Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS kicks some serious Ass!

2005-07-11 Thread Johnson Lam
On Sat, 09 Jul 2005 14:06:29 +0100, you wrote: Hi Gerry, I'd been building and testing PCs using Dos622 with MSCLIENT 3.0, but kept runing into limitations, conflicts and lack of memory. I tried Win95 and Win98 boot disks instead, but things got even worse. A brand new server had 4Gb of

Re: [Freedos-user] NTFS4DOS and UMBPCI.SYS?!?!

2005-07-11 Thread kd4d
Hi Michael: Thanks. I took that straight out of the documentation. I need to check that boot disk and make sure I caught that. Could have been the problem. And, I do know better! :-) Mark At 11:08 PM 7/10/2005 +, Mark Bailey wrote: SWITCHES=/F DOS=HIGH,UMB DEVICEHIGH=a:\HIMEM.SYS

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS kicks some serious Ass!

2005-07-11 Thread Mark Bailey
You can install FreeDOS on a new computer and have it dual-boot with Windows XP as well. This doesn't harm the WindowsXP installation at all and doesn't require re-installing WindowsXP. You just put FreeDOS on a trivial amount of disk space at the end of the drive. I worked out a detailed

Re: [Freedos-user] How to build a boot diskette for NTFS4DOS?

2005-07-11 Thread Bernd Blaauw
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: Hi All: OK, I'm confused. I want to try to get NTFS4DOS working from a bootable CD and loaded into high memory (using DEVICEHIGH). My first attempt was a failure and resulted in an out of memory error. I forget the exact message. Despite me also sending a CC to

Re: [Freedos-user] Re: FreeCOM + Win98

2005-07-11 Thread Brolin
Jose Antonio Senna wrote: It did appear yesterday on this list: sure whether Win98's COMMAND.COM can be configured to default to insert mode instead of overwrite. I do not have the MS-DOS version which comes with Win98, but MS-DOS 5 can be so configured by using DOSKEY /INSERT or

[Freedos-user] NTFS4DOS and FreeDOS - Works with UMBPCI, Fails with EMM386

2005-07-11 Thread Mark Bailey
Good day all: After some help and advice from Eric Auer and Michael Devore, I have NTFS4DOS working and loading high with FreeDOS! However, I have been unable to get it to load high with EMM386. I am using the latest development kernel, emm204x, and the latest UMBPCI. MEM reports 213K

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS kicks some serious Ass!

2005-07-11 Thread Johnson Lam
On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 09:03:58 -0400, you wrote: Hi Mark, You can install FreeDOS on a new computer and have it dual-boot with Windows XP as well. This doesn't harm the WindowsXP installation at all and doesn't require re-installing WindowsXP. You just put FreeDOS on a trivial amount of disk

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS kicks some serious Ass!

2005-07-11 Thread kd4d
Hi Johnson: My attempts have been very successful. The FreeDOS installer has problems if the WindowsXP partition is FAT32...it insists on writing a boot sector to C: no matter what. Just don't use the installer and SYS the disk manually and copy files over. The procedure I wrote up is a bit