I was the gent Dennis McC mentions having Puppy Linux running in an old
machine in the thread "Install basic Puppy on a computer with 16 Mb
RAM". After about a year I'd migrated that 430CDS Satellite Pro fully to
FreeDOS, in a hobby project I mentioned earlier on this forum as
"FreeDOS4Kids". That machine now has 48Mb RAM, but has lost the LCD
screen to a cactus inverter or bulb - I haven't had time to find out.
Works fine hooked to an external monitor. I have Ronald Blankendaal's
"Access" GUI as the games launcher, and the whole show launches straight
into the games in seconds. ("Pepper's Adventures in Time", "Another
World", "Albion", "Prince of Persia", "WarCraft", "DiscWorld", "Dune II"
are currently favoured games.) Just some tweaking with CD configuration,
memory management issues for various DOS games to go. It's a
work-in-progress...Now very recently I *finally* acquired a 44-pin IDE adapter for a 16GB SD-card, to replace the original 1358MB PATA. This was done for greater performance, cooler running etc. Avoided the CF-card route, thanks also to earlier discussions in this forum. Now all my searches suggested that the latest BIOS for that Toshiba would handle the FreeDOS 1.1 installation from CD, and even despite scaling back to a 2GB SD card, and trying a similar install on a 196MB RAM Portege 3480CT - I still ran into problems (Very difficult getting around the PCMCIA CD-drive issue in the latter case). Even formatting the hard drive via the early instal steps on the CD failed to There were some unusual, but mostly cosmetic error messages returned that didn't appear with the installation of FreeDOS 1.0. I made notes - misplaced during the Christmas buzz - but can dig them out again if anyone wants. After some trial-and-error I realized that I was missing a bootloader all along. I installed GRUB4DOS and away I go now - but for the install of a single OS, Grub etc shouldn't be normally required? Is there a bootloader stage in the latest install process that has been omitted somehow? I wasn't able to install FreeDOS 1.1 from the CD, but I cloned the original PATA drive to the 2GB SD with no further issue. So I have just a few requests for the installation process as a FreeDOS user: 1) clearer instructions on how to do the "copy CD onto HD" route for installation. There's info buried in the ISO, but I only found it once, 2) some installation workarounds for the "if you have a PCMCIA cd-rom...", and 3) improved format /system HD / bootloader process. That's about all the feedback I have for the time being. Apologies if some of the above issues have been addressed elsewhere and I've skimmed over it, Thanks, and Happy New Year -- Andrew Robins arob...@fastmail.fm On Sun, Dec 30, 2012, at 04:09 AM, David Kerber wrote: > On 12/28/2012 2:30 PM, dmccunney wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 7:23 AM, kurt godel <wb2...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> XP2 will run in as little as 100 mb. > > I'll assume you've done so and will take your word for it, but I'm > > assuming a flexible definition of "run". > > > > How long did it take to boot? What could you do under it once it had? > > It likely boots much faster than a normal desktop because you get the > memory usage down by turning off unneeded services and devices which > take time to start up. > > We sell an industrial data collection machine based on XP that runs in > about 80MB of allocated memory. We turn off the server service, themes > and a couple others, along with unneeded devices, and have only tcpip v4 > networking enabled. Doing a warm reboot takes about 20 sec IIRC from > the time I click shutdown to the time it's back up taking data again. > > It still is manageable remotely with either remote desktop or > pcanywhere, and runs 3 applications simultaneously that do our > functionality, and send out the data in a continuous stream over the > internet. The applications do have GUIs, though they are quite simple, > being mainly status displays. > > > > > ______ > > Dennis > > https://plus.google.com/u/0/105128793974319004519 > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Master HTML5, CSS3, ASP.NET, MVC, AJAX, Knockout.js, Web API and > > much more. Get web development skills now with LearnDevNow - > > 350+ hours of step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. > > SALE $99.99 this month only -- learn more at: > > http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122812 > > _______________________________________________ > > Freedos-user mailing list > > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, > MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current > with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft > MVPs and experts. SALE $99.99 this month only -- learn more at: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122912 > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_123012 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
