Hi, On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 1:13 AM, John R. Sowden <jsow...@americansentry.net> wrote: > > got a 'distribution disk' of freedos
Where? Which version? What files? > , ran the sys command. To / from what? Floppy? Hard drive? > copied it from the net to a floppy using ubuntu 13.10 Assuming the floppy is intact, I guess that would work with dd (or similar) if the media size is the same. > put it in a 486 24MB windows 98 computer with the windows programs > removed and the MSDOS 7.10 and 4dos in place, with a network. I assume here that you mean you're replacing MS-DOS with FreeDOS. Was there a particular reason for this, some specific program that wouldn't run or some other restriction? > A few issues: > > Freedos did not like 'sys'ing to the floppy that it resides on, so I > could boot into freedos, What did it say exactly? Did you try a different physical floppy disk? "sys a: c:"? Anyways, you can always boot FreeDOS via other means, hence allowing you to still read / write via FreeDOS on an optional basis. (Heck, the "MS-DOS 8" embedded within DISKCOPY.DLL that you can still write to floppy via Windows explorer [tested on Win7] has no SYS.COM command at all.) > running the ver command shows MD DOS version 7.10. I don't know if > MSDOS is still there or if this is a compatibility issue. I'd sure like > it to say freedos, if it is. The shell may misunderstand, who knows. But "normally" (although I haven't used MS-DOS / Win9x in a few years) I wouldn't expect it to say "MS-DOS" unless it was in fact MS-DOS. Though indeed the FAT32 version of FreeDOS by default always claims to be version 7.10. Well, the obvious answer is to check (or clean) your root directory. If there's only KERNEL.SYS and maybe COMMAND.COM, it's definitely FreeDOS. > Running the defrag program (freedos version) only allowed me to do a > 'quickie'. the real options were grayed out. I have a little dos stuff > (about 130mb) in the middle of this huge 4.3 gb drive. I releived the > drive of its win98 burden. I want the dos at the beginning, and the > unused 'wiped', as the program suggests. Literally in the middle of the partition? How many partitions do you have? FAT16? FAT32? Primary? Active? When you say 4.3 GB, I assume you mean physical drive, not just partition. > Freedos complains that my last drive is not high enough. Where? At bootup? When running a specific program? > It runs, but it stops and waits for a <return>. This will confuse my secty > tomorrow > morning. I assume you mean "secretary"? Sounds like a time crunch, ugh, sorry if this isn't more helpful. Hmmm, you don't mean prompt for date + time do you? It always does that (IIRC) if no AUTOEXEC.BAT is found. > I run a network called "little big lan" (love it). It has a > program to set the last drive called netunits. I have it set to 10. > This computer has a floppy, a hd, and a cd. No more. 10 has been enough > for msdos 7.1 for the last decade. Raising it to 12 had no effect. You mean LASTDRIVE in CONFIG.SYS? No, it sounds like "netunits" (never heard of it). I'm far from experienced in networking, esp. old MS-DOS LAN stuff, but the normal way to increase drives is via LASTDRIVE. Though that's fairly common, so I assume you tried that. But that's all I can think of (and obviously that only uses letters, not numbers). Maybe you meant FILES? Nah, doubt it. > Thoughts? > > John (wordstar 5.5 and foxpro/dos forever!) "Just use Li..." ... Sorry, got carried away there. ;-) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Android is increasing in popularity, but the open development platform that developers love is also attractive to malware creators. Download this white paper to learn more about secure code signing practices that can help keep Android apps secure. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=65839951&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
