[Freedos-user] FreeDOS and virtualbox

2011-10-07 Thread Ulrich Hansen
I had time to work with freedos in virtualbox the last two days. I experienced some odd overheating problems. The Macbook Pro I used was getting hot at the bottom and shut down automatically. It seems that FreeDOS grabs all the CPU power it finds. The Activity Monitor (Applications - Utilities)

Re: [Freedos-user] Weird UIDE.SYS (FreeDOS 1.1 Test) behavior under VirtualBox

2011-10-07 Thread Ulrich Hansen
I am opening this conversation again about CD support in VirtualBox: It is true that the delay of UIDE at boot can be solved by selecting ICH9 and Enable IO APIC in VirtualBox (> System->Motherboard). Unfortunately this breaks networking in VirtualBox 4.0.12 and 4.1.4. The PCNTPK packet driver v

[Freedos-user] New 7-Oct-2011 UIDE Drivers, Fixing A "BUG" In The "EDD BIOS"!

2011-10-07 Thread Jack
Johnson Lam has posted an updated 7-Oct-2011 DRIVERS.ZIP file on his website, at . The site still has a "Last Update" date of 9-30, but the files which download ARE dated 10-07-2011 and have been verified O.K. This update is not more driver improvements

Re: [Freedos-user] Announce: vmsmount, a driver for mounting VMware's shared folders in DOS

2011-10-07 Thread Michael B. Brutman
Eduardo, Congratulations on writing a network file redirector. I've been mulling this over for a while, trying to build up the nerve to do it. I have "Undocumented DOS, 2nd Ed" as well, and now with this code I have two different samples to work with. I noticed that it doesn't support older

[Freedos-user] FDAPM

2011-10-07 Thread Marcos Favero Florence de Barros
Ulrich Hansen wrote: > I had time to work with freedos in virtualbox the last two days. I > experienced some odd overheating problems. The Macbook Pro I used was > getting hot at the bottom and shut down automatically. > It seems that FreeDOS grabs all the CPU power it finds. The Activity > Monito