Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 crashing in VirtualBox 5.0.22

Hi, On Sat, Jul 2, 2016 at 2:19 PM, Abe Mishler wrote: > > I'm interested in learning how games like DOOM (requires 3MB available) > were able to work. I know I know, read the source code. AFAIK, Doom was originally compiled with Watcom using a DOS extender (DOS4G

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 crashing in VirtualBox 5.0.22

Great tip!!! I'll have to try that! > On Jul 2, 2016, at 6:30 PM, Ulrich Hansen wrote: > > Hi Abe, > >> Am 01.07.2016 um 14:59 schrieb Abe Mishler : >> >> except linux can >> mount raw images for native file sharing > > Today I found out: If I

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 crashing in VirtualBox 5.0.22

Hi Abe, > Am 01.07.2016 um 14:59 schrieb Abe Mishler : > > except linux can > mount raw images for native file sharing Today I found out: If I choose „VHD“ as type for the virtual harddisk in VirtualBox, I am able to mount the VirtualBox image in Windows too. See:

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 crashing in VirtualBox 5.0.22

> On Jul 1, 2016, at 4:17 PM, Rugxulo wrote: > > Hi, > >> On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 10:08 AM, Eric Auer wrote: >> >> I think that even 597 kB of low DOS memory is plenty for old DOS programs. > > "597 kb should be enough for anyone." -- Eric Auer, 2016

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 crashing in VirtualBox 5.0.22

Hi, On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 10:08 AM, Eric Auer wrote: > > I think that even 597 kB of low DOS memory is plenty for old DOS programs. "597 kb should be enough for anyone." -- Eric Auer, 2016:-) In Abe's recent screenshot, he shows that he's now getting (thanks to

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 crashing in VirtualBox 5.0.22

> Am 01.07.2016 um 14:59 schrieb Abe Mishler : > >> >> 1?DEVICE=C:\FDOS\BIN\JEMMEX.EXE NOEMS X=TEST I=B000-B7FF I=C800-EFFF >> NOVME NOINVLPG >> > That works like a charm! Do those regions work for you? Yes. I tested it on a FreeDOS 1.1 guest on my Mac. And, as I don’t

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 crashing in VirtualBox 5.0.22

Hi Ulrich! On 7/1/2016 3:35 AM, Ulrich Hansen wrote: > >> Am 01.07.2016 um 01:51 schrieb Abe Mishler > >: >> >> I have been learning a lot about JEMMEX as compared to the other >> drivers lately. > > Hi Abe, > > If you don’t mind, it would be

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 crashing in VirtualBox 5.0.22

> Am 01.07.2016 um 01:51 schrieb Abe Mishler : > > I have been learning a lot about JEMMEX as compared to the other drivers > lately. Hi Abe, If you don’t mind, it would be great if you could try one last thing with VirtualBox and JEMMEX: Please try to start JEMMEX

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 crashing in VirtualBox 5.0.22

Hi again, On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 12:34 AM, Rugxulo wrote: > > But I agree, in theory, that JEMMEX shouldn't be preferred or > suggested without a good reason. But that's not my decision for FD 1.2 > (and I forget offhand what Jerome uses, I haven't downloaded any > recent

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 crashing in VirtualBox 5.0.22

Hi, On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 6:51 PM, Abe Mishler wrote: > >> On Jun 30, 2016, at 6:19 PM, Rugxulo wrote: >> >> If JEMMEX is your only problem, then you have no problems. > > This idea has appeared before in this thread and it is a relief to hear it >

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 crashing in VirtualBox 5.0.22

Hi, > On Jun 30, 2016, at 6:19 PM, Rugxulo wrote: > > Hi, > >> On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 6:17 AM, Abe Mishler wrote: >> >>> On 6/29/2016 1:03 PM, Rugxulo wrote: >> >> On the page that you sent regarding QEMU Binaries for Windows, it says: >> "QEMU for

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 crashing in VirtualBox 5.0.22

Hi, On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 6:17 AM, Abe Mishler wrote: > >> On 6/29/2016 1:03 PM, Rugxulo wrote: > > On the page that you sent regarding QEMU Binaries for Windows, it says: > "QEMU for Windows is experimental software and might contain even > serious bugs, so use the

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 crashing in VirtualBox 5.0.22

Hi, to bring in some thoughts from off-list... JEMMEX has a built-in HIMEM which apparently is known to have problems when memory useable for XMS is discontinuous, which happens quite often on modern (virtual) hardware. The UMBPCI author tries hard to keep supporting modern chipsets which can

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 crashing in VirtualBox 5.0.22

> I think FreeDOS in QEMU on linux is the way to go (for me, at this time). Inspired by this thread I also looked into qemu (even installed it on my Mac). Just in case you missed it: There’s a great tutorial about running FreeDOS 1.1 in qemu. Part three is all about networking. :-) The author

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 crashing in VirtualBox 5.0.22

Hi Rugxulo et al., On 6/29/2016 1:03 PM, Rugxulo wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 10:05 AM, Abe Mishler wrote: >> >> On 6/28/2016 7:55 PM, Rugxulo wrote: >>> >>> I would recommend you (also) test under QEMU if you're that worried or >>> want (potentially) better

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 crashing in VirtualBox 5.0.22

Hi, On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 10:05 AM, Abe Mishler wrote: > > On 6/28/2016 7:55 PM, Rugxulo wrote: >> >> I would recommend you (also) test under QEMU if you're that worried or >> want (potentially) better stability. >> > QEMU, while about 10x slower (on Win 8.1 amd64 host),

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 crashing in VirtualBox 5.0.22

On 6/28/2016 7:55 PM, Rugxulo wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 3:55 PM, Abe Mishler wrote: >> >> Strange, right? And not just on one computer, but three separate ones; each >> running different hardware and software (host OS). Although I would expect >> that the

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 crashing in VirtualBox 5.0.22

> Am 29.06.2016 um 13:08 schrieb Don Flowers : > > The only drivers that work for this is Ulrich's FreeDOS 1.0 drivers Himem.exe > and "EMM386.EXE NOEMS" Before someone gets it wrong: The drivers were written by Tom Ehlert, Michael Devore and other fine people. Thanks!

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 crashing in VirtualBox 5.0.22

I use Novell Personal Netware for networking with a dedicated server plus each of 4 other machines acting in SERVER/CLIENT mode The only drivers that work for this is Ulrich's FreeDOS 1.0 drivers Himem.exe and "EMM386.EXE NOEMS" (no other switch is necessary). I load DOS HIGH, UMB. This gives

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 crashing in VirtualBox 5.0.22

Am 28.06.2016 um 22:55 schrieb Abe Mishler : >> is pretty unstable, at least for me. > It seems like you should be excluding a different region of memory. From your > screenshot: E300-EDFF. The packet driver works, but FDAPM is still crashing when I exclude E300-EDFF.

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 crashing in VirtualBox 5.0.22

Hi, On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 3:55 PM, Abe Mishler wrote: > > Strange, right? And not just on one computer, but three separate ones; each > running different hardware and software (host OS). Although I would expect > that the underlying differences are abstracted away by

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 crashing in VirtualBox 5.0.22

Hi Uli and Abe, indeed it seems like it is not trivial to find the right excluded areas for UMB to have stability. Having no page frame is okay - EMS 4 aware software can still use EMS, only EMS 3 software will miss a frame. Normally it is enough to have 550k conventional free. To explain the

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 crashing in VirtualBox 5.0.22

Guys, > On Jun 28, 2016, at 3:39 PM, Ulrich Hansen wrote: > > >> Am 28.06.2016 um 21:19 schrieb Ulrich Hansen : >> >> The trick is to load PCNTPK low in option 1. Then it won’t crash with your >> JEMMEX options. At least for me. :-) >> >> PCNTPK

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 crashing in VirtualBox 5.0.22

Hi, On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 12:56 PM, Abe Mishler wrote: > > It's apparent that a well written book might help me come up > to speed on all of these memory modes and managers. I'm not an expert, but the simple answer is you don't need all of them. Pure XMS (and optional

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 crashing in VirtualBox 5.0.22

> Am 28.06.2016 um 21:19 schrieb Ulrich Hansen : > > The trick is to load PCNTPK low in option 1. Then it won’t crash with your > JEMMEX options. At least for me. :-) > > PCNTPK INT=0x60 Okay, and FDAPM crashes too. I need to load it into conventional memory as well.

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 crashing in VirtualBox 5.0.22

> Am 28.06.2016 um 20:41 schrieb Ulrich Hansen : > > If I look closely, I find that PCNTPK crashes at boot. So I have no network. > No wonder all the memory is free. > https://www.lazybrowndog.net/freedos/files/freedos1.1-vbox-opt1-memory2.png >

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 crashing in VirtualBox 5.0.22

Hi Abe (and hi Eric!) > Am 28.06.2016 um 16:42 schrieb Abe Mishler : > > 1?DEVICE=C:\FDOS\BIN\JEMMEX.EXE NOEMS X=C900-DFFF I=TEST NOVME NOINVLPG > > Boot option 1 (http://tinypic.com/r/zm1boj/9 ): > Total memory Free: 26,699K > Total Expanded

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 crashing in VirtualBox 5.0.22

On 6/28/2016 11:08 AM, Eric Auer wrote: > > Hi Abe, > >> Based on Eric's suggestion of using more cautious settings, >> I found the JEMMEX doc page >> (http://help.fdos.org/en/hhstndrd/base/jemmex.htm) > > The documentation is also included in your installation on disk. > >>

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 crashing in VirtualBox 5.0.22

Hi Abe, > Based on Eric's suggestion of using more cautious settings, > I found the JEMMEX doc page > (http://help.fdos.org/en/hhstndrd/base/jemmex.htm) The documentation is also included in your installation on disk. > 1?DEVICE=C:\FDOS\BIN\JEMMEX.EXE NOEMS X=C900-DFFF I=TEST NOVME NOINVLPG

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 crashing in VirtualBox 5.0.22

Hi Ulrich, Thanks for the link. I compared the 2 files and didn't find anything of significance. Your change: IF "%config%"=="2" PCNTPK INT=0x60 IF NOT "%config%"=="2" LH PCNTPK INT=0x60 seems smart, however. Based on Eric's suggestion of using more cautious settings, I found the JEMMEX doc

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 crashing in VirtualBox 5.0.22

Hi Abe, if you like, take a look at: https://www.lazybrowndog.net/freedos/virtualbox There are three VirtualBox images of FreeDOS 1.1. I put quite some effort in them to make them work. I remember the crash you are talking about, but, sorry,

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 crashing in VirtualBox 5.0.22

Eric, Thanks for your time and attention. See my responses inline. On 6/27/2016 3:05 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > > Hi Abe, > >> upon bootup and selecting option 1, I get the following message: >> >> JemmEx v5.75 [05/21/11] >> System memory found at c900-dfff, region might be in use >> JemmEx loaded

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 crashing in VirtualBox 5.0.22

Hi Abe, > upon bootup and selecting option 1, I get the following message: > > JemmEx v5.75 [05/21/11] > System memory found at c900-dfff, region might be in use > JemmEx loaded > Kernel: allocated 46 Diskbuffers = 24472 Bytes in HMA > > after which nothing ever happens. It hangs permanently.

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 Bootable USB Image

Hi Rugxulo, I am still a fan of a FD 1.1 bootable USB image. By this time I use Qemu to build one, too. It is much easier to make the image bootable with Qemu than with Grub4DOS or Syslinux. Today I wear an USB stick together with my key ring with a bootable FD 1.1 image. I have created this

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 Bootable USB Image

Hi, On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 1:00 PM, Christian Imhorst christian.imho...@gmail.com wrote: I am still a fan of a FD 1.1 bootable USB image. By this time I use Qemu to build one, too. It is much easier to make the image bootable with Qemu than with Grub4DOS or Syslinux. QEMU is pretty great

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 install

On 2013-02-09 10:56 (GMT-0800) Ray Davison composed: A little background. My first PC ran DOS 3.3 on a 28M HDD that I broke into three partitions, all primaries. Since the extended came out every machine I have had has had a single primary - 2G or less, Fat 16 - with one or more installs of

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 install

I usually don't use the installers, try to install manually: - Copy KERNEL.SYS + FREECOM.COM + SYS.COM + WDE.COM - Backup B.S. with WDE - SYS C: /BOOTONLY On 2/9/13, Ray Davison ray...@charter.net wrote: A little background. My first PC ran DOS 3.3 on a 28M HDD that I broke into three

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1: JemmEx conflicts with Keyb

Hi, old thread ;) There were in the past conflicts with KEYB 2.00 and JEMM that were apparently solved with KEYB 2.01. The NOHI option mostly controlls KEYB access to XMS, but reading this thread, and knowing what I fixed 2.00 to 2.01, I suspect JEMM may make the DOS' memory allocation strategy

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1: JemmEx conflicts with Keyb

Am 18.06.2012 um 22:15 schrieb Aitor Santamaría: There were in the past conflicts with KEYB 2.00 and JEMM that were apparently solved with KEYB 2.01. The NOHI option mostly controlls KEYB access to XMS, but reading this thread, and knowing what I fixed 2.00 to 2.01, I suspect JEMM may make

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1: About installation cd AND system backup???

Hi, Just a little bit of non-expert info from me here, On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 5:10 PM, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook jtw...@ttlc.net wrote: It would appear that on Jun 3, Eric Auer did say: 3) you wouldn't happen to know if using clonezilla's expert mode     to de-select cloning the hidden

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1: About installation cd AND system backup???

It would appear that on Jun 3, Eric Auer did say: 3) you wouldn't happen to know if using clonezilla's expert mode to de-select cloning the hidden data between MBR and 1st partition when making a clone of a working bootable {via chainloader} freedos partition, would result in

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1: About installation cd AND system backup???

Hi! 1) When, at the end of the install, the installer asks what to do with the bootsector AKA Volume Boot Record. Is it the same thing as when a linux installer allows me to install grub to the 1st superblock of the / partition??? {it seams to have the same effect} Yes that is

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1: About installation cd AND system backup???

On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Eric Auer e.a...@jpberlin.de wrote: In the case of GRUB2 (?) it will then search the PC for bootable operating systems by looking at all boot records and present those as boot menu. Classic GRUB relied more on a configuration file for that, in GRUB2 it is more

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.1 install errors...

Hi Bernd, it seems even on modern hardware unpacking FreeCOM during install may take VERY long, so we need a fix: This seems to be specific to the old installer (v3.7.8 by Jeremy) I think, as that unpacks entire packages. Sourcecode modification would be required to add a -x source/*.

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.1 install errors...

Op 11-4-2012 20:02, Rugxulo schreef: Users will always need sources, esp. if they share, but they don't necessarily need to unpack them. (Well, anyways, they probably don't have all compilers anyways.) The entire idea of opensource was to be able to modify sources to suit a person's needs.

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.1 install errors...

Hi, On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Bernd Blaauw bbla...@home.nl wrote: Op 11-4-2012 20:02, Rugxulo schreef: The entire idea of opensource was to be able to modify sources to suit a person's needs. Most people, including me, haven't got enough interest or experience to be a programmer, but

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.1 install errors...

Hi Bernd, it seems even on modern hardware unpacking FreeCOM during install may take VERY long, so we need a fix: - it is good to have source and binary in one zip - but you can use info-zip's command line options (-x source/*) to exclude sources from unzip :-) - a default install does not

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.1 install errors...

actually I would not even OFFER a boot menu item to skip loading the XMS driver at all: You cannot even boot the install CD / USB on old pre-XMS PC. Probably a bad idea for compatibility reasons, unless you offer multiple choices for which XMS manager to install. E.g., I have a computer

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.1 install errors...

the no-drivers choice, No. 4, is provided because some programs, such as PLoP, will not load at all unless there are *no drivers* loaded, at least on my system...   PLoP chokes on any drivers in freedos 1.1, saying: cannot run under windows in a dos box, in effect.   i kid you not.

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.1 install errors...

Have you tried explicit I=- and X=- commands with JEMM386/JEMMEX?? I've tried several different JEMM options -- none of them fixed the problem on that particular computer. I finally just gave up and went to other alternatives.

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.1 install errors...

Op 10-4-2012 18:21, Eric Auer schreef: it seems even on modern hardware unpacking FreeCOM during install may take VERY long, so we need a fix: This seems to be specific to the old installer (v3.7.8 by Jeremy) I think, as that unpacks entire packages. Sourcecode modification would be required

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.1 install errors...

Op 8-4-2012 19:44, Michael B. Brutman schreef: Some of us figured out that on ancient hardware (8088, 80286, etc.) the decompression process takes a long time. If you are running in a virtual machine and your underlying hardware/operating system does not fully support virtualization then you

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.1 install errors...

On 4/3/2012 1:18 AM, Michael Robinson wrote: There is a syntax error message that flashes before the where to install freedos to and from menu comes up. Another problem, install freezes at installing command.com. Uge! Are you installing on old hardware or in a virtual machine? Some of us

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.1 install errors...

Hi, On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 1:18 AM, Michael Robinson plu...@robinson-west.com wrote: There is a syntax error message that flashes before the where to install freedos to and from menu comes up.  Another problem, install freezes at installing command.com.  Uge! I'm pretty sure it was agreed

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 released

On Sat, 2012-01-14 at 19:14 -0800, Michael Robinson wrote: First off, I don't appreciate anyone calling anyone an idiot on this email list. Second, I haven't experimented with Freedos 1.1 myself, but I hope any difficulty others have working with it is dealt with both patiently and

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 released

Op 15-1-2012 3:56, dos386 schreef: [Freedos-kernel] FreeDOS 1.1 released COOL :-) thanks, worked hard for it :) http://jafile.com/uploads/dos386/freeds11.png I like your style of coming up with screenshots, it clarifies issues quite nicely. I wish VMware's video feature would use standard

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 released

2012/1/15 dos386 dos...@gmail.com would be nice to know how many people actually installed it successfully on a __REAL__ PC ;-) I did and did it successfully. Yes, it did hang on the commandx but not mortally - for a while like some 2 minutes and then continued without problems. On a

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 released

2012/1/15 dos386 dos...@gmail.com Other: - CWSDPMI, VSM, DOSNTLFN, ... are in - INFOPAD, 7-ZIP, UNTGZ, HX/HDPMI32, MPXPLAY, FASM, CC386, FREEBASIC, ARACHNE, ... are NOT in ... what can you do with it when installed ? As for the mpxplay copied it into /fdos/bin from the previous

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 boot process ends with interrupt devide by zero and system halt

Thanx all, but as I said its impossible to figure out what driver is causing the problem, the sequence doesn't seem to be logical to fix the problem. it crashes AFTER the boot has finished. I installed version 1,0 ( 0.87 beta ) with no problem. tx ralph

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 boot process ends with interrupt devide by zero and system halt

On Jan 15, 2012 6:04 PM, Ralph Deffke ralph_def...@yahoo.de wrote: Thanx all, but as I said its impossible to figure out what driver is causing the problem, the sequence doesn't seem to be logical to fix the problem. it crashes AFTER the boot has finished. I installed version 1,0 ( 0.87

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 released

wish VMware's video feature would use standard codecs so something could be posted to Youtube or Please provide your movies in OGV or WebM files, not Loo-Tube. - It fails to find any HD (see middle shot) In the normal configurations or the dedication one? Both, but in normal configurations

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 boot process ends with interrupt devide by zero and system halt

Please try to empty FDCONFIG.SYS and FDAUTO.BAT, and re-add USEFUL things piece after piece ... and supply shot of the crash ... it crashes AFTER the boot has finished is NOT very informative. -- RSA(R) Conference 2012

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 boot process ends with interrupt devide by zero and system halt

Hi Ralph, This may seem obvious, but have you tried loading each driver individually? Also try changing the order you load them. If they are chaining interrupts, there may be a conflict. Hope this helps Jeffrey --

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 boot process ends with interrupt devide by zero and system halt

Op 14-1-2012 17:59, Ralph Deffke schreef: anybody any suggestions for the 1.1 version ? First thing you can do is modify FDCONFIG.SYS (or CONFIG.SYS) text file (EDIT C:\FDCONFIG.SYS) by commenting out the memory drivers, see if that works: DEVICE=C:\FDOS\BIN\JEMMEX.EXE then becomes:

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1: JemmEx conflicts with Keyb

Rugxulo wrote: 1?DEVICE=C:\FDOS\BIN\JEMMEX.EXE NOEMS X=TEST I=TEST NOVME NOINVLPG Why is this using NOVME NOINVLPG? Is it trying to be ultra-conservative? Is there a known VirtualBox (or other) bug somewhere? Seems odd ... though INVLPG is 486 and VME is 586, perhaps you're trying for old

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 released

[Freedos-kernel] FreeDOS 1.1 released COOL :-) http://jafile.com/uploads/dos386/freeds11.png Problems: - What's the purpose of the menu item Pasquale (see top shot) ? - It fails to find any HD (see middle shot) - Using the menu item install to harddisk, it starts installing but hangs at

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 released

At 06:56 PM 1/14/2012, dos386 wrote: [Freedos-kernel] FreeDOS 1.1 released COOL :-) http://jafile.com/uploads/dos386/freeds11.png Problems: - What's the purpose of the menu item Pasquale (see top shot) ? Are you such an idiot or are you just trying to play the troll here? It should be

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 released

First off, I don't appreciate anyone calling anyone an idiot on this email list. Second, I haven't experimented with Freedos 1.1 myself, but I hope any difficulty others have working with it is dealt with both patiently and professionally. Myself, I'm waiting for the 1.2 release. Problems:

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 released

What's the purpose of the menu item Pasquale (see top shot) ? Are you such an idiot or are you just trying to play the troll here? It should be obvious to almost everyone that this is not an active menu item Idiot yourself. It is active. Just try to select it and push ENTER :-D

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 released

I can install and update FreeDOS manually (and I've been having it for years), so the problems don't really hurt me, but for potential new users, I'd prefer a well working distro. -- RSA(R) Conference 2012 Mar 27 - Feb 2

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 released

Hi Dos386, [Freedos-kernel] FreeDOS 1.1 released http://jafile.com/uploads/dos386/freeds11.png - What's the purpose of the menu item Pasquale (see top shot) ? It is not a menu item, just a dedication :-( Maybe the fact that it is highlighted made it look like a menu item for you... I guess

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 released

At 07:14 PM 1/14/2012, Michael Robinson wrote: First off, I don't appreciate anyone calling anyone an idiot on this email list. Sorry but this was just one arrogant post of him too many! He is one of the reasons, beside my past health issues, that I have not participated in here for years.

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 released

At 07:15 PM 1/14/2012, dos386 wrote: What's the purpose of the menu item Pasquale (see top shot) ? Are you such an idiot or are you just trying to play the troll here? It should be obvious to almost everyone that this is not an active menu item Idiot yourself. It is active. Just try to

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 released

At 07:18 PM 1/14/2012, dos386 wrote: I can install and update FreeDOS manually (and I've been having it for years), so the problems don't really hurt me, but for potential new users, I'd prefer a well working distro. How about you come up with a better working installer yourself then? Ralf

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 released

Hi, On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 9:31 PM, Ralf A. Quint free...@gmx.net wrote: At 07:14 PM 1/14/2012, Michael Robinson wrote: First off, I don't appreciate anyone calling anyone an idiot on this email list. Sorry but this was just one arrogant post of him too many! He is one of the reasons,

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 released

Thanks ... It is not a menu item, just a dedication :-( the same respect to Pat can be shown even without the highlighting of that item/line and allowing to select it ;-) What types of HD do you have? IDE, SATA, USB? IDE, and there is a FAT16 partition on. Maybe because there actually is

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 released

My criticism addressed the fact that you can select Pat as a menu item, not the respect to Pat ... EOD @Ralf. -- RSA(R) Conference 2012 Mar 27 - Feb 2 Save $400 by Jan. 27 Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev2

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1: JemmEx conflicts with Keyb

Op 13-1-2012 16:11, Ulrich Hansen schreef: This seems to be a minor (but annoying) bug in FreeDOS 1.1: The german keyboard does not work after the install. If I install the US keyboard, there is no problem. Description: I have installed FreeDOS 1.1 with german language and keyboard. If I

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1: JemmEx conflicts with Keyb

Am 13.01.2012 um 18:54 schrieb Bernd Blaauw: Op 13-1-2012 16:11, Ulrich Hansen schreef: Description: I have installed FreeDOS 1.1 with german language and keyboard. If I boot (after a fresh install) with bootmenu option 1 (Load FreeDOS with JemmEx) keyb will crash with the error message:

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1: JemmEx conflicts with Keyb

Hi, On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Ulrich Hansen uhan...@mainz-online.de wrote: Am 13.01.2012 um 18:54 schrieb Bernd Blaauw: Op 13-1-2012 16:11, Ulrich Hansen schreef: Description: I have installed FreeDOS 1.1 with german language and keyboard. If I boot (after a fresh install) with

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1: JemmEx conflicts with Keyb

Am 14.01.2012 um 00:17 schrieb Rugxulo: In FDCONFIG.SYS I went back to all the original settings of FreeDOS 1.1. So the JemmEx line looks like this again: 1?DEVICE=C:\FDOS\BIN\JEMMEX.EXE NOEMS X=TEST I=TEST NOVME NOINVLPG Why is this using NOVME NOINVLPG? Is it trying to be

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 released

I have discovered the wifi connection I am using have a locked ftp port... May be someone is so kind to start a torrent and inform where to download :-) BTW thepiratebay.org reports 3 torrents for the iso 1.0 -- -- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Marco A. Achury Tel: +58-(212)-6158777 Cel: +58-(414)-3142282

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 released

At 09:34 AM 1/4/2012, Marco Achury wrote: I have discovered the wifi connection I am using have a locked ftp port... That won't cause any problems, as there is an http download link presented on the FreeDOS download page for your convenience as well. ;-) That's btw the link I tested the other

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 released

hmmm no idea what is the problem. On http link I can get the directory listing, I can read announce.txt but cant download the file. El 04/01/2012 01:18 p.m., Ralf A. Quint escribió: At 09:34 AM 1/4/2012, Marco Achury wrote: I have discovered the wifi connection I am using have a locked ftp

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 released

Hi! Austrian Newspaper: mobil.derstandard.at/1325485654057/Release-Freie-MSDOS-Alternative-FreeDOS-11-veroeffentlicht Florian -- Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Linux-Mobiltelefon mit K-9 Mail gesendet. James Hall jh...@freedos.org schrieb: 2012/1/3 Aitor Santamaría aitor...@gmail.com:

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 released

I have discovered the wifi connection I am using have a locked ftp port... That won't cause any problems, as there is an http download link presented on the FreeDOS download page for your convenience as well. ;-) That's btw the link I tested the other day... And in a few minutes, we'll have

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 released

At 01:58 PM 1/4/2012, James Hall wrote: I have discovered the wifi connection I am using have a locked ftp port... That won't cause any problems, as there is an http download link presented on the FreeDOS download page for your convenience as well. ;-) That's btw the link I tested the

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 released

And in a few minutes, we'll have a torrent seed, thanks to our friends at ibiblio. :-) That's working fine as well, about 3x as fast as http, with only 1 peer when I started (myself?, shows 6 peers by the time I was finished). But would be surprised if that would work for Marco, that an ISP

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 released

The torrent worked for me, thanks a lot. I think that torrent protocol is designed to look for a free port. -- -- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Marco A. Achury Tel: +58-(212)-6158777 Cel: +58-(414)-3142282 Skype: marcoachury http://www.achury.com.ve El 04/01/2012 06:11 p.m., James Hall escribió: And

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 released

On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 7:09 PM, Marco Achury marcoach...@gmail.com wrote: I cant connect ibiblio today, Appear that freedos release has colapsed the servers :-) Would be interesting to get downloads statistics in order to know how many people around the world is following freedos

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 released

Would be interesting to get downloads statistics in order to know how many people around the world is following freedos development... I'll see what stats we can get from ibiblio. Been a while since I needed stats from them, but they do track it. At worst, I may have to wait until the end of

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 released

Just as a curiosity. Aas my google searches in Spanish by default, hours after the release, I have noticed that there are already two sites having an article covering that already (I don't know either of them personaly): http://www.neoteo.com/freedos-1-1-nueva-version-del-dos-gratuito

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 released

I'm so pleased that it has finally been released. I'm getting ready to grab FreeDOS 1.1 to do some nostalgic DOS tinkering right now. 2012/1/3 Aitor Santamaría aitor...@gmail.com Just as a curiosity. Aas my google searches in Spanish by default, hours after the release, I have noticed that

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 released

I cant connect ibiblio today, Appear that freedos release has colapsed the servers :-) Would be interesting to get downloads statistics in order to know how many people around the world is following freedos development... -- -- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Marco A. Achury Tel: +58-(212)-6158777 Cel:

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 released

At 05:09 PM 1/2/2012, Marco Achury wrote: I cant connect ibiblio today, Appear that freedos release has colapsed the servers :-) Works just fine and snappy from California Ralf -- Write once. Port to many. Get

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 released

Congratulations!!! On Jan 1, 2012, at 7:32 PM, Bernd Blaauw bbla...@home.nl wrote: I'm happy to announce that the FreeDOS 1.1 distribution is finally available, including sources to all packages. You'll notice it's quite a basic version, lacking some features and programs that were

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.1...

Op 29-12-2011 9:19, Michael Robinson schreef: How soon will the official release be? :-) Somewhere this weekend, so either 2011 or 2012 :) -- Ridiculously easy VDI. With Citrix VDI-in-a-Box, you don't need a complex

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1

Op 15-12-2011 18:33, Mark Brown schreef: As for other news, how is Freedos 1.1 coming along? Do you need it badly? yes! will anyone please send me a copy of it? It will be published when done, likely just before Christmas. Current binary release is about 16MB but I'll have to add sources,

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.1...

On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Bernd Blaauw bbla...@home.nl wrote: Op 17-10-2011 11:00, Michael C. Robinson schreef: Guess I've been bouncing for about a week. So, will Freedos 1.1 come out by Christmas? Earlier hopefully. I intended end of summer holiday, but there's still some software

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos 1.1...

Op 17-10-2011 11:00, Michael C. Robinson schreef: Guess I've been bouncing for about a week. So, will Freedos 1.1 come out by Christmas? Earlier hopefully. I intended end of summer holiday, but there's still some software changes I'm waiting for (kernel and install) , and some changes I'd

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