[Freedos-user] Updated draft of "FreeDOS 28" book

Hi everyone I've uploaded draft #2 of the "FreeDOS 28" book to GitLab. https://gitlab.com/freedosproject/freedos28 This project is very late, and that's a "me" problem. This is the last time I take on this many extra classes - I overloaded myself. :-P Draft 2 is mostly formatting fixes (gluing l

[Freedos-user] best DOS repair tools for newer machines?

Hi all, My desktop, runs ms dos 7. At the moment it is suffering from dust in the case, sometimes booting, sometimes not. because my drives are large, I have two hard drives, and in theory the partitions are large, 2 that are 19 gig, and 2 that are 10gig, my copy of norton utilities for DOS ca

Re: [Freedos-user] Updated draft of "FreeDOS 28" book

Thanks, Jim: Draft 2 is mostly formatting fixes (gluing lines together, some minor formatting) but no content changes yet. I took a brief squiz. But I didn't see images. Therefore please illustrate it. I recommend parsing the text through this readability checker. https://www.online-utilit

[Freedos-user] System hangs on boot.

I have a physical AMD 386DX 40Mhz system. It runs MS dos ok but hangs when booting freedoms. BIOS post completes, says Loading FreeDOS then hangs. CTRL+ALT+DEL reboots but still hangs. I'm using a CF card at my hdd. It's a 4g card with a 512mb partition. This is all the BIOS sees. This works unde