Re: [Freedos-devel] freedos emulation under 64-bit windows 7

2010-05-12 Thread Alain Mouette
Let me give you more useable answers. Are you trying to use legacy DOS programs in Win7? I know thar Qemu used to work grat, and it is actively developed. It will give you a nice emulated machine with a NIC emulation. VirtualBox should work too, and should be much more easy. Both have nice vesa

Re: [Freedos-devel] freedos emulation under 64-bit windows 7

2010-05-12 Thread dos386
[2^10B=1024B=1KiB][2^20B=1048576B=1MiB][2^30B=1073741824B=1GiB][2^40B=1099511627776B=1TiB] Good :-) > Note: disk size is measured in MB, GB, or TB I use KiB, MiB, GiB, TiB, PiB, EiB only ;-) > I want XP Better place for such issues: http://www.msfn.org/board/forum/34-windows-xp/ -- ~~~ wow

Re: [Freedos-devel] exFAT as a freedos filesystem?

2010-05-12 Thread dos386
> what about the exFAT filesystem? Already on my CRAP LIST ;-) > - it is 64-bit (63-bit?) in any case, the filesystem handles huge amounts of > data. maybe true > - it is supported by windows vista SP1 and 7 (but not by xp prior to SP2) maybe true > - it doesn't have the shortsighted 32GB l

Re: [Freedos-devel] freedos emulation under 64-bit windows 7

2010-05-12 Thread dos386
> I have a problem. the only OS microsoft offers now is windows 7. Private problem of Macro$oft :-D Use DBAN to delete it and install FreeDOS then ;-) > machines from HP only have drivers for windows 7 Many devices are sufficiently generic (USB, IDE/SATA, ICH/HDA sound, Graph usually has some V

[Freedos-devel] exFAT as a freedos filesystem?

2010-05-12 Thread Jim Michaels
what about the exFAT filesystem? - it is 64-bit (63-bit?) in any case, the filesystem handles huge amounts of data. - it is supported by windows vista SP1 and 7 (but not by xp prior to SP2) - it doesn't have the shortsighted 32GB limitation imposed by ill-written microsoft software. FAT32 can

[Freedos-devel] freedos emulation under 64-bit windows 7

2010-05-12 Thread Jim Michaels
I have a problem. the only OS microsoft offers now is windows 7. machines from HP only have drivers for windows 7. I want XP. so I am up a creek without a paddle trying to do dos development and needing a newer intel machine with more cores (4 or 6). so, since everything HP offers is 64-bi