Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK another partition problem
On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 11:35, Gerry Hickman wrote: Johnson Lam wrote: Strange that FreeDOS can see the full size 140GB, but MS-DOS just 8GB This could well be a limitation with MS-DOS. There were certainly differences between MS-DOS 6.22 FDISK and the FDISK that ships with Win95/98/ME (FAT32 and large drives), but none of them are as nice as FreeDOS. I multiboot this system with PCDOS2k and Linux. 8gb is the limit I found for extended partitions. Larger is not seen as a dos disk. Logical partitions and the primary are limited to about 2g. -- +-CWSIV+ || || \ /|\ || |\ / |~~\ /~~\ /~~| //~~\| || \ / | \ || | X |__/||| |( `--.| ||__ | | \| \_/ / \ | \ \__/ \__| \\__/| || ++ --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477alloc_id=16492op=click ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] FDISK MBR and FORMAT questions
On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 13:01, Bernd Blaauw any valid MBR starts with AA55, so if no AA55, FDISK /MBR might be done automatically. Am I correct, Eric? Any 'dump MBR to file' programs available so we could verify what the contents of MBR is on an empty (unpartitioned probably?) harddisk? You need a device copy program which allows direct access. I only know of one in linux called dd. IMHO it should be ported to Freedos also with dd_rescue for damaged disks. You can try it under knoppix.com or get a copy with book from Oreilly. Otherwise your stuck with payware AFAIK from Symmantec akd Norton Utilities. -- +-CWSIV+ || || \ /|\ || |\ / |~~\ /~~\ /~~| //~~\| || \ / | \ || | X |__/||| |( `--.| ||__ | | \| \_/ / \ | \ \__/ \__| \\__/| || ++ --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects Teams * Testing QA Security * Process Improvement Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Is there a maximum partition size in the FreeDOS kernel?
On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 12:38, Arkady V.Belousov wrote: Hi! 22-Июл-2005 10:18 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carl William Spitzer IV) wrote to FreeDOS freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: kn What's the size limit on a partition for the FreeDOS kernel? 2 Gb for FAT16 partition, 2 Tb for the FAT32 partition. But all programs, which use only 32-bit arithmetics and use plain old DOS functions (non-FAT32 aware) always will see 2 Gb free, even if there (on FAT32 partition) is more free space. CWI In crashing this machine I found that the extended is limited to 8gig If BIOS doesn't present INT13 extension functions - then yes, FreeDOS limited to 7.8 Gb. If those functions present in BIOS - then FreeDOS may access all disk space. CWI out of which you can carve up your logical partitions which share the CWI 2gig limit. Again: 2 Gb is a _FAT16_ limit. FAT32 limited to 2 _Tb_. Legacy windows / PCdos2000 is what I have for a legacy app of two. Tricky but do-able since I started with Suse 7.0 and kept copies of fstab . -- +-CWSIV+ || || \ /|\ || |\ / |~~\ /~~\ /~~| //~~\| || \ / | \ || | X |__/||| |( `--.| ||__ | | \| \_/ / \ | \ \__/ \__| \\__/| || ++ --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects Teams * Testing QA Security * Process Improvement Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS won't boot correctly from hard disk
On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 17:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, all: Back to my other laptop and other problem. I am unable to install FreeDOS on my 477 MB FAT32 partition. This is a DIFFERENT laptop entirely. There is an extended partition, and an NTFS partition. The FAT32 partition is a primary partition (the third, I believe). www.bootdisk.com try it with a MSDOS 622 or PCDOS disk and use its fdisk. There is some disagreement about partition marking between windows and linux and rumors that MickeyMouse will be changing again for some version of NTFS. So I would advise trying to cheat in this way. BTW there is now an Oreilly book on Knoppix and its tricks. Looked like a good toolkit to have just in case. -- +-CWSIV+ || || \ /|\ || |\ / |~~\ /~~\ /~~| //~~\| || \ / | \ || | X |__/||| |( `--.| ||__ | | \| \_/ / \ | \ \__/ \__| \\__/| || ++ --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477alloc_id=16492op=click ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Is there a maximum partition size in the FreeDOS kernel?
On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 15:22, Arkady V.Belousov wrote: Hi! 16-Июл-2005 00:07 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: kn What's the size limit on a partition for the FreeDOS kernel? 2 Gb for FAT16 partition, 2 Tb for the FAT32 partition. But all programs, which use only 32-bit arithmetics and use plain old DOS functions (non-FAT32 aware) always will see 2 Gb free, even if there (on FAT32 partition) is more free space. In crashing this machine I found that the extended is limited to 8gig out of which you can carve up your logical partitions which share the 2gig limit. -- +-CWSIV+ || || \ /|\ || |\ / |~~\ /~~\ /~~| //~~\| || \ / | \ || | X |__/||| |( `--.| ||__ | | \| \_/ / \ | \ \__/ \__| \\__/| || ++ --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477alloc_id=16492op=click ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS kicks some serious Ass!
On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 17:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, some people just don't like WindowsXP. It's hard to buy a new computer without it installed, though! File a microsoft refund form. Then install your favorite dos and your favorite distro and enjoy. -- +-CWSIV+ || || \ /|\ || |\ / |~~\ /~~\ /~~| //~~\| || \ / | \ || | X |__/||| |( `--.| ||__ | | \| \_/ / \ | \ \__/ \__| \\__/| || ++ --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477alloc_id=16492op=click ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] What about a GUI
On Sat, 2005-06-18 at 13:15, DJ Shaji wrote: So, got a MS-DOS compatible operating system. But what about a GUI ? It would be rather cool to have a GUI, similiar to GNOME or KDE for Linux. Or maybe to modify FreeDos so that KDE or GNOME can work on it. Just an idea :) There is dosemu under linux. This will allow you to use a window manager for those tasks easer to handle in gui while keeping freedos unencumbered to run in konsole. +-CWSIV+ || || \ /|\ || |\ / |~~\ /~~\ /~~| //~~\| || \ / | \ || | X |__/||| |( `--.| ||__ | | \| \_/ / \ | \ \__/ \__| \\__/| || ++ --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477alloc_id=16492op=click ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Re: Freedos build environment
You might try ebay for old copies of Borland's compilers. Youll need the books and I cant bootleg those for you. -- +-CWSIV+ --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Yahoo. Introducing Yahoo! Search Developer Network - Create apps using Yahoo! Search APIs Find out how you can build Yahoo! directly into your own Applications - visit http://developer.yahoo.net/?fr=offad-ysdn-ostg-q22005 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Minimum FreeDOS on a 1.44 Floppy with Symantec's Ghost
On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 10:30, Noel Sant wrote: I use Ghost to do backups, and prefer the older version that runs under DOS, booted from a floppy. But (for various reasons) I need fdisk and format on it. Ghost, when creating the floppy, uses PC-DOS, but does not add these commands, and I do not have a PC-DOS version of them. If I use the MS-DOS versions, which I do have, I get Incorrect version. I have PCDOS2000 by IBM I can make you a boot disk with whatever fits. If you have good bandwidth I can make an iso of that which you can dd back to floppy at your pleasure. Or I can do it with 2disk and 2 floppy which are free and send them as well. -- +-CWSIV+ --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Yahoo. Introducing Yahoo! Search Developer Network - Create apps using Yahoo! Search APIs Find out how you can build Yahoo! directly into your own Applications - visit http://developer.yahoo.net/?fr=offad-ysdn-ostg-q22005 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Bootable DOS CD
On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 13:16, Fox wrote: On Tuesday 10 May 2005 19:43, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote: I want to make my own bootable dos CD. My current attempts using K3b under Suse make bootable cd's but I can not then access the additional files. 1) What am I doing wrong? You have just to include DOS drivers for your CDROM drive on the boot section. How would I do that when I have both a cdrom and a cdrw? +-CWSIV+ --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Oracle Space Sweepstakes Want to be the first software developer in space? Enter now for the Oracle Space Sweepstakes! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7412alloc_id=16344op=click ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] text editor's and mem command
On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 17:16, GNU_man wrote: Ok this is two questions in one here, I just did a real minimalistic FreeDOS install via 5 1/4 floppy on my new computer. No DOS text editors work on this machine, they all crash - including TED tiny editor. I suspect it could be something do with the keyboard. Please Do you work at the Smithsonian Institute that thing is an antique. And here I thought I had old hardware with a PII. Looks like `the speed of modern embedded systems. Has anyone tried Freedos in embedded hw? +-CWSIV+ --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Oracle Space Sweepstakes Want to be the first software developer in space? Enter now for the Oracle Space Sweepstakes! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7412alloc_id=16344op=click ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] Bootable DOS CD
I want to make my own bootable dos CD. My current attempts using K3b under Suse make bootable cd's but I can not then access the additional files. 1) What am I doing wrong? 2) Can I run both a cdrom on hdb and a cdrw on hdc with freedos and its drivers? The hard drive is on hda. -- +^+ | :::= ::: === === :::=== ::: ::: === | | ::: ::: === === ::: ::: ::: === | | === === === === = === === === | | === === === === == | | === == =====| +_+ --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Oracle Space Sweepstakes Want to be the first software developer in space? Enter now for the Oracle Space Sweepstakes! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7393alloc_id=16281op=click ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
