Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 Preview 11

Hello Don, > On Feb 3, 2016, at 1:47 PM, Don Flowers wrote: > > Day after observation: I am getting an A: drive redirect when I try to copy > files by "COPY" command. One file will copy to the desired directory and then > it searches for the A: drive. Would this be a glitch from the installer

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 Preview 11

t; setting an absolute path for C:\;C:\FDOS;C:\FDOS\BIN > > > Interesting, if changing the chaning them path variable order fixed the issue. It would not be a bug or other issue in the installer. Thanks for the update. Jerome > > >> On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 5:21 PM, Jerome S

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2+ Preview 12 - Now with Dimples

> On Feb 13, 2016, at 6:19 PM, Don Flowers wrote: > > I booted from the CD not USB , but my extreme test machine has 3 hard drives > wth various "C" drives among them. Even with XOSL hiding partitions, I think > the installer may not be prepared for setting drives beyond "D;" > "lastdrive=Z"

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2+ Preview 12 - Now with Dimples

gt;> On Feb 19, 2016, at 1:51 PM, Louis Santillan wrote: >> >> Hey all, >> >> I plan to do another test run with the hardware I have. 1.2p12 or 13, >> which ever is available. >> >> On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 3:46 PM, Jerome Shidel wrote: >> &g

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2+ Preview 12 - Now with Dimples

> On Feb 23, 2016, at 3:47 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > > > Hi Jerome, > >>> - user has another OS and DOS must not kill the boot menu without asking >>> >>> - user made a virtual computer for DOS, the disk contains nothing at all >> >> - user has some old hardware they want to install and play wi

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Installer Preview 14 - The Final Chapter.

Hello Don > On Mar 8, 2016, at 1:17 PM, Don Flowers wrote: > > Just did an install on my multiple Hard drive/multiple DOS/FreeDOS DC5700. I > used the advanced option and have nothing bad to report (except that *#$% > "Error reading from drive A: DOS area drive not ready Abort Ignore Retry >

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Installer Preview 14 - The Final Chapter.

Hello Don, > Jerome, this is not an installer issue, it occurs following an otherwise > successful install and reboot. I think it is a DOSLFN/Memory Management/SHELL > issue. It's a bug that has been around for a long time and the only way I > have gotten rid of it is to forgo DOSLFN. > > On

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 BETA, Coming soon--ish.

Hello Eric, > please explain what goes wrong with Dosbox, Freecom and V8: Basically, the current DOSBox doesn't really support Stdin/out I/O redirection. It mostly seems to work once FreeCOM is loaded. However, testing if input is waiting on Stdin, it always replies yes when the data is piped i

[Freedos-user] DOSBox I/O issue follow-up

Hello Eric (and anyone else who is interested), Here is a little proof-of-concept demonstration of the issue regarding I/O redirection in DOSBox. ; begin example code ; NASM 2.11.08 for DOS ; Jerome Shidel, Public Domain. use16 cpu 8086 org 0x100 StdPassThru: mov ah, 0x0b; DOS

Re: [Freedos-user] Boot FreeDOS (Black screen/blinking cursor)

Hello Matthew, Try using FreeDOS 1.2 Installer Preview Release 15 (FDI). http://up.lod.bz/FDI Use either the SLIM or full USB images. SLIM contains BASE and FULL installs and is under 32MB. The Full USB image contains those plus about 450MB of extra packages that are not automatically install

Re: [Freedos-user] FDI Preview 15, update 2

> On Apr 10, 2016, at 12:59 PM, Don Flowers wrote: > > I just tried an install with FDI-SLiM.img from my GRUB2 boot menu and it was > super fast. I forgot to go to the advanced menu (maybe the final should have > the options following the language menu?); so my GRUB got wiped but SUPER > GRUB

Re: [Freedos-user] FDI Preview 15, update 2

> On Apr 10, 2016, at 12:59 PM, Don Flowers wrote: > > I just tried an install with FDI-SLiM.img from my GRUB2 boot menu and it was > super fast. I forgot to go to the advanced menu (maybe the final should have > the options following the language menu?); so my GRUB got wiped but SUPER > GRUB

Re: [Freedos-user] FDI Preview 15, Update 3

On Apr 16, 2016, at 7:45 PM, Jim Hall wrote: > > Putting on my "technical editor" hat, I'm suggesting these fixes and edits > for 1.2-pre16. I know these may seem like trivial edits, but I think they > make the installer more professional. > > > 1. Lists should be introduced either with a qu

Re: [Freedos-user] FDI Preview 15, Update 3

> On Apr 17, 2016, at 8:46 PM, Jim Hall wrote: > > Hi Jerome > > I'll email you offlist with a screenshot of the "Partitioner" typo. Ah, that was an old typo I corrected a little while back. It occurred when I reworded that option from "Launch Partitioner..." to "Partition(er) ..." I though

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 - Preview 16

> On Apr 19, 2016, at 11:47 AM, Jim Hall wrote: > >> On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 9:28 AM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. >> wrote: >> >> Hello All, >> >> At present there are two USB of FDI, 32MB and 512MB. >> >> Who would like the 512MB version expanded to 2GB in Preview 16? >> >> This would not effect

Re: [Freedos-user] FDI Preview 15, Update 3

Hello, > On Apr 22, 2016, at 6:02 AM, Mateusz Viste wrote: > > Hi, > > I tested FDI, and - in general - it looks really awesome. I list below > all my remarks. > > *** 1st Screen *** > "Please select you language." - this should be "youR language" This has already been changed to different w

Re: [Freedos-user] FDI Preview 16

Hello Don, > On Apr 30, 2016, at 5:52 AM, Don Flowers wrote: > > Thanks Jerome, > Will be testing this weekend with feedback on Monday. :-) > > I just have to add this today about PGME - I have several vintage Menu > systems, but what you have done here is really an awesome addition to FreeD

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 needs you

> So you just want us to weed out the license-incompatible ones?? That is only part of what is needed. Some packages have wrong or old license information. For example, some have switched from GPL to BSD. Others, are listed as GPL, but are actually GPLv2. And so on. >> base\ctmouse > > Needs

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 - Preview 17

> On May 15, 2016, at 4:19 PM, Rugxulo wrote: > > Hi, > > On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 10:24 AM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. > wrote: >> >> On May 11, 2016, at 11:11 PM, perditi...@gmail.com wrote: >> [..] >> >> Kernel update is forthcoming. >> I still need to run some tests and make 386+ builds, but u

Re: [Freedos-user] Games

> On Jun 20, 2016, at 3:04 PM, userbeit...@abwesend.de wrote: > > Why? > Every emulator or VM I know about will quickly install any operating > system from a virtual CD-ROM. So if you just assign the FreeDOS-ISO as > the virtual ATAPI-CDROM you will very easily install it to the virtual > Har

Re: [Freedos-user] Which freedos on 486

Did you change the installed config? It uses himemx as well. Sent from my iPhone, ignore bad sentence structures, grammatical errors and incorrect spell-corrected words. > On Jul 18, 2016, at 3:46 PM, Dimitris Zilaskos wrote: > > Thank you all for your suggestions. What I have tried so far:

Re: [Freedos-user] Which freedos on 486

should run fdisk and verify that the FreeDOS partition is set as ACTIVE. Jerome Sent from my iPhone, ignore bad sentence structures, grammatical errors and incorrect spell-corrected words. > Cheers, > > Dimitris > >> On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 10:49 PM, Jerome Shidel wrote

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos 1.2 archivers

Hello, > On Aug 16, 2016, at 11:38 AM, Dimitris Zilaskos wrote: > > Hi, > > I did a full freedos 1.2 installation but not all archivers were installed. > While I got them from the CD eventually from the ARCHIVERS directory I was > wondering if that is supposed to happen. > > Best regards, >

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos 1.2 archivers

s. Would be awesome to have an option to get them installed. > > Cheers, > > Dimitris > >> On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 5:52 PM, Jerome Shidel wrote: >> Hello, >> >> > On Aug 16, 2016, at 11:38 AM, Dimitris Zilaskos >> > wrote: >> > >

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos 1.2 archivers

croll down to see it. > > Best regards, > > Dimitris > >> On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 12:25 AM, Jerome Shidel wrote: >> If you run the installer in advanced mode, you can add them at installation >> by using detailed package selection. >> >> You

Re: [Freedos-user] Simple guide for networking FreeDOS 1.2 in a VirtualBox VM ?

> On Dec 25, 2016, at 4:57 PM, William Dudley wrote: > > Is there a simple guide for networking FreeDOS 1.2 in a VirtualBox VM ? No guide needed under VirtualBox Install the FDNET package and reboot. If you downloaded a CD version and did a FULL (not BASE) install, just: 1) boot the VM 2) at

Re: [Freedos-user] Simple guide for networking FreeDOS 1.2 in a VirtualBox VM ?

Made a quick YouTube video of doing a VirtualBox install and how to add networking support. https://youtu.be/k0sP1VAo0D8 -- Developer Access Program for Intel Xeon Phi Processors Access to Intel Xeon Phi processor-based d

Re: [Freedos-user] Simple guide for networking FreeDOS 1.2 in a VirtualBox VM ?

William, > On Dec 26, 2016, at 12:16 PM, William Dudley wrote: > > Jerome, > > Thanks, that was useful. It would be better if it also discussed the settings > needed in VirtualBox. I figured it out eventually but it took me a bit of > googling > to figure out. > > Bill Dudley I’m glad you

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 and DOSBox

How can I add the power of FreeDOS to my DOSBox? Well, here you go. Keep all of the flexibility that DOSBox provides. Yet, add the power of the FreeDOS Command Shell and other FreeDOS utilities. The FreeDOS installer supports DOSBox. Please note, this is not a pure OS install. But, a special w

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.2 and kolibri os dualboot

> On Dec 27, 2016, at 8:00 AM, Wolfgang ANdreas Heisele wrote: > > Hi, > > I am new to freedos and got to this mailing list through this youtube video: Welcome. > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0sP1VAo0D8 > > Where I wrote the follwing question: > > Nice video. :-) > I got that

Re: [Freedos-user] Preload and start installer from installation target?

> On Dec 30, 2016, at 11:44 AM, userbeit...@abwesend.de wrote: > > Hi, fellow FreeDOS users! I need your help. > > > I have an original Intel 80486 with 50 MHz that I want to try FreeDOS > on. I still haven't found the time so far an my first attempt came to an > early halt because I couldn'

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.2 Syslinux kernel.sys not found

> On Jan 2, 2017, at 2:18 AM, Wolfgang ANdreas Heisele wrote: > > I have made a small video to show my issue with freedos 1.2 and syslinux. > After installing it freedos does not boot because it is looking for > kernel.sys in c:\fdos\bin\ were there is no such file. Also it seems to be > only

Re: [Freedos-user] HIMEMX.EXE - Invalid Opcode

> On Jan 4, 2017, at 9:16 AM, Tony Richardson wrote: > > I am having exactly the same problem (Invalid Opcode at HIMEMX line) with a > laptop from the same era. FreeDOS 1.1 installed without problems. I was > using the 1.2 standard CD. I plan to try the 1.2 legacy CD tonight to see if > t

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.2 font with 4k monitor

> On Jan 5, 2017, at 8:30 PM, Ralf Quint wrote: > >> On 1/5/2017 5:24 PM, Gordon wrote: >> That's what I was wondering -- can you install a larger font to get >> larger characters, or will the window still be the same size so you just >> get less lines and characters per line? > That font being

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Install

Also, try to just install BASE and not FULL. You can install the other packages after the install completes. > On Jan 10, 2017, at 4:59 PM, Ira Minor wrote: > > Try using the Legacy Installer CD rather than the Standard one. > > Ira > > irami...@gmail.com 805-212-0588 > >> On Tue, Jan 10,

Re: [Freedos-user] Fw: Freedos 1.2 Network with fix ip

Rugxulo is correct. In 1.2, the AUTOEXEC.BAT checks for the existence of the %DOSDIR%\BIN\fdnet.bat file. If it is found, it is run to attempt to automatically start networking. The fdnet.bat and the %DOSDIR%\NETWORK directory provide all of the required programs and files to get networking su

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos 1.2 LSM files without CR

Eric, You and Tom are correct. But, so is Rugxulo. Is it a problem? As far as I know, only three programs every touch the LSM files. FDNPKG, FDINST and FDIMPLES. Other than install and remove, I don’t think FDNPKG & FDINST do anything with them. FDIMPLES uses them along with other files and da

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos 1.2 LSM files without CR

Rugxulo, It is even worse than you suggested for Turbo Pascal compiled programs for LF only files. The entire built-in text I/O system can't go anywhere near such files. If it does, you end up with an infinite display loop crash.

Re: [Freedos-user] freedo

Tom, > what purpose is SHARE supposed to have? > SHARE is useful when the machine is running as a server, or with > windows (or any other multitasking OS). > > don't install this. You are probably correct that it should load it by default. I rem’d it out for future releases. Jerome --

Re: [Freedos-user] freedo

Hello again, I do agree that it makes little sense to automatically load SHARE with boot config option 2. After all, no other boot option starts SHARE. Also, only a couple situations require its use. Mostly, those would be running a multitasking system like Windows or exporting network filesy

Re: [Freedos-user] verification checksums should be served over https

> On Jan 14, 2017, at 2:21 PM, shaclacroi wrote: > > The download page links to checksums at > http://www.freedos.org/download/verify.txt -- but since this page isn't > available over https, there's no way to confirm the validity of the > checksums, since the page could be intercepted and mod

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 & VirtualBox: Wiki updated

> On Feb 1, 2017, at 11:53 AM, Ulrich Hansen wrote: > > I have updated the pages at: > > http://wiki.freedos.org/wiki/index.php/VirtualBox > Looks pretty good. :-) Just one minor note you may wish to add. FDIMPLES is only installed with the

Re: [Freedos-user] questions on FreeDOS

> Secondly, although this isn't super helpful advice (and yet > freedos.org does imply gaming), I don't think VirtualBox is ideal for > games. It just lacks some compatibility that some games need. Maybe > it'll work for some of your use cases, but normally it is suggested to > use (non-FreeDOS) D

Re: [Freedos-user] Bug? Confusing boot options in FreeDOS 1.2

Bug? Not really. Is it correct? Not even close. You are correct that there are at least a couple issues with the FDCONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT file. Also, #2 should not say EMM386 when it uses JEMM386. The current 1.2 config files are based on a clean install of 1.1 into VMware Fusion. Then

Re: [Freedos-user] Rolling up from 1.1?

> On Feb 8, 2017, at 4:57 PM, David McMackins wrote: > > Call me a noob, but is there a preferred way to upgrade from FreeDOS 1.1 > to 1.2 while keeping configurations intact? I haven't personally loaded > the new installer yet, but I wanted to check before I tried, since my > FreeDOS installat

Re: [Freedos-user] Rolling up from 1.1?

Also, if you run the installer in advanced mode. You can choose not to replace your config files, use zip to backup and other stuff. But, generally I recommend just running the install in normal mode. If you quit the installer and run it as "setup adv" , it will run in advanced mode. You can a

Re: [Freedos-user] Borland Pascal unhandled exception...

FYI, there is a typographical error with option 2. It says EMM386. But, it uses JEMM386. > On Feb 10, 2017, at 1:57 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > > > Hi Geneb, about your Borland Pascal 7 Problem in FreeDOS 1.2: > >> When I run "bp" which is the protected mode compiler, I get this: >> >> Unhandled

Re: [Freedos-user] Creating a DOS bootable USB drive

> On Feb 26, 2017, at 5:34 PM, Rugxulo wrote: > > Hi, > > On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 8:10 AM, Wolfram Volpi wrote: >> >> I am new to FreeDOS and could use your help. >> I am trying to create a DOS bootable USB drive in for a BIOS update. >> I have done the following twice, with the same result e

Re: [Freedos-user] Creating a DOS bootable USB drive

Some Windows users like using utilities like Rufus ( https://rufus.akeo.ie ) to create their bootable USB media. But, as a non-Windows user, I don’t know much about it. -- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of th

Re: [Freedos-user] boot floppy disk image too big for a disk

A 1.44MB 3.5” DS HD floppy disk is 1,474,560 bytes when formatted. (2MB unformatted) It used 512 byte sectors, 18 sectors per track, 80 tracks per side and is/was a two sided media. 512 * 18 * 80 * 2 = 1474560 / 1024 = 1.44MB floppy. More information on this can be found at https://en.wikiped

Re: [Freedos-user] boot floppy disk image too big for a disk

> On Mar 23, 2017, at 11:56 PM, Felix Miata wrote: > > I just looked inside http://www.freedos.org/download/download/FD12FLOPPY.zip > "boot floppy", and a 3.5" 1.44M floppy. My floppy has 1457664 total bytes, > 2847 > 512 byte sectors. The image downloaded is 1474560 bytes, so the downloaded

Re: [Freedos-user] boot floppy disk image too big for a disk

> On Mar 24, 2017, at 6:15 PM, Dennis Fenton wrote: > > The 486 that I plan to use FreeDOS on currently‎ has MS-DOS 6.22 as its only > OS. My plan is to completely replace it but keep all my installed programs. > The SCSI drivers are all in C:\SCSI and I notice FreeDOS has its own > equivale

Re: [Freedos-user] boot floppy disk image too big for a disk

> On Mar 24, 2017, at 6:40 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > > > Hi Dennis, > >> The 486 that I plan to use FreeDOS on currently‎ has MS-DOS 6.22 as >> its only OS. My plan is to completely replace it but keep all my >> installed programs. The SCSI drivers are all in C:\SCSI and I notice >> FreeDOS has

Re: [Freedos-user] Without DVD-ROM, USB working... install it from the HD?

> On Mar 25, 2017, at 5:00 PM, Aleksei Ivan wrote: > > My USB ports are NOT working too. I have only to work with a installation > partition on this netbook. > Well, it is always tricky to install an OS to a computer with a single drive, no USB, no CD, no Floppy. It is very difficult to boo

Re: [Freedos-user] bsum - compute BSD checksums of your files

Less than 256 bytes of code. Over 2 Megabytes of controversy. Shame on you Mateusz! :-) All joking aside, from what I gather, your bsum is only meant to verify local files were copied correctly from one machine to another. Most forms of checksums should be sufficient for that task. Sure a c

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.

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Re: [Freedos-user] Simple

From: Jerome Shidel > On Dec 25, 2016, at 4:57 PM, William Dudley wrote: > > Is there a simple guide for networking FreeDOS 1.2 in a VirtualBox VM ? No guide needed under VirtualBox Install the FDNET package and reboot. If you downloaded a CD version and did a FULL (not BASE) inst

Re: [Freedos-user] Simple

From: Jerome Shidel William, > On Dec 26, 2016, at 12:16 PM, William Dudley wrote: > > Jerome, > > Thanks, that was useful. It would be better if it also discussed the settings > needed in VirtualBox. I figured it out eventually but it took me a bit of googling > to

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedo

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Re: [Freedos-user] Preloa

From: Jerome Shidel > On Dec 30, 2016, at 11:44 AM, userbeit...@abwesend.de wrote: > > Hi, fellow FreeDOS users! I need your help. > > > I have an original Intel 80486 with 50 MHz that I want to try FreeDOS > on. I still haven't found the time so far an my first attem

Re: [Freedos-user] freedo

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Re: [Freedos-user] freedo

From: Jerome Shidel Hello, > On Aug 16, 2016, at 11:38 AM, Dimitris Zilaskos wrote: > > Hi, > > I did a full freedos 1.2 installation but not all archivers were installed. While I got them from the CD eventually from the ARCHIVERS directory I was wondering if that is sup

Re: [Freedos-user] HIMEMX

From: Jerome Shidel > On Jan 4, 2017, at 9:16 AM, Tony Richardson wrote: > > I am having exactly the same problem (Invalid Opcode at HIMEMX line) with a laptop from the same era. FreeDOS 1.1 installed without problems. I was using the 1.2 standard CD. I plan to try the 1.2

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedo

From: Jerome Shidel > On Jan 2, 2017, at 2:18 AM, Wolfgang ANdreas Heisele wrote: > > I have made a small video to show my issue with freedos 1.2 and syslinux. After installing it freedos does not boot because it is looking for kernel.sys in c:\fdos\bin\ were there is no such file

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedo

From: Jerome Shidel > On Jan 5, 2017, at 8:30 PM, Ralf Quint wrote: > >> On 1/5/2017 5:24 PM, Gordon wrote: >> That's what I was wondering -- can you install a larger font to get >> larger characters, or will the window still be the same size so you just >>

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDO

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Re: [Freedos-user] Fw: Fr

From: Jerome Shidel Rugxulo is correct. In 1.2, the AUTOEXEC.BAT checks for the existence of the %DOSDIR%\BIN\fdnet.bat file. If it is found, it is run to attempt to automatically start networking. The fdnet.bat and the %DOSDIR%\NETWORK directory provide all of the required programs and files

Re: [Freedos-user] freedo

From: Jerome Shidel Tom, > what purpose is SHARE supposed to have? > SHARE is useful when the machine is running as a server, or with > windows (or any other multitasking OS). > > don't install this. You are probably correct that it should load it by default. I remrC

Re: [Freedos-user] freedo

From: Jerome Shidel Hello again, I do agree that it makes little sense to automatically load SHARE with boot config option 2. After all, no other boot option starts SHARE. Also, only a couple situations require its use. Mostly, those would be running a multitasking system like Windows or

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 & VirtualBox: Wiki updated

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Re: [Freedos-user] verification checksums should be served overhttps

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Re: [Freedos-user] Rolling up from 1.1?

From: Jerome Shidel > On Feb 8, 2017, at 4:57 PM, David McMackins wrote: > > Call me a noob, but is there a preferred way to upgrade from FreeDOS 1.1 > to 1.2 while keeping configurations intact? I haven't personally loaded > the new installer yet, but I wanted to check b

Re: [Freedos-user] Bug? Confusing boot options in FreeDOS 1.2

From: Jerome Shidel Bug? Not really. Is it correct? Not even close. You are correct that there are at least a couple issues with the FDCONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT file. Also, #2 should not say EMM386 when it uses JEMM386. The current 1.2 config files are based on a clean install of 1.1 into

Re: [Freedos-user] Rolling up from 1.1?

From: Jerome Shidel Also, if you run the installer in advanced mode. You can choose not to replace your config files, use zip to backup and other stuff. But, generally I recommend just running the install in normal mode. If you quit the installer and run it as "setup adv" , it w

Re: [Freedos-user] Borland Pascal unhandled exception...

From: Jerome Shidel FYI, there is a typographical error with option 2. It says EMM386. But, it uses JEMM386. > On Feb 10, 2017, at 1:57 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > > > Hi Geneb, about your Borland Pascal 7 Problem in FreeDOS 1.2: > >> When I run "bp" which is the prot

Re: [Freedos-user] Creating a DOS bootable USB drive

From: Jerome Shidel > On Feb 26, 2017, at 5:34 PM, Rugxulo wrote: > > Hi, > > On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 8:10 AM, Wolfram Volpi wrote: >> >> I am new to FreeDOS and could use your help. >> I am trying to create a DOS bootable USB drive in for a BIOS update. &

Re: [Freedos-user] Creating a DOS bootable USB drive

From: Jerome Shidel Some Windows users like using utilities like Rufus ( https://rufus.akeo.ie ) to create their bootable USB media. But, as a non-Windows user, I donrCOt know much about it. -- Check out the vibrant

Re: [Freedos-user] boot floppy disk image too big for a disk

From: Jerome Shidel > On Mar 23, 2017, at 11:56 PM, Felix Miata wrote: > > I just looked inside http://www.freedos.org/download/download/FD12FLOPPY.zip > "boot floppy", and a 3.5" 1.44M floppy. My floppy has 1457664 total bytes, 2847 > 512 byte sectors. The ima

Re: [Freedos-user] boot floppy disk image too big for a disk

From: Jerome Shidel A 1.44MB 3.5rCY DS HD floppy disk is 1,474,560 bytes when formatted. (2MB unformatted) It used 512 byte sectors, 18 sectors per track, 80 tracks per side and is/was a two sided media. 512 * 18 * 80 * 2 = 1474560 / 1024 = 1.44MB floppy. More information on this can be

Re: [Freedos-user] boot floppy disk image too big for a disk

From: Jerome Shidel > On Mar 24, 2017, at 6:15 PM, Dennis Fenton wrote: > > The 486 that I plan to use FreeDOS on currentlyrCA has MS-DOS 6.22 as its only OS. My plan is to completely replace it but keep all my installed programs. The SCSI drivers are all in C:\SCSI and I notice Fr

Re: [Freedos-user] Without DVD-ROM, USB working... install it from the

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Re: [Freedos-user] boot floppy disk image too big for a disk

From: Jerome Shidel > On Mar 24, 2017, at 6:40 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > > > Hi Dennis, > >> The 486 that I plan to use FreeDOS on currentlyrCA has MS-DOS 6.22 as >> its only OS. My plan is to completely replace it but keep all my >> installed programs. The SCSI

Re: [Freedos-user] bsum - compute BSD checksums of your files

From: Jerome Shidel Less than 256 bytes of code. Over 2 Megabytes of controversy. Shame on you Mateusz! :-) All joking aside, from what I gather, your bsum is only meant to verify local files were copied correctly from one machine to another. Most forms of checksums should be sufficient for

Re: [Freedos-user] overflooded by old emails

> On May 7, 2017, at 10:43 AM, Jim Hall wrote: > > Some email address was playing back old messages, don't know why. I > unsubscribed the email address from the list. Well, here is my guess on the event. There are many sites that mirror the FreeDOS mailing list archives. The easiest way to

Re: [Freedos-user] overflooded by old emails

> On May 7, 2017, at 2:11 PM, cc...@iglou.com wrote: > > Close, I think it was a configuration error on my part. I changed e-mail > address to one on my own server and the messages burped from my new one. > Sorry for the error. I can't speak for everyone else. But, as for me, no big deal. It

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS Software Repositories Update.

Hello again everyone, I just finished adding some new stuff to the fdrepo.sh Software Repository Management Utility. These new features added support for automatic RSS feed creation and updating. It automatically adds any new or updated packages into the feed. The Official software repositor

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Software Repositories Update

I just weeded out a couple of packages that showed up in the RSS feed that had not been updated in a while. The showed up because they had recently had some METADATA corrections. Now that most of the packages should have correct METADATA, this type of corrections should be rare going forward. I

Re: [Freedos-user] (sort of) new user with boot issues

Hi Curtis, Since you are using a multi-boot system, there is something you will probably want to NOT do during the installation of FreeDOS 1.2. You won't want to the boot sector overwritten. So, be sure to run the installer in Advanced Mode and tell it not to do it. It makes a backup of the cur

[Freedos-user] V8Power Tools

Hello all, Just wanted to let you know I added a new feature to the VFDUTIL.COM utility in V8PT yesterday. Basically, it will search the system PATH directories for a given filespec and output all matching files. If it is not found, there is no output and it terminates with an errorlevel. Th

[Freedos-user] V8Power Tools -- Update

Hello all, I just released an update to V8Power Tools. It has some general improvements to a couple tools. Also, it includes a brand new utility called veach. veach can be used for processing lists of items or commands. Here are a couple example usages: You have a directory full of bitmaps

Re: [Freedos-user] V8Power Tools -- Update

Hello Paolo, > On Aug 1, 2017, at 6:37 AM, Paolo Vincenzo Olivo wrote: > > Hi Jerome, > I've just tried your veach.com utility and it looks like it shall really > come in handy! I was missing a program capable of appending a command to a > sorted list (like a | in Unix ) . > Nice job, and tha

Re: [Freedos-user] V8Power Tools -- Update

Hi Tom, > On Aug 1, 2017, at 10:27 AM, Tom Ehlert wrote: > > >>> Hi Jerome, >>> I've just tried your veach.com utility and it looks like it shall really >>> come in handy! I was missing a program capable of appending a command to a >>> sorted list (like a | in Unix ) . >>> Nice job, and tha

Re: [Freedos-user] upgrade my PC from FD 1.1 to FD 1.2

Just replacing the COMMAND and SYS files won’t really give you 1.2. It would just be 1.1 an upgraded kernel. Take a look at the software comparison chart on the official FreeDOS software repository. http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/repositories/1.2/pkg-html/comparison.html

Re: [Freedos-user] (Upgrade FD 1.1 to FD 1.2) RE to Jerome on AUG 10, 2013

> On Aug 10, 2017, at 11:17 AM, Pierre LaMontagne wrote: > > > /Jerome said:/ > > Take a look at the software comparison chart on the official FreeDOS software > repository. > > I looked at the rather extensive chart (thanx, BTW.) I was hoping you could > clear-up a little bit of confusion

Re: [Freedos-user] upgrade my PC from FD 1.1 to FD 1.2

Hello, > On Aug 10, 2017, at 12:59 PM, Rugxulo wrote: > > Hi, > > On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 7:11 PM, Jerome Shidel wrote: >> >> Just replacing the COMMAND and SYS files won’t really give you 1.2. It would >> just be 1.1 an upgraded kernel. Take a look at the so

Re: [Freedos-user] upgrade my PC from FD 1.1 to FD 1.2 RE: to Rugxulo AUG 12, 2017

> On Aug 12, 2017, at 7:32 PM, Pierre LaMontagne wrote: > > (I know it's the same thing, but it's easier to me to only have to look in > Sound for relevant sound/music tools than scroll through a list of hundreds > of programs, even if sorted / ordered.) > > For me too, in fact I used that ve

Re: [Freedos-user] Some driver updates

I gave a lot of thought to the issue of “Installed” and “required” free space for the batch based FDI in FreeDOS 1.2. With the amount of additional overhead and complexity it would require, I decided it was not worth the effort at present. Base size, Base + sources size, Full size, Full+ sourc

Re: [Freedos-user] Some driver updates

>> On Nov 7, 2017, at 12:20 PM, Robert Riebisch wrote: >> >> Hi Jerome, >> >> I gave a lot of thought to the issue of “Installed” and “required” free >> space for the batch based FDI in FreeDOS 1.2. With the amount of additional >> overhead and complexity it would require, I decided it was

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos installation disk space requirements - was: Some driver updates

I see a lot of assume this, assume that, plus a little of roughly this... Maybe the installer should just assume FULL install + sources + (2x) old OS backup + 1-5MB safety margin at startup. If there is not that much space, tell user the error and stop. Like several other dangerous things

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos installation disk space requirements - was: Some driver updates

> On Nov 8, 2017, at 2:40 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > > > Hi Jerome, > >> Maybe the installer should just assume FULL install + sources > > Not really. Almost nobody installs all sources at the same time > and I would not even want the option in the installer: Instead, > I prefer to have the opti

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