Re: [Freedos-user] Boot floppy image files
On Wed, 2012-09-26 at 17:22 -0500, Jim Hall wrote: The boot image I found didn't have CDROM drivers, but added them. I could just make an ISO of the floppies I ended up making, if you like. Rich... > On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 1:11 AM, nospam wrote: > > Rugxulo has made a single floppy FreeDOS image called BARE_DOS that works > > well: > > https://sites.google.com/site/rugxulo/ > > > > Georg > > > FYI: I've also mirrored Rugxulo's BARE_DOS to > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/unofficial/bare_dos/ > > I don't use a floppy drive anymore, so I can't say how well this > works. Georg thinks it works well. If others think this is a good > FreeDOS floppy "mini-distro", I'll link to it from the Downloads page > on www.freedos.org. > > -jh > > -- > How fast is your code? > 3 out of 4 devs don\\\'t know how their code performs in production. > Find out how slow your code is with AppDynamics Lite. > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;262219672;13503038;z? > http://info.appdynamics.com/FreeJavaPerformanceDownload.html > ___ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- How fast is your code? 3 out of 4 devs don\\\'t know how their code performs in production. Find out how slow your code is with AppDynamics Lite. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;262219672;13503038;z? http://info.appdynamics.com/FreeJavaPerformanceDownload.html ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] false info on the freedos home page?
I think what you're all forgetting is that Apple developed all of this technology, and will be suing all parties involved, very soon. :-) Rich... -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Boot Disc
On Tue, 2012-09-18 at 21:19 +0200, Mateusz Viste wrote: > Maybe it would be a good idea to take one of these, and put a link right > on the FreeDOS website, in the download section at > http://www.freedos.org/download/ with a little note 'if you need to > bring alive an old and rusty pc with only a floppy drive onboard, take > this 1.44M bootable image' ? > > Even if it's only for 0.0001% of the user base, it's still nice.. plus, > the fact that there would a floppy image available for download is also > a message 'FreeDOS cares about old systems'. > > just my $0.03. :) > > Mateusz Exactly my point. Thank you. -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Boot Disc
On Tue, 2012-09-18 at 14:11 -0500, Rugxulo wrote: Then link to the sites that have reliable boot images this way people don't have to spend too much time looking. Rich... > Hi, > > On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Ricardus Vincente > wrote: > > > > Would someone please remind me about why there isn't a boot floppy > > image in the FreeDOS web site that actually has FreeDOS on it? Seems > > like it would be a really easy thing to do, and for that small > > percentage of people who want to bring life to an old machine that can't > > boot from CD, it would be super helpful. > > 1). Most people don't use floppies anymore. Either their machines lack > the drive or they lack floppy disks or their favorite OS doesn't > support USB floppy drives or they prefer booting CD-R (EDIT: why > didn't you try Smart Boot Manager???) or USB drives or they can't be > bothered or > > 2). "Really easy" ... sure, but keeping it up-to-date is a bit more > tedious, esp. for little gain. It's really easy to whip up something > crappy, a bit harder to do it right where it covers everything > (various floppy sizes, cpus, RAM requirements, peripherals, docs, > sources, etc). > > 3). "Small percentage" ... literally almost nobody has complained so > far! Keep in mind that volunteers are extremely low, which is why it > took so long for FD 1.1 to come out (thanks, Bernd!). Most of us > prefer contributing to other things. > > 4). There ARE floppy images, as mentioned, just slightly moldy. Most > of us make do with old stuff and manually install. :o) > > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/unofficial/balder/balder10.img > > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/unofficial/odin/odin060/fdodin06.8088.zip > > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/unofficial/floppy/img/base/install.img > > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.0/fdboot.img > > https://sites.google.com/site/rugxulo/BARE_DOS.ZIP?attredirects=0 > > -- > Live Security Virtual Conference > Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and > threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions > will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware > threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ > ___ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] FreeDOS Boot Disc
OK, a friend had a box of new, still sealed floppies, and I was successful making a boot disc. http://imagebin.org/228865 I am an official idiot because I forgot that I had another old machine laying around with a 3.5 inch floppy on it. The power supply has some bad capacitors, and it's really flaky (sometimes it just reboots all on its own!), so I wrote it off a few years ago, but I tried it, and it booted. I don't think this is actually booting FreeDOS though, I think it is a version of MSDOS because I had to name the files config.sys and autoexec.bat for them to be recognized. Either way, it saw BOTH CD drives in the machine. So now I should be able to resurrect that older Pentium 90 box that I have in storage. Would someone please remind me about why there isn't a boot floppy image in the FreeDOS web site that actually has FreeDOS on it? Seems like it would be a really easy thing to do, and for that small percentage of people who want to bring life to an old machine that can't boot from CD, it would be super helpful. Rich... -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Boot floppy image files
On Sun, 2012-09-16 at 23:59 +, "Jose Antonio Senna" wrote: > > While I understand that FreeDOS is a modern DOS not meant just for > >older hardware, I thought that one of the purposes for FreeDOS was to > >make older hardware relevant again. From the looks of it, I can't see > >any reasonable way to get FreeDOS working on an old machine that has no > >OS currently on it. > > How are you going to write the image(s) to a floppy ? > > Regards > JAS I have several friends with USB 3.5 inch drives. So they will make me a Floppy and mail it to me. So weird that I have to use Snail Mail to get a way to boot my old pentium machine! BTW, I think these images will do: http://www.fdos.org/bootdisks/ Rich... -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Boot floppy image files
On Sun, 2012-09-16 at 22:39 +0200, Eric Auer wrote: Thanks! Wow. I imagined that it would be a little easier than this. While I understand that FreeDOS is a modern DOS not meant just for older hardware, I thought that one of the purposes for FreeDOS was to make older hardware relevant again. From the looks of it, I can't see any reasonable way to get FreeDOS working on an old machine that has no OS currently on it. Rich... > Hi Ricardus, > > Am 16.09.2012 21:56, schrieb Ricardus Vincente: > > I have looked around the FreeDOS web page and can't find them. I am > > looking to resurrect an old Zeos Pentium 90 that I have, but it won't > > boot from CD (its not a BIOS option), and it has no OS on it right now, > > so I am going to need to boot it from 3.5 floppy. > > > > Are there any official IMG files that I can create a boot floppy from? > > While it is not official, I really like the idea of > Rugxulo's RUFFIDEA distro. It packs most BASE programs > > as listed here www.freedos.org/software/?cat=base and > dozens of other small, free, often open source, goodies > on just three floppy disks. The sources are on separate > downloads which are significantly larger, ca 5-8 MB for > each floppy image. Not totally up to date, Rugxulo will > be happy to post his wish-list, but definitely one of > the best things you can do with 3 floppies! :-) Maybe > somebody wants to help updating it? > > https://sites.google.com/site/rugxulo/ > > The page also has a minimal one floppy boot floppy, in > style of the old (former?) fdos.org daily build disks. > > >From my own experience, the OLD FreeDOS 1.0 "Brezel" > floppy distro experiment, two disks is an appropriate > amount of space for all BASE binaries, basic docs as > the HTMLHELP (which works even while zipped) and some > small pile of other goodies. The third disk of Brezel > was just a big zip with the doc/ directory wrapped up. > As a German-friendly distro, Brezel also contained a > German HTMLHELP and FreeCOM and localization things. > > If you were to omit all text files and maybe drop a > few lesser-used apps, you CAN manage with one floppy > of running FreeDOS where MS DOS took 3 install disks > and probably more when you installed to floppies :-) > > But as said, between two and four disks of FreeDOS > are just so much more fun than doing with just one. > > Best, Eric :-) > > > > -- > Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. > Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics > Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;258768047;13503038;j? > http://info.appdynamics.com/FreeJavaPerformanceDownload.html > ___ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;258768047;13503038;j? http://info.appdynamics.com/FreeJavaPerformanceDownload.html ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
[Freedos-user] Boot floppy image files
I have looked around the FreeDOS web page and can't find them. I am looking to resurrect an old Zeos Pentium 90 that I have, but it won't boot from CD (its not a BIOS option), and it has no OS on it right now, so I am going to need to boot it from 3.5 floppy. Are there any official IMG files that I can create a boot floppy from? -- Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;258768047;13503038;j? http://info.appdynamics.com/FreeJavaPerformanceDownload.html ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
