On 3/15/2020 11:08 AM, Rugxulo wrote:
My 486s, back in the day, were quite slow and underpowered (Sx/25 with
either 4 or 8 MB RAM and small hard drives [170 MB or 250 MB or
such]). In some ways, I wish I had one again (in fully working order),
just to benchmark stuff.
It seems like one of
Is the problem not having floppy capability on real hardware? Maybe you have
USB but not ATAPI cdrom?
Freedos as far as I know does not support USB let alone USB floppy drives. If
you don't have IDE or you
have an external USB drive such as a DVD burner... that doesn't help you get
it
On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 7:28 AM ZB wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 12:47:33AM -0500, Rugxulo wrote:
>
> > It's amazing to me that so many people still use 486s with FreeDOS.
>
> For most DOS applications 486 is kind of "numbercruncher" - and, besides,
> if you use Intel 486 CPU you'll get
Hi,
On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 6:28 AM ZB wrote:
>
> On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 12:47:33AM -0500, Rugxulo wrote:
> > It's amazing to me that so many people still use 486s with FreeDOS.
>
> For most DOS applications 486 is kind of "numbercruncher"
My 486s, back in the day, were quite slow and
On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 12:47:33AM -0500, Rugxulo wrote:
> It's amazing to me that so many people still use 486s with FreeDOS.
For most DOS applications 486 is kind of "numbercruncher" - and, besides,
if you use Intel 486 CPU you'll get fanless "silent PC" (AMD 486 requires
fan; I mean at least
I booted from floppy
On Sun, Mar 15, 2020, 02:45 tom ehlert wrote:
> > Regrettably, I ran into another problem: apparently the CD I burned was
> > roughed up too badly for the installation to complete. It died while
> > trying to install UDVD2, due to a read error. And that was my last
> >
> Regrettably, I ran into another problem: apparently the CD I burned was
> roughed up too badly for the installation to complete. It died while
> trying to install UDVD2, due to a read error. And that was my last
> CD-R.
as you don't describe in detail what you did we can only guess :<<
On 3/13/2020 10:52 PM, Mallory Worlton wrote:
Regrettably, I ran into another problem: apparently the CD I burned
was roughed up too badly for the installation to complete. It died
while trying to install UDVD2, due to a read error. And that was my
last CD-R. So I'll have to go buy some
Regrettably, I ran into another problem: apparently the CD I burned was
roughed up too badly for the installation to complete. It died while
trying to install UDVD2, due to a read error. And that was my last
CD-R. So I'll have to go buy some more and make a new one.
On 2020-03-13 10:47
Hi,
On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 6:42 PM Mallory Worlton wrote:
>
> My computer is a Dell Optiplex 433/L with 16 MB of RAM and a 486
> processor.
It's amazing to me that so many people still use 486s with FreeDOS.
Those must've been built like tanks. (Mine, sadly, is disconnected.)
> It has a 270
I did some digging and found appropriate drivers. I am now installing
FreeDOS. Thank you all for your assistance.
On 2020-03-13 5:04 p.m., ZB wrote:
On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 12:46:28AM +0100, Eric Auer wrote:
CD-ROM connected to controllers on the sound card
might be overlooked by generic
On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 12:46:28AM +0100, Eric Auer wrote:
> CD-ROM connected to controllers on the sound card
> might be overlooked by generic drivers.
They usually _will_ be "overlooked" - unless such soundcard has a jumper,
that can make the storage device, connected to its controller,
Hi!
CD-ROM connected to controllers on the sound card
might be overlooked by generic drivers. Try to boot
using a floppy where you can manually add specific
drivers for your CD-ROM. If you already have another
DOS on the computer anyway, you can boot *that* and
then invoke the installer on the
They works when I DEVLOAD them post boot-up, but the USB flash drive
steals the DVD-RW drive's letter (E:\ in my case). USBUHCI, and
USBDRIVE don't work at all for me. It not only wont load my USB
drives, it doesn't even find them. Strangely enough if I load them
before USBASPI/NJ32DISK, my
Op 20-7-2011 4:17, Virii schreef:
What exactly goes wrong when you do what?
At which step? Which error messages do you
get, or do things hang? Crash? What sorts
of everything did you try, what happened?
It hangs at the language selection screen. The very bottom selection of the
main menu
I have been installing FreeDOS a lot, the only thing that works ALLWAYS
including USB CDs, is what I describel in a message 15june2011...
Then I can have a huge A: (I made it with bytes) with all that I need.
There is no way to make something that recognizes the CD everywhere.
Alain
Em
Hi!
Has anyone had any luck installing this latest test release?
http://sourceforge.net/news/?group_id=5109id=302138
I've tried everything from burning it to a disc, to mounting the boot
floppy/iso through Grub4Dos, and even rebuilding the iso.
I read the readme.txt for the release,
Op 20-7-2011 1:12, Eric Auer schreef:
What exactly goes wrong when you do what?
At which step? Which error messages do you
get, or do things hang? Crash? What sorts
of everything did you try, what happened?
Lot's of stuff isn't functioning in the 2nd release, debugging that at
the moment.
Hi again,
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 7:25 AM, Bernd Blaauw bbla...@home.nl wrote:
Slightly offtopic: is there any foolproof way to automatically switch to
the location a batchfile is in? a kind of CDD %0 except that %0 is
whatever you call it, instead of a full pathname. Same for TRUENAME %0
What exactly goes wrong when you do what?
At which step? Which error messages do you
get, or do things hang? Crash? What sorts
of everything did you try, what happened?
It hangs at the language selection screen. The very bottom selection of the
main menu looks for a non-existent
Hi,
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Virii emul...@gmail.com wrote:
It complained about a few missing packages like doslfn, wattcp, wget, ...,
but it installed. Can I just copy over the 'doslfn' from an older version's
disc, or is that feature compiled into kernel now?
No LFNs in kernel
My first guess is that you didn't choose wget for installation
On 12/23/07, Rob Larkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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'Can't install FreeDOS.
I tried to report this to Bugzilla but I'm not getting the confirmation
email(s) when I try to set up an
Hi Rob,
I tried to report this to Bugzilla but I'm not getting the
email(s) when I try to set up an account.
Read the yellow box on www.freedos.org/freedos/bugs/ - it
says that you have to get the account from us humans :-)
Anyway, my problem... when the installation routine asks me my
IP
Alex Horvath schreef:
Hi,
I have a new Windows Vista laptop. I would like to install FreeDos on
a second partition and dual boot.
I created a small extended partition and formatted it as FAT using
Partition Magic.
I then boot to the FreeDos CD and start the install process.
However,
I recommend using a boot manager. There are several free ones out there:
* GRUB http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/
* XOSL http://www.ranish.com/part/xosl.htm
* GAG http://gag.sourceforge.net/
I haven't used them with FreeDOS (I use GRUB to boot my Linux box, but
not dual-boot) but I know others
Here are two links for emulators:
* Virtual PC
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/virtualpc/default.mspx
* VMWare server (free)
http://www.vmware.com/products/server/
However, since you will be using FreeDOS to test hardware, you don't
want to run an emulator. The host OS
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Dalzell
Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 12:11 PM
To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Can't install FreeDos on extended partition?
On Mon, 6 Aug 2007, Alex Horvath wrote:
AH Hi,
AH
AH I have a new Windows Vista laptop. I
Hi Alex,
I created a small extended partition and formatted it as FAT using
Partition Magic.
Note that you should not make it too small - it should not be FAT12
and it should not be 32 MB or less, if you ask me. Actually a full
install can be around 150 MB :-). Extended partitions are a bit
] On Behalf Of Alex
Horvath
Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 12:27 PM
To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Can't install FreeDos on extended partition?
You're right about the partitions - it's been a while and I forgot.
You're also right about the Vista disks - none came
Alex Horvath schreef:
Sorry for all the newbie posts -
FreeDos did install but when I boot all I get is a _ character and no
response to keyboard input.
If I boot from the FreeDos CD I can the FreeDos files on C:.
Anything I can check?
Let's see, a very basic installation has the
That was it Bernd, partition was not set active.
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