Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS in a Qemu box.

2011-12-27 Thread James Hall
On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Tiago O. de Almeida toacyanide...@yahoo.com.br wrote: Are there any hints to install FreeDOS inside a Qemu box? I'm trying this right now, but the installation process is damn slow. This is the Qemu command line: qemu -cdrom ~/.qemu/fdbasecd.iso -hda

Re: [Freedos-user] Dictionnary program not working

2011-12-27 Thread James Hall
On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Shérab sebastien.hinde...@ens-lyon.org wrote: Dear all, I'm trying to use with Linux + dosemu + freedos a french dictionnary which was published about 20 years ago with a search program running under MS DOS. For the moment, I'm not able to make this program

Re: [Freedos-user] Dictionnary program not working

2011-12-27 Thread Sébastien Hinderer
Dear James, thank you so much for having taken the time to respond to my e-mail. Hi. I've never used a dictionary program on DOS before, so I can't offer any particular help on this problem. I've actually seen a report of this dictionnary not working, but I don't think any serious attempt to

Re: [Freedos-user] final preview for FreeDOS 1.1 release

2011-12-27 Thread Mark Brown
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[Freedos-user] FreeDOS Memory

2011-12-27 Thread Koh Choon Lin
Hi 1. Would like to ask how much memory does FreeDOS support, e.g. 4 GiB? 2. Does it faces 640 KiB limitation as MS-DOS, e.g. Do I have to load high drivers to save on conventional memory? 3. Does it support usage of a swap file/partition? -- Regards Koh Choon Lin

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Memory

2011-12-27 Thread Ralf A. Quint
At 11:08 AM 12/27/2011, Koh Choon Lin wrote: Hi 1. Would like to ask how much memory does FreeDOS support, e.g. 4 GiB? 2. Does it faces 640 KiB limitation as MS-DOS, e.g. Do I have to load high drivers to save on conventional memory? 3. Does it support usage of a swap file/partition? FreeDOS

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Memory

2011-12-27 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 27-12-2011 20:08, Koh Choon Lin schreef: Hi 1. Would like to ask how much memory does FreeDOS support, e.g. 4 GiB? Yes you'll be limited to a maximum of 4GB if you have 4GB or more. In practice this maximum could be anywhere between 2GB and 4GB (usually 3.3GB or 3.5GB) due to PCI chipset

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Memory

2011-12-27 Thread Koh Choon Lin
Hi 2. Does it faces 640 KiB limitation as MS-DOS, e.g. Do I have to load high drivers to save on conventional memory? Thanks for all the fast replies. I think my question is misunderstood. Load high is a MS-DOS technique to load drivers in the upper memory to save conventional memory. I

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Memory

2011-12-27 Thread Jack
1. Would like to ask how much memory does FreeDOS support, e.g. 4 GiB? Yes you'll be limited to a maximum of 4GB if you have 4GB or more. In practice this maximum could be anywhere between 2GB and 4GB (usually 3.3GB or 3.5GB) due to PCI chipset device mapping into the top of memory. On older

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Memory

2011-12-27 Thread Ralf A. Quint
At 11:49 AM 12/27/2011, Koh Choon Lin wrote: Hi 2. Does it faces 640 KiB limitation as MS-DOS, e.g. Do I have to load high drivers to save on conventional memory? Thanks for all the fast replies. I think my question is misunderstood. Load high is a MS-DOS technique to load drivers in the

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS in a Qemu box.

2011-12-27 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Eric Auer e.a...@jpberlin.de wrote: Are there any hints to install FreeDOS inside a Qemu box? I'm trying this right now, but the installation process is damn slow. This is the Qemu command line: Well Qemu emulates everything, including the CPU, as far

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Memory

2011-12-27 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, You've already got some good replies, but I'll try to add my (incomplete) knowledge for completeness (corrections welcome). On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Koh Choon Lin 2choon...@gmail.com wrote: 1. Would like to ask how much memory does FreeDOS support, e.g. 4 GiB? FreeDOS can run on

Re: [Freedos-user] Dictionnary program not working

2011-12-27 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 9:22 AM, Sébastien Hinderer sebastien.hinde...@ens-lyon.org wrote: I've actually seen a report of this dictionnary not working, but I don't think any serious attempt to understand and perhaps fix the problem had been undertaken so far. It will be hard to fix when

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Memory

2011-12-27 Thread dmccunney
On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Koh Choon Lin 2choon...@gmail.com wrote: 1. Would like to ask how much memory does FreeDOS support, e.g. 4 GiB? It's an open source clone of MS-DOS, which is a 16 bit real mode OS. It can see up to one megabyte of RAM as usable memory. Beyond that, you must