Re: [Freedos-user] ping?

2005-10-31 Thread Gerry Hickman
Hi Bernd, If you have the opportunity to test EMM386 before taking a machine into production use.. Michael Devore will appreciate it :) I did post my findings in earlier posts such as "FreeDOS kicks some serious ass", but I'll summarize here: First it's important to note that it's not just

Re: [Freedos-user] ping?

2005-10-31 Thread Blair Campbell
> OK, but who on earth is going to be running Win9x setup from within > FreeDOS?! I'm not sure what this achieves? I can answer in the In my case, the Win98 install will not work on my computer when I boot from the Win98 CD-ROM. This is where a FreeDOS bootdisk comes in handy, to start the instal

Re: [Freedos-user] ping?

2005-10-31 Thread Blair Campbell
> just like opensource SMB for DOS..everything relies on MS TCP/IP stack, here is an open-source SMB library which uses wattcp, if anyone wants to work on it. http://www.bgnett.no/~giva/misc/dossmb02.zip --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by th

Re: [Freedos-user] ping?

2005-10-31 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Johnson Lam schreef: 8086 with FAT32 simultaneous is not practical. Maybe someone still own a 8086 PC but please consider support from 80386, because today's DOS program or XMS is for 80386. we're just mentioning that should run on 8086, and that they should support fat32. Not that FAT32 on 8

Re: [Freedos-user] ping?

2005-10-31 Thread Johnson Lam
On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 22:01:32 +0100, you wrote: Hi Gerry, >I don't really understand the interest in this. Why would anyone want to >"install" it? I mean we all have CD-ROM and bootable memory sticks these >days. Why not just release a bunch of files and let people write their >own installers.

Re: [Freedos-user] ping?

2005-10-28 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Gerry Hickman schreef: Surely it's way ahead of any real-mode o/s Microsoft has ever written? I'm already using it (with the help of umbpci) to build production servers with the latest hardware. MS-DOS 5 and 6 are unusable on these boxes. MS-DOS FDISK isn't scriptable, and can't cope with huge

Re: [Freedos-user] ping?

2005-10-28 Thread Gerry Hickman
Hi Bernd, and 1.0 Preview series should start in Januari 2006. No point rushing it:) If we only would have to consider the same goals as Microsoft's DOS 5.00, then we're at 99% currently. Surely it's way ahead of any real-mode o/s Microsoft has ever written? I'm already using it (with the

Re: [Freedos-user] ping?

2005-10-28 Thread Bernd Blaauw
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: BTW: when we can expect 1.0? End of next year. For what still needs to be done, please see http://wiki.fdos.org/Main/Todo_1_0 Delaying 1.0 beyond next year would make no sense, the amount of DOS users is limited. Already FreeDOS is very stable and usable, yet stil

Re: [Freedos-user] ping?

2005-10-28 Thread seorge
BTW: when we can expect 1.0? --- Original message --- From: Bernd Blaauw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] ping? Date: Friday 28 October 2005 17:25 > pong > > > Hello out there, > > > > six days without

Re: [Freedos-user] ping?

2005-10-28 Thread Bernd Blaauw
pong Hello out there, six days without a single message on this list... is there something wrong with my email account or the list? Nope, just a quiet list during the week. Weekend might be more email traffic. I guess people are waiting for each other to advance in FreeDOS development and use

[Freedos-user] ping?

2005-10-28 Thread Andre Tertling
Hello out there, six days without a single message on this list... is there something wrong with my email account or the list? Best regards, Andre --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the JBoss Inc. Get Certified Today * Register for a JBo