Hello list,
I'd like to boot FreeDOS from CD. Henc I'm searching FDBOOTCD.ISO -
Google did not return any source and as far as I read the docs there is
no such image as FreeDOS needs to have a writable drive. Am I right or
just clumsy?
Best regards
file that looks like a bootable
dos-CD-image.
Is there really an image ready to boot contained in fd11src.iso? And if
so: Can you help me with the file's name, please?
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I want to get *FreeDOS* going within *qemu*.
Quite a long time ago I downloaded the respective iso-file and the
installation went well.
In principle *FreeDOS* works fine with the exception of networking. I
simply can´t get qemu to let *FreeDOS* connect to the internet.
(Formerl
Hi all, 😁
I have _*FreeDOS 1.2*_ running in a virtual machine (KVM/qemu). My host
is Linux/Lubuntu 20.04.4 LTS, 64 bit.
There´s one "mystery" regarding FreeDOS though.
Here´s an example to demonstrate the "problem":
I have a text-file, say "try.txt".
What does work are the commands
"type
Hello Jim, 😁
thanks very much for your reply.
I see. Well, that´s good to know.
Not that it bothers me in any way at all. I just wanted to know if that
behaviour was to be expected (at least in version 1.2.)
I hope to be able to download FreeDOS version 1.3 soon.
I was looking around a bit
youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=irJQDGw8Ptk
It's a nice app for retro DOS addicted. ;-)
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So that you can easy run FD 1.1 with Qemu on Windows by executing a
run.bat. For Linux users like me I would put a run.sh into the ZIP
file, too, but Qemu executables just for the Windows users. :-)
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means you can only ping the local router
(10.0.2.2)."
http://wiki.qemu.org/download/qemu-doc.html
Hope that helps.
BTW: I think the installation of FreeDOS with network
support in VirtualBox is easier:
http://freedos.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/VirtualBox
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6.4 from a pen drive. It should work with 486 PCs
and greater.
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Am Mon, 01 Sep 2014 13:07:09 +0200
schrieb "Matej Horvat" :
> How did you write the ISO image to the flash device? Maybe you can
> try Rufus:
>
> http://rufus.akeo.ie/
>
> Don'
.
if someone has the answer before i attempts something tha tkill my pc =)
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ISO. For a BIOS update
> you don't usually need a memory driver, you just want to boot successfully
> into a FreeDOS environment.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 8:16 AM, Leborgne Christian
> wrote:
>>
>> hi everybody
>> don t know if i m on right mailing l
.
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Am Mi. Dez. 30 19:33:39 2015 GMT+0100 schrieb Alain Mouette:
> ???
> I just made this experimental in a VirtualBox VM and it arouse no
> interest here...
>
> Alain
>
> On 30-12-2015 14:47, Aitor Santamaría wrote:
> > +1 to this idea
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nteresting discussion about Bios
Updates on Dell machines on AskUbuntu:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/100945/how-do-i-update-the-bios-of-a-dell-laptop
Seems that there are different ways to update the Bios on a Dell and that
it depends on how old the computer is.
Wish you luck.
Kind regards
to some versions.
Yes, maybe the bugs are/bug is limited to some versions.
> which could then overwrite things in RAM,
Which would be a bug.
> Jumping to 0:0 could mean a pointer/handler is used before being set.
Good ca
t are used and their versions, that might help.
Can you reproduce the crash with a minimal (dummy) TSR? Could you make a
TSR available that causes this crash?
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Yes, details would help. I would strongly recommend you to update your
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Please release a stable build as soon as you have fixed that bug!
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Seems like it's related to some new hardware stuff that broke floppy DMA.
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wcl386 and wcc386 are related to wcl and wcc and I think they are used for
(or default to) 32-bit development. I dunno a
The live CD isn't
intended for this usage. You can update the writeable installation with
newer programs then, too.
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d.
So while checking for a directory's existence with this method might work
in non-DOS NT batch scripts, it can't be relied upon because the NTVDM's
DOS interfaces appear not to find device names.
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This would indicate NTVDM-DOS's FindFirst and FindNext are broken
(incompatible) in some way as you suggested.
I didn't get into the specifics earlier 'cause I didn't think it was
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>> Now that mTCP is Free Software, I think the next version of FreeDOS
>> should focus on getting basic networking abilities.
> Well, relatively free. A certain group of people are aghast that I used
> GPL v3 - apparently that is not free enough for them. I'm getting a
> good laugh out of that c
f PRTSCR
would be simpler, and would suffice in at least most cases.
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this directory and than I start FA511.COM. The latter
one ends with an error message:
FA511-DOS-104: No NIC found in the machine.
I think my PCMCIA slot is not recognized by FreeDOS. What do I need to get
my PCMCIA card working?
Hardware is ok because it works with Linux.
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:\AUTOEXEC.BAT
12?SHELLHIGH=C:\FDOS\BIN\COMMAND.COM C:\FDOS\BIN /E:1024 /P=C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT
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>
>
> On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 2:41 AM, Christian Imhorst
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have installed FreeDos 1.1 on my Toshiba Tecra 8000. Now
choose the hard disk as your active partion.
Now you can proceed with FreeDOS installation.
Hope that will help you.
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2014-08-24 3:27 GMT+02:00 DOSforever :
> first all, I'm not good at english. I don't know if I expressed correctly.
>
> I burned fd11s
with FAT16 or FAT32. Otherwise
it won't be recognized by the FreeDOS installer. When this is done you
can proceed with FreeDOS installation.
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Am 01.09.2014 12:46, schrieb DOSforever:
> *Hi, Christian *
>
> Thank you very much for your detailed reply, because I&#x
to emulate the
network card with Qemu 2.1.0:
qemu[-system-i386] -fda metados.img -boot a -net nic,model=pcnet -net user
The part inside the parentheses is optional (at least under Debian).
And thanks for VISIT.BAT. It's quite revealing. :-)
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Christian
Am 27.09.2014 um 17:00 sc
Hi,
I have a 500MB FreeDOS partition on a 4 GB virtual hard disk. The rest of
the disk is empty. Is it possible to resize the 500 MB to the whole disk
without losing data? Do I use FDISK for this or another program?
Thanks in advance.
Best regards
Christian
Hi all,
thank you very much for your great suggestions. Especially FIPS and
Partition Resizer. I tried both, but I am only able to resize partitions
with these programs and not to merge two partions to one.
I'll try GParted and hope it will do it well.
Thanks a lot.
Christian
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not working)
- xfdisk offers FAT32 but DEFRAG says it"s not supported (not even the
new version of defrag)
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Again: does anyone know how is it possible to run BAT file from the
OpenGEM desktop? (they are opened by default.)
Further: does someone know whether it is possibe to make icons of
native DOS applications on the GEM Desktop.
I ask because I was unable to find an a
Eric, it was not nice to tread down our conversation
Sophism, does not help; either me or anyone.
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f GEM as 'base' and rewrite
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> Hi...
> Please run regedit.exe and try changing GRAPHICS/WIDTH, GRAPHICS/HEIGHT and
> GRAPHICS/DEPTH and try again.
>
Hi,
at first: nice job! :)
(I installed WinDOS 01 on a dedicated partition '/dev/hda1' and it
worked out of the box)
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2007/12/7, Jim Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On 12/7/07, David Zabriskie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > is there some where else to download from?
>
> I think this is what you are looking for:
>
> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/gui/windos/
>
David was searching
n that hooks into the
DOS redirector interface (known from *CDEX). This would certainly require
some Assembly hacking. The smbclient for DOS however looks like a simple
port of other smbclient versions, not a version re-writte
that uses DOS's block devices for device access
instead of relying on direct Int13 access.
Anyway, such discussions should probably be on Freedos-kernel.
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problem seems that the redirector interface was designed for
network redirectors, not for any kind of local non-FAT filesystem driver.
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;s smbclient and it seems to work. (Keyboard input at the
smb: \> prompt is uncomfortable, but retrieving files from a MS Windows
5.1 server works.) Currently requires about 80 KiB when shelling out, but
I assume a DPMI TSR for DOS drive redirection could do better.
Christian
prompt is uncomfortable, but retrieving files from a MS Windows
>> 5.1 server works.) Currently requires about 80 KiB when shelling out,
>> but
>> I assume a DPMI TSR for DOS drive redirection could do better.
>
> Sounds good :-) I did not know you could even shell out fr
rmat the RAM
disk with a non-FAT filesystem which would be known to the redirector
(f.e. HPFS).
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> HPFS ? oops. and I thought that *I* was oldfashioned ;)
Yeah, iHPFS is just the first free local filesystem redirector I thought
of. (I never used it and I don't have any HPFS partitions.)
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Where does it say that it's LGPL ?
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> I found it in:
>
> ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.0/pkgs/sharex.lsm
Thanks. The source file share.c from ftp.devoresoftware.com (Primary-site
in the LSM) says only "GNU GPL", as does my copy (from DOS-C 2038 SVN). I
assume the LSM i
Hi,
The MBR isn't installed by SYS, it's installed by FDISK. The source of the
standard MBR is contained in the BOOTNORM directory. (The MBR in the
BOOTEASY directory lets the user select a partition from a small menu.)
#x27;t required. (BTW, sound
handling is "independant" from the DOS version because DOS itself doesn't
care about sound at all.)
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#x27;s VxDs nor the ones new to JLMs are documented
by Japheth. The source of JLOAD (which seems to contain most of the actual
services) is not (yet?) available though I also didn't request it (yet)
from Japheth.
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> the ac97 drivers from linux couldn't be ported back to dos as a
> general sound driver, just add sb-compatible calls to it, and you
> should be all set.
The problem is that there aren't just some "SB calls" used by DOS games.
s DJGPP can usually access as much memory as real mode
DOS software that uses the XMM or EMM. However by using DPMI this memory
can be used as storage for both data and code.
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filename in (depending on the length) one or multiple
directory entries of the normal DOS directory that are marked as invalid.
This is the reason that your FAT12 or FAT16 root directory might be full
with less files and directories than should actually fit. The LFNs use
some of the direct
hacking parts of the UPX loader as currently done for DOS-C (and the
EDR-DOS kernel).
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quot;Dissecting DOS") but not for RxDOS 7.x. The
newer RxDOS releases have FAT32 (just as DOS-C) plus LFN functions *inside
the kernel*. That is you shouldn't need DOSLFN to use LFNs. However both
features will often not work as expected because they're slightly buggy
and inc
source code not available? If you'd really need it badly
someone could disassemble it. BTW, the driver's size is 1.5 KiB with UPX
compression, 4 KiB without.
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adly someone could disassemble it.
>
> That would not be polite. It is not available because
> Bart of nu2.nu did not have the impression that the
> work for making it available would be worth it, given
> the apparently few people who have asked him yet :-)
Aww. What a polite guy.
Reg
> On read-only media the 'set /e bootdevice=bootdev' will create an error
> due to write protection. How this can be solved?
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>>> On read-only media the 'set /e bootdevice=bootdev' will create an error
>>> due to write protection. How this can be solved?
>>
>> Did you set the TEMP or TMP environment variable to a directory on a
>> writable drive?
>
> No, there is no writable device.
>
> Well, I could introduce a ramdisk b
normal guy. Making sources available is work, and if
> nobody pays you and nobody even asks you for them, why should
> you spend time to publish them?
Didn't "apparently few people" ask? Is that the same as "nobody"?
> But feel free to politely ask
> Bart of nu2.nu t
you that you
> fall asleep instantly when reading about normal problems ;-).
In DOS no problem is normal ;-)
>>> But feel free to politely ask Bart of nu2.nu to publish his sources
>> I'll do so if I ever want to boot from a CD-ROM in no-emulation mode.
>
> Which inc
> at the cost of having to "repair"
"patch", "extend"?
> some structures and not
> being able to load "early" drivers as HIMEM / EMM386 fully:
> You can DEVLOAD them but DOS ignores some features then.
If you knew the location where DOS store
help?
Which partitions does Fdisk list on the hard disk? FreeDOS can only access
partitions of the FAT12/FAT16 or FAT32 type with a drive letter.
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27;t work for all programs so you have to be
careful with it. I think the TSR Utilities don't work with programs loaded
in FDCONFIG.SYS but you could try whether that program can be loaded by
DEVLOAD (on Eric's site, or on the FreeDOS software page) i
r to access the host's files.
On http://www.pocketdos.com/download.htm there are binaries for various
platforms listed which extend PocketDOS's emulation to an 80486 processor.
This should allow to use DPMI programs, too. If you don't want to use one
of these (pos
MS-DOS though.
Does the crash always occur? Does it show rather random characters or are
they always the same? Which application do you abort?
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e same bug.
Well this shouldn't happen (and won't be fixed by the bugfix in my
previous mail), it should only abort the application. Are you sure you
pressed F12 only one time?
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Hi,
I have a machine with a 160GB drive, and many partitions with different
Linux and Windows versions.
I'm using grub as main boot loader.
After booting FreeDOS (which resides on the first partition) the extended
partition is marked as "Unknown".
Partition table before:
Device Boot Start
Hi Eric,
> Note how the first partition changed from HIDDEN FAT16 to
> NORMAL FAT16 and the active partition changed from NTFS to
> FAT16. The change from 5 to 15 is from CHS extended to
> LBA extended, you just used a very old software to display
> your partition table. I also think that this hi
ition
table, and if it was written by accident, it would have changed more than
just this one byte (actually, this one bit). Possibly a bug in GRUB?
Because, well, GRUB does write to the partition table anyway.
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Hello Christian,
> Although it sounds strange if GRUB itself can't use the "hidden
> extended" partition, I would also suspect this is done by GRUB, not
> FreeDOS. I think there's actually no code in FreeDOS (kernel) to write
> to the partition table, and if it w
Hi,
> actually I would recommend to tell GRUB to not manipulate
> the partition table at all. Why should it hide FAT from
> Linux or XP? Why should it hide XP and Linux from DOS?
> All three operating systems are smart enough to know the
> drive letter from which they are booting, although I am
>
doesn't run on FreeDOS.
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compatible to Win DOS 7.
Might be coincidence that the DPB layout of MS-DOS 7 and FAT32 DOS-C is
the same. Or that the same new, complicated FAT32 Int21 functions are
supported. Or that DOSLFN services exactly the LFN
ffort. DOS-C's FAT
driver is probably LFN-aware (shows correct volume label even with LFNs
etc.) but doesn't contain more support. [There's however this LFN helper
API but I don't know what it's supposed to do and there's no
documentation.]
Regards,
Christi
> LFN for FAT and for NTFS are working stable in Linux. Could a FreeDOS
> developer grab this free knowledge from Linux and improve DOSLFN this
> way?
FAT and FAT32 are already supported by DOSLFN, even some CD-ROM
filesystems are. NTFS is not supported by any free DOS driver, so you
can't e
s without
issuing the command again) by using its -r option.
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Hi all,
after having my FreeDOS installation basically up and running,
I'd like to ask what the preferred method to connect to a
file server share is these days.
I'm currently using MSCLIENT to connect to a samba share, but
MSCLIENT is a memory hog and I'd prefer a better solution.
Back in the
d you work for it?
EA:
> Plus support for new hardware in ways which may (FAT32,
> LBA) but do not need to be compatible to Win DOS 7.
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Hi,
> If you want you can setup a FTP server on DOS running as
> TSR in background.
> http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0503736/php/drdoswiki/index.php?n=Main.Servers
?? This is a completely different topic.
> msclient is nice to mount a remote server into a DOS device
> letter,
> unfortunately
> >> If you want you can setup a FTP server on DOS
> running as
> >> TSR in background.
> >>
> http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a0503736/php/drdoswiki/index.php?n=Main.Servers
> >
> > ?? This is a completely different topic.
>
> No, since you asked for connecting to file server share in
> a modern
ssentially
emulates Assembly) you have to use Assembly code to service the DOS calls
anyway.
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> It's a client and not a network drive.
So a network drive that shows you a directory of a network server would be
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> we all know that it's possible to service INT 21 calls in straight C,
> with very little assembly
>
> hint: look into the FreeDOS kernel sources
Yes, by "servicing the DOS calls" (talking about the redirector, Int2F
too) I meant the initial assembler entry and setup, which is in files like
k
Hi,
I'm using FreeDOS 1.0.
When I run "dosfsck c:" it reports everything ok:
dosfsck 2.11.DOS, 15 Apr 2006, FAT32, LFN
c:: 4191 files, 6623/62597 clusters
When I run "chkdsk" it reports many problems:
ChkDsk beta 0.9
Copyright 2002, 2003 Imre Leber under the GNU GPL
\KERNEL.SYS has an inva
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>
> Umm, yes it does after you modified a drive's CDS to
> show that it's a
> redirected drive. So get familiar with some of the data
> described at
> Int21.52 (MS-DOS 4+ CDS and SFT, MS-DOS 5+ List of Lists)
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