On Friday 15 February 2008, robinson-west user wrote: > I could get it to work under vmware with wget believe it or not, > but I haven't gotten it to work on real hardware even with curl.
Do your "real hardware" can run anything more than the bare FreeDOS kernel? I mean games, and more "advanced" software (DPMI / protected mode, etc...). Maybe the problem is outside FDUPDATE / wget / curl... Bad memory, incorrect EMM386 settings, etc... Do you tried using the "tested" wget binary? (http://mateusz.viste.free.fr/fdupdate/wgetx.zip) > Another problem I've noticed is that fdupdate doesn't seem to > record the new version of a package that it has updated. No, FDUDPATE doesn't keep track of installed / updated software. That's the job for the application's LSM file. If the application have a LSM with an incorrect "version" record, FDUPDATE will be fooled. What problem do you exactly encounter with versionning? > My 486 is passing memtest with flying colors. It crashes every > time I try to apply or skip an update. What do you mean by "with flying colors"? If you have a bad mem, wget, curl, fdupdate, and any other DPMI application may have big problems, as it is using memory > 1 MB... > What is the fallback address? It doesn't seem to be right. As far as I remember, the fallback url is "http://www.freedos.org/update";. Indeed, there's no server there. :-) Regards, Mateusz Viste ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
