Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] sys.com not executable on Windows 7 64bit
The USB drivers make a flash drive look like a removable hard drive, not a
floppy drive (though the drivers will also work with a USB floppy drive). You
can't start with a floppy image.
If the BIOS will correctly boot from
Hi,
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 5:55 PM, Wayne Graves wrgra...@yahoo.com wrote:
I can boot anything and I have a system in the corner that has 12 TB of disk
on it which I can build anything on. I just want to know how to get a
bootable USB up with freedos running and maybe this will do it,
Op 13-10-2011 21:44, Wayne Graves schreef:
Unlike .exe's you can't set compatability on .com's
I suspect sys.com just writes the boot block on the target device ? Any
sugestions ?
Thanks
Microsoft removed the 16bit compatibility layer on 64bit operating
systems, sorry. As we don't have a
: Thursday, October 13, 2011 12:55 PM
Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] sys.com not executable on Windows 7 64bit
Op 13-10-2011 21:44, Wayne Graves schreef:
Unlike .exe's you can't set compatability on .com's
I suspect sys.com just writes the boot block on the target device ? Any
sugestions ?
Thanks
Hi,
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 3:11 PM, Wayne Graves wrgra...@yahoo.com wrote:
I needed something standalone to run dos disk tools with and was hoping to
use Freedos.
DOS disk tools on FreeDOS? Shouldn't be a problem. ;-)
I was also trying to figure out a way to get Spinrite to run on a
Graves wrgra...@yahoo.com; freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 1:35 PM
Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] sys.com not executable on Windows 7 64bit
Hi,
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 3:11 PM, Wayne Graves wrgra...@yahoo.com wrote:
I needed something standalone to run dos disk tools
I'm retired and I fool around with lots of hardware, some of which
is nothing more then a motherboard, a keyboard and a lcd. Virtually
all motherboards come with a USB. Also when I have to deal with a
broken disk Spinrite is great but not if you can't boot it. Some
claim it will run great
Where do I find your USB drivers Bret and any information on how to use them ?
From: Bret Johnson bretj...@juno.com
To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 3:25 PM
Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] sys.com not executable on Windows 7
Hi again,
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 5:37 PM, Wayne Graves wrgra...@yahoo.com wrote:
Where do I find your USB drivers Bret and any information on how to use
them ?
http://www.bretjohnson.us/
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Op 14-10-2011 0:25, Bret Johnson schreef:
Using my USB drivers, it is possible to make a bootable USB disk or
manipulate partitions just using standard DOS tools (FORMAT, FDISK, SYS,
etc.). You don't necessarily need Windows or *nix to do that. The drivers
still have a long ways to go
To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 3:41 PM
Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] sys.com not executable on Windows 7 64bit
Op 14-10-2011 0:25, Bret Johnson schreef:
Using my USB drivers, it is possible to make a bootable USB disk or
manipulate partitions just using standard
Op 14-10-2011 0:55, Wayne Graves schreef:
I can boot anything and I have a system in the corner that has 12 TB of
disk on it which I can build anything on. I just want to know how to get
a bootable USB up with freedos running and maybe this will do it, thanks.
The difficult way I used was
The USB drivers make a flash drive look like a removable hard drive, not a
floppy drive (though the drivers will also work with a USB floppy drive). You
can't start with a floppy image.
If the BIOS will correctly boot from an external USB hard drive or flash drive,
you can simply use the
It's also available as part of the kernel package, which is really its
home (to make a system bootable floppy, for example.) I've made a
softlink on ibiblio for 'sys' into 'kernel'.
There's a README there now too, so that if you go to
Ray Davison wrote:
I have 1.0 CD and boot floppy. I cannot find a SYS.COM. I found the
DOCs for it on the CD. Where is the file?
Ray, It's available as a zipfile in:
\FREEDOS\PACKAGES\BASE\SYSX.ZIP
Cheers.
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Norbert Remmel wrote:
sounds reasonable
So when running sys, if kernel.sys is readonly (and/or system and/or
hidden) should it sys:
a) fail as it currently does
b) ask the user 1st, then remove the attributes and overwrite the
existing kernel
c) without asking the user, remove
So when running sys, if kernel.sys is readonly (and/or system and/or
hidden) should it sys:
a) fail as it currently does
b) ask the user 1st, then remove the attributes and overwrite the
existing kernel
c) without asking the user, remove the attributes and overwrite the
existing
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Betreff: Re: [Freedos-user] SYS.COM
Datum: Sun, 05 Nov 2006 04:20:04 -0500
Von: Kenneth J. Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
An: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net
CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Norbert Remmel wrote:
Hi,
Having discussed some stuff with eric before, Eric
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