this is a simple boot disk - seemed to indicate that it is, instead, a diskette that installs DOS. http://fdos.org/bootdisks/ also seems to contain several FreeDOS bootdisk files. Bernd --- 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://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637alloc_id=16865op=click ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
