Hi, > Okay. I would really like to use FreeDOS, preferrably the full-install CD, > and definitely with USB disk support. Problem is, the NIC in the computer I
On modern PC, your BIOS already does USB disk support for you and DOS. For the others, you can try the USB drivers made by Georg Potthast: www.georgpotthast.de/usb/ (see also Sioux server, NIC driver page ;-)) > want to install it on (a 3Com 3C595-TX) does not appear to be recognized by > either the default packet driver or the manufacturer's DOS driver, unless it > requires some fiddling with the PCI arguments (which are, frankly, over my > head.) And a large portion of the packages, including some absolutely You should give some more details about why the "manufacturer driver" fails. Any error messages? Did you try NwDSK yet? www.veder.com/nwdsk/ > critical ones like the USB mass storage driver, seem to rely on the > installer's ability to use wget to download the latest version off the > Internet. Is there a way around this problem, or am I SOL without a > more commonly-supported network card? On the FdDependencies page on the fd-doc wiki, you can see that mostly the following use internet (invoke wget) during install: FProt, ASPI, SCSI (not needed for BIOS drives), USBDOS, VIA (VIA audio) Also, wget, wattcp, fdstpop, bsflite, lnxsmal, lynx, lynxex, openxp, vnc, hxrt and arachne can be useful online. XHarbor and OWatcom are very big (XHarbor also requires OWatcom). I would recommend to NOT install any of the "use internet during install" packages initially, as internet connections often hang at this point. You can add and finetune internet drivers later. And of course you can download ZIPs with any other system where the internet does work and then unzip them on your DOS drive :-). Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex Builder(TM) are powering Web 2.0 with engaging, cross-platform capabilities. Quickly and easily build your RIAs with Flex Builder, the Eclipse(TM)based development software that enables intelligent coding and step-through debugging. Download the free 60 day trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-adobe-com _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
