Re: [Freedos-user] I'm looking for a way to use a USB floppy drive - I can boot from a CDROM drive o
I finally got the USB floppy drive able to boot after a BIOS update :) I'm progressing... I 'shrank' the NTFS partitition and defined a fat16(LBA) partititon in the freed space. I booted the install disc and got it mostly done, but I'm having difficulty setting up TCP/IP. The config script detects the laptops onboard ethernet port (Realtek RTL8139/810x Family Fast Ethernet NIC) and attempts to connect to my router's DHCP server and appears to hang there. The router is setup to provide IPs in the range of 192.168.215.3-24 (.2 is a second router, .25 .26 are TCP/IP printers, .27 is a TCP/IP connected disc drive, 27-30 are unused) netmask 255.255.255.192 gateway 192.168.215.1 dns 192.168.215.1 (router forwards to where ever its DHCP client got as DNS server(s)). This computer is supposed to get 192.168.215.5 according to the routers pseudo-static MAC to IP mapping. Is there a way specify the IP's and netmask to the TCP/IP client so it can set itself up? something equivilent to ifconfig route. I get stuck in the install process trying to get a DHCP connection to the router. Since the DHCP client never finishes, the install script can't go to the next thing to do. I was hoping I could specify the IPs and netmask manually to avoid the DHCP client's hanging. Can FreeDOS print to a TCP/IP connected LPR server? Thanks Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 03:28:27 +0100 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] I'm looking for a way to use a USB floppy drive - I can boot from a CDROM drive ok Hi David, actually a few 100 MB FAT16 should be fine for DOS already :-) Remember to use LBA partitions if you put them after the first 8 GB of your disk. Depending on your boot menu, you will only be able to boot from primary partitions. You can NOT run our installer from within Windows, but you can unzip the package zips into a c:fdos directory to get the equivalent of a good part of the install process. You will then have to write the autoexec / config manually, though, and you will still have to boot DOS from USB, cdrom or diskette to run SYS to install the kernel, command.com and a boot sector on a FAT partition. There is also a SYS-style tool which can be used from within Linux, useful if you cannot boot any DOS from USB/CD/floppy. Note that DMF format might be a problem for USB floppy drives. You can actually copy the ISO to c:fdbootcd.iso and then boot from our special installer diskette: It will then mount the ISO and run the rest of the install process :-). Of course c: is what DOS calls c: here - the first FAT partition. Where can I get a driver set for a USB foppy drive If you have a good BIOS, the USB floppy will be visible to DOS. With some BIOSes, this only works if you actually do boot from the USB floppy. For generic USB storage such as USB sticks (flash drives) and external harddisks, there are a few DOS drivers available. I myself prefer USBASPI (Panasonic, version 2.15) and ASPIDISK (Adaptec?) which are both free but copyrighted and closed source. You load the USBASPI driver first and then load ASPIDISK which is a sort of create drive letters for SCSI/ASPI drives driver. Note that you do not need ASPIDISK for real SCSI harddisks because those already have a bootable BIOS so DOS creates drive letters itself at boot time already. Eric PS: You should not expect hotplugging with most drivers, but I guess some of the DOS USB drivers do support it maybe DUSE does... - SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user - SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] I'm looking for a way to use a USB floppy drive - I can boot from a CDROM drive o
On Wednesday 05 December 2007, David Zabriskie wrote: Is there a way specify the IP's and netmask to the TCP/IP client so it can set itself up? something equivilent to ifconfig route. I get stuck in the install process trying to get a DHCP connection to the router. Since the DHCP client never finishes, the install script can't go to the next thing to do. I was hoping I could specify the IPs and netmask manually to avoid the DHCP client's hanging. I think you shouldn't try to install the network at FreeDOS install. Let FreeDOS install itself offline, and once you have clean and bootable FreeDOS install on your disk, go into the network configuration. No, there isn't any ifconfig/route counterparts out of the box, you have to install them further. FreeDOS (and the most of FreeDOS applications) is using the WatTCP library to access the network. To change your network settings you have to edit the WATTCP.CFG file, in which you can freely set your own IP, without relying on DHCP/BOOTP. Can FreeDOS print to a TCP/IP connected LPR server? Yes and no. FreeDOS doesn't have any support for network printers. Personally, I can use my network printer in FreeDOS, but it requires some dirty hacks ;-) I uses the JetDirect protocol (port 9100), which is supported by most (if not all) LPR servers. A paste from a previous post of mine: To begin, there must be some software installed in the PATH: 1. WatTCP (http://www.bgnett.no/~giva/) 2. LPT2FILE (http://sac-ftp.externet.hu/utiltext15.html) 3. JD.EXE from PPRD 2.0 (http://www.smashco.com/wattcp/pprd200.zip) 4. A packet driver for your network card I made a simple batch file, which calls the application I want to print with, catch all the LPT stuff to a file, and finally send the LPT file to the network printer: -- [netprint.bat] -- LPT2FILE %1 LPT2FILE %TEMP%\PRINTME.PRN JD %TEMP%\PRINTME.PRN DEL %TEMP%\PRINTME.PRN - Now, I have just to invoke the program I want with netprint program.exe, and all printing stuff will be done at the program's end. Of course, wattcp.cfg have to be configured according to the given LAN, and those lines have to be added: PRINTERHOST = 192.168.xxx.xxx PORTBASE = 9100 PRINTERNUM = 0 It's maybe not the most elegant way, but it works :-) I tested that solution with the following printing software: WordPerfect 6.0, MS EDIT 2.0.026, PrintPartner 3.5, BannerMania 1.00, EnVision Pro 2.04, and I hadn't any troubles. Thanks You're welcome ;-) Mateusz Viste - SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] I'm looking for a way to use a USB floppy drive - I can boot from a CDROM drive o
both those links fail :( anywhere else to look for the instructs and list of packages? Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 11:34:22 +0100 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] I'm looking for a way to use a USB floppy drive - I can boot from a CDROM drive o Hi David, I booted the install disc and got it mostly done, but I'm having difficulty setting up TCP/IP. The config script detects the laptops onboard ethernet port (Realtek RTL8139/810x Family Fast Ethernet NIC) and attempts to connect to my router's DHCP server and appears to hang there... You can set up the networking manually, but I do really recommend to do a plain offline install - which is also a lot faster. You can configure your network manually later, it is not strictly needed for installation. After all, DOS is no Ubuntu ;-). Just make sure you unselect the network related packages: I would recommend to install without network, see: http://fd-doc.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php?n=FdDocEn.FdInstall You can find a list of internet-using packages here: http://fd-doc.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php?n=FdDocEn.FdDependencies ... For manual setup, you edit the wattcp.cfg file on the installed system later :-). There is an interactive setup thing in the installer, but there you cannot enter a DNS server IP, so it is kind of pointless? I hope Blair Campbell will provide a howto for fixing the interactive setup and for manual edit of wattcp.cfg, although the latter is semi self explaining ;-). Since the DHCP client never finishes, the install script can't go to the next thing to do. I was hoping I could specify the IPs and netmask manually to avoid the DHCP client's hanging. Can FreeDOS print to a TCP/IP connected LPR server? Dunno, many Linux packages were ported to DOS with the DJGPP GNU C compiler and C libraries for DOS. For example there is a DOS version of the command line tool smbclient for Samba. I think it was on mik.mkw.ru/dos-stuff/ :-). Eric - SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user - SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] I'm looking for a way to use a USB floppy drive - I can boot from a CDROM drive o
David Zabriskie schrieb: Can FreeDOS print to a TCP/IP connected LPR server? I don't know if this helps, but lpr (lpq, lprm) is part of several DOS TCP/IP networking suites including: - NCSA Telnet (public domain) ftp://ftp.uu.net/.vol/1/applic/NCSA_Telnet/PC/tel2308b.zip - CUTCP (public domain) ftp://ftp.cc.umanitoba.ca/software/pc_network/cutcp-b.zip - WatTCP (GNU LGPL) http://frontier.eas.asu.edu/linux/software/dos/wat1104.zip Use the link above as Erick Engelke's download link on http://www.erickengelke.com/wattcp/index.shtml seems to be broken. The compiled verisons are in the folder /apps/apps.zip Good luck! Ulrich Hansen - SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
