Re: [Freedos-user] Installation difficulties...

2009-03-20 Thread Michael Reichenbach
John Ames schrieb: > Okay. I would really like to use FreeDOS, preferrably the full-install CD, > and definitely with USB disk support. Problem is, the NIC in the computer I > want to install it on (a 3Com 3C595-TX) does not appear to be recognized by > either the default packet driver or the manuf

Re: [Freedos-user] unload previsiously loaded exe and sys on fdconfig.sys

2009-03-20 Thread Fabrício Ceolin
Hi, Thanks everybody. Reboot it's not a option. I'm creating a script for bios update. Part of process is access a TCP/IP net, but I need to free memory to run a update executable. I'll try using a TERMIN.COM and report it! Best regards! On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 3:47 AM, bwspos wrote: > > > Fa

Re: [Freedos-user] Installation difficulties...

2009-03-20 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Eric Auer schrieb: > Hi, > >> Okay. I would really like to use FreeDOS, preferrably the full-install CD, >> and definitely with USB disk support. Problem is, the NIC in the computer I > > On modern PC, your BIOS already does USB disk support for you and DOS. You mean USB legacy support (for stor

Re: [Freedos-user] unload previsiously loaded exe and sys on fdconfig.sys

2009-03-20 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Do BIOS update 100 % step by step as the manual says. No experiments wit h DOS versions, TSR's, boot medium (if you shall use legacy floppy then do so). Otherwise you risk the BIOS update to fail as the developers did not thought about your modified use. Ok, well you can experiment if you have the

Re: [Freedos-user] unload previsiously loaded exe and sys on fdconfig.sys

2009-03-20 Thread Fabrício Ceolin
Hi On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 10:12 AM, Michael Reichenbach < michael_reichenb...@freenet.de> wrote: > Do BIOS update 100 % step by step as the manual says. No experiments wit > h DOS versions, TSR's, boot medium (if you shall use legacy floppy then > do so). Otherwise you risk the BIOS update to fa

Re: [Freedos-user] unload previsiously loaded exe and sys on fdconfig.sys

2009-03-20 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Michael, > Do BIOS update 100 % step by step as the manual says. No experiments wit > h DOS versions, TSR's, boot medium (if you shall use legacy floppy then > do so). Otherwise you risk the BIOS update to fail as the developers did > not thought about your modified use. I agree that unloadin

Re: [Freedos-user] unload previsiously loaded exe and sys on fdconfig.sys

2009-03-20 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Eric Auer schrieb: > Hi Michael, > >> Do BIOS update 100 % step by step as the manual says. No experiments wit >> h DOS versions, TSR's, boot medium (if you shall use legacy floppy then >> do so). Otherwise you risk the BIOS update to fail as the developers did >> not thought about your modified u

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on Virtual PC 2007

2009-03-20 Thread Robert Riebisch
Michael Horvath wrote: > Option #2 (the default, and the one that doesn't work) results in the > following error: > > "Illegal instruction occured. > CS= IP=EEC3 SS=D0B4 SP=0004 ES=0070 > ...etc... > ...etc... > Aborting program > EMM386 - unable to continue - Please reboot=" Ben Armstr

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on Virtual PC 2007

2009-03-20 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Robert, Shane, > Ben Armstrong ("a Program manager on the core virtualization team > at Microsoft") recommends the following for MS-DOS on > http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2004/10/21/246136.aspx Note that this is from 2004 so it cannot be about Virtual PC 2007 ;-) > device=C:\D

[Freedos-user] Installation problems

2009-03-20 Thread Braden C. Roberson-Mailloux
Hi guys; I've formatted my hard disk, installed the boot manager using the option in xfdisk and installed freedos. Yet, LILO continues to remain the boot manager on my hard disk and only shows LINUX as an available kernel. I just received a 8-bit PIC microcontroller with a low pin developm

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on Virtual PC 2007

2009-03-20 Thread Michael Horvath
Robert Riebisch wrote: >> "Line #1 in batchfile 'A:\INSTALL.BAT' too long" > > Please post the first line of "A:\INSTALL.BAT". > > Robert Riebisch Good catch! When I read the batch file in FreeDOS the file is full of gibberish. In Notepad on my WinXP machine, however, it is a properly formatte