Re: [Freedos-user] Installing on an iMac 2011 (with good reason)

On Wed, 4 Oct 2023 at 19:59, ashembers via Freedos-user wrote: > > Hello, > > I have been trying to install 1.3 on an iMac 2011 I *think* Intel Macs only fake BIOS compatibility for booting from removable media. Once the OS is on the fixed disk, I'd expect it not to work. If the fans are on

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing on an iMac 2011 (with good reason)

Hello, >the machine running hot Maybe try running FDAPM to reduce CPU usage once you're in the shell? I remember installing FreeDOS on a Toshiba A660 with an i7 onboard, but I don't recall that kind of issue. >is this normal behavior for installing FD to an SSD? No. FreeDOS can be

[Freedos-user] Installing on an iMac 2011 (with good reason)

Hello, I have been trying to install 1.3 on an iMac 2011, which seems dumb on the face of it, but I noticed that it has Intel-based sound that looks to be SBEM compatible, so I figured that it would actually be a good use of aging hardware. There were 2 problems doing this: I saw that the cooling

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing GRUB

Note the first partition starts 1MB from the first sector. I've seen some mentions that this sort of thing is standard for multi-boot loaders. I've also read that some GPT partitioning schemes are using a BIOS Boot Partition type (EF02) for that space while most MBR tools don't know or care

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing GRUB

Awesome! Thanks Tony! On Wed, Jun 29, 2022 at 4:52 PM Tony Richardson wrote: > Louis, > Sure. The output is: > > Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type > /dev/sda1 * 2048 1023999 1021952 499M e W95 FAT16 (LBA) > > Regards, > Tony > > On Wed, Jun 29, 2022 at

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing GRUB

Louis, Sure. The output is: Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/sda1 * 2048 1023999 1021952 499M e W95 FAT16 (LBA) Regards, Tony On Wed, Jun 29, 2022 at 1:07 AM Louis Santillan wrote: > Tony, > > In your Linux VM, could you give the output to `fdisk

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing GRUB

Tony, In your Linux VM, could you give the output to `fdisk -l /dev/sda`? Thanks On Sat, Jun 4, 2022 at 7:54 AM Tony Richardson wrote: > I wanted to use GRUB to boot FreeDOS. (I wanted to use it so that I could > dual-boot FreeDOS and RTEMS, but others may have different reasons.) It is > a

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing GRUB

Tony Richardson: > I wanted to use GRUB to boot FreeDOS. (I wanted to use it > so that I could dual-boot FreeDOS and RTEMS, but others > may have different reasons.) It is a relatively short > procedure so I thought I would contribute it to the > mailing list in case others might be interested.

[Freedos-user] Installing GRUB

I wanted to use GRUB to boot FreeDOS. (I wanted to use it so that I could dual-boot FreeDOS and RTEMS, but others may have different reasons.) It is a relatively short procedure so I thought I would contribute it to the mailing list in case others might be interested. I installed FreeDOS in a

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing Freedos on a Opendos system

On Mon, May 16, 2022 at 08:31:33AM +, Rober To via Freedos-user wrote: > Hi everybody: > I would like to know if it is possible to install Freedos on a Opendos > system. I want to have both systems and choose one or the other. I believe it should be feasible using GRUB (but not tried to

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing Freedos on a Opendos system

Of course it is, we just had an entire discussion about this very thing a week or two ago. Simply create multiple primary dos partitions, install your dos of choice on each one, then just activate (either manually or via program) the partition you wish to boot each time you startup. On

[Freedos-user] Installing Freedos on a Opendos system

Hi everybody: I would like to know if it is possible to install Freedos on a Opendos system. I want to have both systems and choose one or the other. Bye! ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing freedos to virtualbox them copying dice contents to an actual computer

Seeing as how you've referred to "chapters", it sounds like you're making contributions to a book or dissertation or script or some sort of larger document. I'd be wary of using a text editor instead of a word processor -- they are two very different things. A text editor is really designed

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing freedos to virtualbox them copying dice contents to an actual computer

If you need IDE drives, I have stacks of them, (one of the things I was able to rescue during our recent forced move). They're all different sizes, but I'd be willing to send you a box of them for the cost of shipping if you want them, since I no longer have any machines that can use them,

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing freedos to virtualbox them copying dice contents to an actual computer

True On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 11:51 AM John Vella wrote: > I am using edit at the moment,so it might be safer to stick with that. By > safer, I mean not installing windows, which also contains too many > distractions! > > On Thu, 31 Mar 2022, 11:43 Joao Silva, wrote: > >> If you go to WIndows

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing freedos to virtualbox them copying dice contents to an actual computer

It's a 486 dx 33, and I will have a look at that link when I get home, thanks! I'm not sure if I still have it, but I used to have an ide hard drive caddy buried somewhere. I might see if I can dig that out, as I have a few ide drives lying around. On Thu, 31 Mar 2022, 12:35 Björn Morell,

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing freedos to virtualbox them copying dice contents to an actual computer

Hi John Fun with someone using a real machine, I am using an IBM 100DX4 running, Freedos, DrDos and DSL (Damn Small Linux) all on three compact flash drives. I would try File Wizard and its internal editor,

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing freedos to virtualbox them copying dice contents to an actual computer

I am using edit at the moment,so it might be safer to stick with that. By safer, I mean not installing windows, which also contains too many distractions! On Thu, 31 Mar 2022, 11:43 Joao Silva, wrote: > If you go to WIndows 3.1 you have write. > > If you want to stick to dos get edit.com from

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing freedos to virtualbox them copying dice contents to an actual computer

If you go to WIndows 3.1 you have write. If you want to stick to dos get edit.com from DOS, i'm using it and works just fine. On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 11:37 AM John Vella wrote: > Ooh, that's good to know. I'll have to check how many lines per chapter. > > I'm also tempted to dig out another

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing freedos to virtualbox them copying dice contents to an actual computer

Ooh, that's good to know. I'll have to check how many lines per chapter. I'm also tempted to dig out another old drive, install windows 3.11 and try Microsoft Office 4.3 as I've never used that before. On Thu, 31 Mar 2022, 11:33 Joao Silva, wrote: > Hi! > > You can use FreeDOS edit, but don't

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing freedos to virtualbox them copying dice contents to an actual computer

Hi! You can use FreeDOS edit, but don't use for big files... can't handle 2968 lines On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 12:59 PM John Vella wrote: > I'll be honest and say I'm starting to second guess myself here... Reading > a totally unrelated email at work this morning, I wondered why I'm even >

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing freedos to virtualbox them copying dice contents to an actual computer

My fav is the internal editor in File Wizard :) Den 2022-03-30 kl. 18:35, skrev Louis Santillan: FreeDOS Edit, SETEdit, vi, pico.  All great basic DoS text editors. On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 4:59 AM John Vella wrote: I'll be honest and say I'm starting to second guess myself here...

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing freedos to virtualbox them copying dice contents to an actual computer

FreeDOS Edit, SETEdit, vi, pico. All great basic DoS text editors. On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 4:59 AM John Vella wrote: > I'll be honest and say I'm starting to second guess myself here... Reading > a totally unrelated email at work this morning, I wondered why I'm even > bothering with

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing freedos to virtualbox them copying dice contents to an actual computer

On Wed, 30 Mar 2022 at 13:59, John Vella wrote: > > I'll be honest and say I'm starting to second guess myself here... Reading a > totally unrelated email at work this morning, I wondered why I'm even > bothering with wordperfect. I only need a basic text editor. I'm not > interested in spell

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing freedos to virtualbox them copying dice contents to an actual computer

I'll be honest and say I'm starting to second guess myself here... Reading a totally unrelated email at work this morning, I wondered why I'm even bothering with wordperfect. I only need a basic text editor. I'm not interested in spell check, as I'll do that on the editing machine, so bringing it

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing freedos to virtualbox them copying dice contents to an actual computer

Hi John, > So, I've got the 486 computer working and am ready to install freedos > and wordperfect. What do *you* really need from FreeDOS to run WP? Probably just the BASE packages. Or maybe the kernel + FreeCOM only. You may also want to look at SvarDOS' floppy images:

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing freedos to virtualbox them copying dice contents to an actual computer

The host machine will be more than capable, as I have installed virtual freedos on this in the past. It's a 9th gen core i7 with 32gb, (I nearly typed 32mb!) off ram but now I've had a chance to think about it I'll probably just do the floppy install, purely because disk swapping is fun! I'll end

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing freedos to virtualbox them copying dice contents to an actual computer

On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 2:40 PM John Vella wrote: > So, I've got the 486 computer working and am ready to install freedos and > wordperfect. > > I'm thinking there are a couple of advantages to installing onto a virtualbox > machine, then formatting the physical hard drive and copying the

[Freedos-user] Installing freedos to virtualbox them copying dice contents to an actual computer

Hi, So, I've got the 486 computer working and am ready to install freedos and wordperfect. I'm thinking there are a couple of advantages to installing onto a virtualbox machine, then formatting the physical hard drive and copying the contents over. It would be a lot quicker to install and I'd

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS 1.3.

>> If that does not work or if you prefer, you can use FDISK and SYS to >> update the boot code. > > Are instructions available? Only as far as the individual programs help. > > The advanced installation process of FreeDOS might also provide a > resolution. While it should get FreeDOS

[Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS 1.3.

From: Jerome Shidel - 2022-02-21 00:14:37 > It installs to the First drive whose partition is compatible to DOS > and enumerated by the kernel as drive C:. > > Unless, you run it in advanced mode. Then other hard disks could be > targeted for install. Thanks Jerome. Will try to remember for

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS 1.3.

> On Feb 20, 2022, at 6:09 PM, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > > Just installed the plain FreeDOS 1.3 running the .iso installer image > against Qemu in Linux Debian bullseye. > > Installation was to a drive brought from another machine and > temporarily connected to the Linux system. The drive

[Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS 1.3.

Just installed the plain FreeDOS 1.3 running the .iso installer image against Qemu in Linux Debian bullseye. Installation was to a drive brought from another machine and temporarily connected to the Linux system. The drive was already formatted with four primary parts. The installer didn't

Re: [Freedos-user] installing FD13RC5 and FD12 in virtmanager

On Sat, 1 Jan 2022 at 11:16, Herminio Hernandez, Jr. wrote: > I drop the console and run "format c:/s" and only the kernel.sys and > command.com are copied This is normal expected behaviour for `format /s` and it is what it is intended and planned to do. It makes a disk bootable, no more. As

[Freedos-user] installing FD13RC5 and FD12 in virtmanager

I am running into an issue with installing FreeDOS in virtmanger on Debian 10. FD12 iso boots fine and I can go through the fdisk wizard, I reboot and start the format and install and I get a warning saying the system files cannot be found. I drop the console and run "format c:/s" and only the

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS alongside MS-DOS on old system

> On Sat, Sep 14, 2019 at 09:35:10PM -0500, Jon Brase wrote: > > > Hello everyone, > > > > I have an old 1995-vintage pentium system running a triple-boot of Debian, > > MS-DOS 6.22, and Windows 95. I would like to install FreeDOS along side > > MS-DOS On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 6:47 AM ZB wrote:

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS alongside MS-DOS on old system

On Sat, Sep 14, 2019 at 09:35:10PM -0500, Jon Brase wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I have an old 1995-vintage pentium system running a triple-boot of Debian, > MS-DOS 6.22, and Windows 95. I would like to install FreeDOS along side MS-DOS You can create 2 separate DOS partitions - and use GRUB to

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS alongside MS-DOS on old system

Hi Jon, > ... "help xcdrom32" takes me to a help page for xcdrom, which > says its deprecated and UIDE.SYS should be used instead. There's > a help page for UIDE.SYS, but I can't actually find UIDE.SYS > itself anywhere. At the moment, there are UHDD and UDVD, with UHDD integrating CD/DVD

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS alongside MS-DOS on old system

On 18/09/2019 12:15, Jon Brase wrote: Under FreeDOS itself, I'm having a bit of trouble getting my CD drive set up. Specifically, having just installed components through FDNPKG, I'm having to write up my own FDCONFIG.SYS / FDAUTO.BAT, and I'm having trouble figuring out which components are

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS alongside MS-DOS on old system

On Tue, 17 Sep 2019 09:48:04 +0200 Mateusz Viste wrote: > On 17/09/2019 01:00, Jon Brase wrote: > > My question isn't actually what packages are in base. My question is, given > > the presence of an existing MS-DOS install, what is the minimal set of > > packages that would need to be unpacked

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS alongside MS-DOS on old system

On 17/09/2019 01:00, Jon Brase wrote: My question isn't actually what packages are in base. My question is, given the presence of an existing MS-DOS install, what is the minimal set of packages that would need to be unpacked onto the MS-DOS partition *in order to get the package manager

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS alongside MS-DOS on old system

On Mon, 16 Sep 2019 17:13:42 +0200 Eric Auer wrote: > Hi Jon, > > > To answer the question which packages are BASE, check > > > http://www.freedos.org/software/ > > The idea is that BASE has similar functionality to what > you get with a 3 floppy MS DOS installation or with the > DOS mode

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS alongside MS-DOS on old system

Hi Jon, FreeDOS supports 28 bit LBA, so depending on whether you have BIOS bugs which require lower limits, you could use any size of harddisk as long as all partitions used by FreeDOS end within the first 128 GB ;-) Not sure whether Windows 95 supports LBA. MS DOS 6 does not, but it does not

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS alongside MS-DOS on old system

On Mon, 16 Sep 2019 00:07:50 +0200 Eric Auer wrote: > Hi Jon, > > for your advanced multi boot project, you could boot FreeDOS > from floppy and use the SHSU... drivers to open the ISO file > of the install CD as if it were a CD drive, after using your > Windows or Debian to copy the ISO to

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS alongside MS-DOS on old system

Hi Jon, for your advanced multi boot project, you could boot FreeDOS from floppy and use the SHSU... drivers to open the ISO file of the install CD as if it were a CD drive, after using your Windows or Debian to copy the ISO to your DOS/Win95 harddisk. The ISO has plenty of ZIPs to use with

[Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS alongside MS-DOS on old system

Hello everyone, I have an old 1995-vintage pentium system running a triple-boot of Debian, MS-DOS 6.22, and Windows 95. I would like to install FreeDOS along side MS-DOS on the DOS 6.22 partition, but have been running into some trouble. The machine has a CD drive, but cannot boot from CD, and I

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing with QEMU

to the official 1.3 release. Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Jim Hall Sent: Saturday, June 15, 2019 12:58 PM To: Discussion and general questions about FreeDOS. Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Installing with QEMU On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 9:17 AM Joseph Norton wrote: Hi listers:   I’m trying

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing with QEMU

On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 12:04 PM Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user < freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > On Saturday, June 15, 2019 12:57 PM, Jim Hall wrote: > > ... > Then you boot FreeDOS in QEMU. Note that QEMU takes a ton of command line > arguments to define each part of the

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing with QEMU

On Saturday, June 15, 2019 12:57 PM, Jim Hall wrote: > ... > Then you boot FreeDOS in QEMU. Note that QEMU takes a ton of command line > arguments to define each part of the virtual machine. Here's my command line: > > qemu-system-i386 -m 32 -k en-us -rtc base=localtime -soundhw

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing with QEMU

On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 9:17 AM Joseph Norton wrote: > Hi listers: > > > > I’m trying to install FreeDOS with QEMU, and I get as far as formatting > the hd, then, the installation says it can’t find the package files. > > > > I used the example in the Using FreeDOS Ebook, but, I did have to

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing with QEMU

Hello Joseph Norton, I’m trying to install FreeDOS with QEMU, and I get as far as formatting the hd, then, the installation says it can’t find the package files. I used the example in the Using FreeDOS Ebook, but, I did have to create the “freedos.img” file, which was not covered. Did you

[Freedos-user] Installing with QEMU

Hi listers: I’m trying to install FreeDOS with QEMU, and I get as far as formatting the hd, then, the installation says it can’t find the package files. I used the example in the Using FreeDOS Ebook, but, I did have to create the “freedos.img” file, which was not covered. I’m planning to do

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS with Bootcamp on a Mac

Hi, On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 7:15 PM, Eric Gorr wrote: > >> On Apr 9, 2016, at 9:40 PM, Rugxulo wrote: >> >> You don't absolutely need an installer at all. >> >> fdisk, (reboot), format, sys, (download or copy files) > > I am not sure I understand the

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS with Bootcamp on a Mac

> On Apr 9, 2016, at 9:40 PM, Rugxulo wrote: > > Hi, > > On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 10:26 AM, Eric Gorr wrote: >> >> I was just wondering if anyone knew if it was possible to install FreeDOS on >> Mac and, >> if it was possible, had instructions for how

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS with Bootcamp on a Mac

It was just a generic error message that the kernel failed to install and it asked me if I wanted to continue with the installation. There was no error code or anything more specific then that.On Apr 9, 2016, at 12:23 PM, Louis Santillan wrote:What error message did you get?On

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS with Bootcamp on a Mac

Hi, On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 10:26 AM, Eric Gorr wrote: > > I was just wondering if anyone knew if it was possible to install FreeDOS on > Mac and, > if it was possible, had instructions for how to do so. Have you tried bootable USB? > I have a MacPro Mid 2012 and am

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS with Bootcamp on a Mac

What error message did you get? On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 8:26 AM, Eric Gorr wrote: > I was just wondering if anyone knew if it was possible to install FreeDOS > on Mac and, if it was possible, had instructions for how to do so. > > I have a MacPro Mid 2012 and am running El

[Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS with Bootcamp on a Mac

I was just wondering if anyone knew if it was possible to install FreeDOS on Mac and, if it was possible, had instructions for how to do so. I have a MacPro Mid 2012 and am running El Capitan. I have an internal 250gb HD which I can wholly dedicate to this purpose and can prepare it however I

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS on the second partition of the disk

2013/4/22 Felix Miata mrma...@earthlink.net also maybe influenced or caused by VE-300 emulation firmware when using it All tests were done with the disk OUT of the VE-300 case. -- Precog is a next-generation analytics

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS on the second partition of the disk

2013/4/22 Felix Miata mrma...@earthlink.net On 2013-04-22 02:07 (GMT+0200) Aleve Sicofante composed: ...2.5 drive enclosure from Zalman, the VE-300... Is there any USB3 support in FreeDOS??? All my external backup cases except my oldest one include eSATA support. eSATA is mostly all I

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS on the second partition of the disk

the lowest-order operating system has to be installed first, unless i'm missing something here...   eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS on the second partition of the disk

Hi Felix, I created two PRIMARY partitions: a 39GB one and a 1GB one. I marked the second partition as Active... Note that because your partition starts after the first 8 GB, no matter which geometry you use, the partition can only be reached with LBA. So FAT32 with LBA would be a good

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS on the second partition of the disk

On 2013-04-22 12:36 (GMT-0700) Mark Brown composed: the lowest-order operating system has to be installed first, Though it tends to make desired results more likely and/or easier, it certainly need not. http://fm.no-ip.com/PC/install-doz-after.html -- The wise are known for their

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS on the second partition of the disk

On 2013-04-22 21:39 (GMT+0200) Eric Auer composed: MiB cyl: * 64 32 (required for maximum performance for 4k sector aka advanced format HDs) Why would 4k sector disks use any geometry at all? Disks don't use geometry. PC BIOS partition tables entries have multiple components. To conform to

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS on the second partition of the disk

Aleve Sicofante schreef op 22-4-2013 2:07: Thanks Jeremy and thanks to Felix too. I think at this point I should paint the whole picture, so you guys get a better idea. I bought a 2.5 drive enclosure from Zalman, the VE-300, that acts as two devices in one: it shows itself to the system as

[Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS on the second partition of the disk

I have a single 40GB disk and I need its first partition for other purposes, so I want to install FreeDOS on the second partition of the disk (that's the last 1GB of the disk, BTW). The process seems to be the same as if chose the first partition, but when I'm finished, FreeDOS won't boot. It will

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS on the second partition of the disk

On 2013-04-21 15:48 (GMT+0200) Aleve Sicofante composed: I have a single 40GB disk and I need its first partition for other purposes, so I want to install FreeDOS on the second partition of the disk (that's the last 1GB of the disk, BTW). The process seems to be the same as if chose the first

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS on the second partition of the disk

2013/4/21 Felix Miata mrma...@earthlink.net On 2013-04-21 15:48 (GMT+0200) Aleve Sicofante composed: I have a single 40GB disk and I need its first partition for other purposes, so I want to install FreeDOS on the second partition of the disk (that's the last 1GB of the disk, BTW). The

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS on the second partition of the disk

On 2013-04-21 17:48 (GMT+0200) Aleve Sicofante composed: Thanks Felix, so it doesn't matter which choice I select in the last installation step? I'm referring to the last step you can see on this picture:

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS on the second partition of the disk

2013/4/21 Felix Miata mrma...@earthlink.net On 2013-04-21 17:48 (GMT+0200) Aleve Sicofante composed: Thanks Felix, so it doesn't matter which choice I select in the last installation step? I'm referring to the last step you can see on this picture:

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS on the second partition of the disk

On 2013-04-21 18:19 (GMT+0200) Aleve Sicofante composed: Felix Miata composed: Because the first isn't a bootable OS anyway, I would definitely choose #1, the simplest. If the OS that needs access to the first is old and unsophisticated, another solution might be needed for it to maintain

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS on the second partition of the disk

On 2013-04-21 19:32 (GMT+0200) Aleve Sicofante composed: Felix Miata composed: On 2013-04-21 18:19 (GMT+0200) Aleve Sicofante composed: Felix Miata composed: Because the first isn't a bootable OS anyway, I would definitely choose #1, the simplest. If the OS that needs access to the

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS on the second partition of the disk

On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Aleve Sicofante asicofa...@gmail.comwrote: 2013/4/21 Felix Miata mrma...@earthlink.net On 2013-04-21 18:19 (GMT+0200) Aleve Sicofante composed: Felix Miata composed: Because the first isn't a bootable OS anyway, I would definitely choose #1, the

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS on the second partition of the disk

2013/4/21 Kenneth J. Davis jere...@fdos.org There are two different issues here. 1) The hard drive's master boot record (MBR - 1st sector where the partition table resides) must have bootable code installed. If you later intend to boot an OS from the 1st partition then installing a boot

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS on the second partition of the disk

On 2013-04-22 02:07 (GMT+0200) Aleve Sicofante composed: ...2.5 drive enclosure from Zalman, the VE-300... Is there any USB3 support in FreeDOS??? All my external backup cases except my oldest one include eSATA support. eSATA is mostly all I ever use for external HDs. They're DOS bootable

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS on the second partition of the disk

On 2013-04-22 02:07 (GMT+0200) Aleve Sicofante composed: I created two PRIMARY partitions: a 39GB one and a 1GB one. I marked the second partition as Active. I did all this using the tools provided in the FreeDOS CD. After partitioning and rebooting, I proceeded with the installation of

[Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS over Network

Hi Everyone Does anyone know how I can install FreeDOS form a PXE Boot server? I have a Pxe server that controls all my machines (when booted from the correct disk) All I want to do is boot to the Pxe server and install FreeDOS on to machines that do not Have any CD ROMS Is this

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

Also, you can try to NOT use emm386 and to NOT install USB and/or network drivers: With the FreeDOS 1.0 ISO, I remember that those two were very slow in detecting hardware etc. Another thing that you can try is using Bernd's preview of FreeDOS 1.1 which is much more up to date, including

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

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] Installing FreeDOS in a Qemu box.

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

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

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 ~/.qemu/freedos.img -boot order=c,once=d -m 31M -k pt-br -soundhw sb16 -M pc -smp 1 -cpu pentium

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

Hi Tiago, 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 as I remember - you could try Dosemu (if you use Linux or BSD) as

[Freedos-user] Installing on USB key: Warning: using suspect partition

Hi all - I'm new to freedos, but pretty good at DOS linux. Hopefully someone can help... I have a USB key with lots of OS versions on it for repair. I decided to tree FREEDOS on a parition, and although I got it booting, on bootup I get a screenfull of Warning: using suspect partition

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing on USB key: Warning: using suspect partition

Hi, Which FDISK version were you using? Are you trying to use FAT32 or what? On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Michelle Dupuis mdup...@ocg.ca wrote: I have a USB key with lots of OS versions on it for repair.  I decided to tree FREEDOS on a parition, and although I got it booting, on bootup

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing on USB key: Warning: using suspect partition

Op 12-10-2011 23:06, Rugxulo schreef: Hi, Which FDISK version were you using? Are you trying to use FAT32 or what? If all those other operating systems worked flawlessly then there should be no issue, and I'd assume the disk was partitioned and formatted by either some Linux program

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing 1.0 packages using 1.1 installer

Hi, Am 07.08.2011 02:01, schrieb Jim Hall: On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 2:49 PM, JPT j.p...@gmx.net wrote: [...] Answering the questions install all and install source seems to be odd. First tried N, N which resulted in an empty install. (still wrong location). Then I tried Y,N which was printed

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing 1.0 packages using 1.1 installer

btw, I tried to get the most recent packages for download but... The freedos page only offers links to the developer's sites? So do they provide freedos compatible packages? ?!?! Not everyone does, unfortunately.

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing 1.0 packages using 1.1 installer

Op 8-8-2011 10:57, JPT schreef: I used the one from the 1.1 install CD. btw, I tried to get the most recent packages for download but... The freedos page only offers links to the developer's sites? So do they provide freedos compatible packages? ?!?! the 1.1 install CD has both

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing 1.0 packages using 1.1 installer

On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 2:49 PM, JPT j.p...@gmx.net wrote: Hi, read this as a user experience report. Maybe you can add a few messages here and there to make more clear what is going on. Let me ask a single question, before we start: the Installer just takes any packages found, so for

[Freedos-user] Installing 1.0 packages using 1.1 installer

Hi, read this as a user experience report. Maybe you can add a few messages here and there to make more clear what is going on. Let me ask a single question, before we start: the Installer just takes any packages found, so for newer versions I just have to download them and put them so they

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing with no CD drive

Hi, (sorry I'm late) On 6/20/11, Chris D chri...@fastmail.fm wrote: I am having trouble installing FreeDOS on an ancient Toshiba laptop which has no CD drive, only a floppy. Do you really want / need a full FreeDOS install? In particular, what apps do you really want / need? Games?

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing with no CD drive

Op 5-7-2011 15:54, Chris D schreef: What I found was that the boot floppy created is incomplete and that therefore the installation doesn't work. I got around that with help from this group but found that this did not install a boot menu to allow me to carry on using the existing PC-DOS,

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing with no CD drive

Hi Bernd, For example the ideal FreeDOS drive to install to is a C: which is: * part of a harddisk No really. * harddisk is first harddisk on IDE/ATA/SATA controller Should be easy to check. * partition is large enough * partition has enough free space * partition is writable *

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing with no CD drive

Hi :-) (I know Eric promotes my old 2008 RUFFIDEA [three disks] sometimes, or even his Brezel mini distro, but I halfway think mine's too old and quirky to be generally useful, esp. nowadays. Alas. And it's just too hard to update properly, and I have real life chapping my ass, so that

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing with no CD drive

Hi, On 7/5/11, Chris D chri...@fastmail.fm wrote: I don't need FreeDOS on that machine, full install or otherwise. All I wanted to do was take a look at FreeDOS to find out what it can do. I know, I mean, I figured that much. I just meant, What apps do you want to run? (The full FD 1.0 is

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing with no CD drive

Op 20-6-2011 22:31, Chris D schreef: Is that boot floppy really as useless as it seems to be? Is there really a way of installing to a machine without a CD drive? You'll need at least the SHSUCDX and SHSUCDHD programs to access the ISO's contents: SHSUCDHD /F:C:\FDBOOTCD.ISO SHSUCDX

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing with no CD drive

...@home.nl To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 16:10:45 +0200 Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Installing with no CD drive Op 20-6-2011 22:31, Chris D schreef: Is that boot floppy really as useless as it seems to be? Is there really a way of installing to a machine without a CD

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing with no CD drive

File the bug report on the sourceforge site bug tracker. I don't have a computer handy to provide better links/details. I believe there is a distribution option, but if you can assign it to me. Thank you. Jeremy --

[Freedos-user] Installing with no CD drive

I am having trouble installing FreeDOS on an ancient Toshiba laptop which has no CD drive, only a floppy. In the Install section of the wiki, also known as the FreeDOS Install HOWTO, I read: With the special boot diskette, you can even install on a PC which does not have a cdrom drive: Just copy

Re: [Freedos-user] installing Free Dos without boot loaders

) -- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:37:44 -0300 From: Alain Mouette ala...@pobox.com Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS without the boot     loader? To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: 4c165ad8.7020

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