Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS USB installation

2009-01-25 Thread Angel Martin Alganza
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 06:23:57PM +, k...@comcast.net wrote: > Will the EEEpc boot from a USB flash drive? It does. I run Haiku on mine booting from a USB flash drive. Ángel -- This SF.net email is sponsored by: So

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS USB installation

2009-01-25 Thread kd4d
Will the EEEpc boot from a USB flash drive? If so, install FreeDOS on the USB flash from another computer, boot it on the EEEpc, and install FreeDOS "normally" on the EEEpc. Many (probably most) computers with modern BIOSs will recognize a USB flash drive if it is installed at boot time. This

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS USB installation

2009-01-25 Thread Michael Reichenbach
Some options: a) "installing" just means creating MBR, creating bootsector, copying system files plus copying some applicaitons, there is no force to use an installer, you can do this copying steps yourself b) you can boot grub4dos from USB and emulate then the freedos installer iso and install t

Re: [Freedos-user] Loading old DOS programs under FreeDOS

2009-01-25 Thread Amedee Van Gasse
Amedee Van Gasse schreef: > Eric Auer schreef: >> Hi :-) >> >> I think WordPerfect 5.1 was a really popular word processor >> for DOS, much more suited for DOS use than graphical Word >> versions today... >> >> The ODF and MS-OOXML formats are, as far as I remember, both >> actually "renamed" ZIP f

Re: [Freedos-user] Loading old DOS programs under FreeDOS

2009-01-25 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, > Yes, I was able to extract plain text from OOXML, without any format > code, is a first step. But is needed a lot of carefull check of the > tags to get the rigth and of paragraf. > > Make this for example at prompt. > > 7z e -so -y yourdocument.doc > outfile.xml > ex doc2txt.ex outfile.x