Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Boot CD Question

2006-10-04 Thread Bernd Blaauw
TG schreef: > I feel like an idiot...I will crawl under a rock and die now. > hehe, no need at all. Traditional diskette emulation means you're stuck with a virtual diskette drive that's not only slow (cd-speed transfer rate and access time), but also read-only. Memdisk, a part of Syslinux fa

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Boot CD Question

2006-10-04 Thread TG
I feel like an idiot...I will crawl under a rock and die now. -T - Original Message - From: "Eric Auer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 5:17 AM Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Boot CD Question > >> Well, the secret to the re

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Boot CD Question

2006-10-04 Thread Lyrical Nanoha
On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, Johnson Lam wrote: > On Wed, 04 Oct 2006 11:10:25 -0300, you wrote: > >> Ber ramdisk is XMSDSK, it's very robust, 2Gbyte, free but no source. >> TDISK also works very well and I believe that it is part of FreeDOS > > I like Resizeable RAMDISK, GPL have source. More stable than

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Boot CD Question

2006-10-04 Thread Johnson Lam
On Wed, 04 Oct 2006 11:10:25 -0300, you wrote: >Ber ramdisk is XMSDSK, it's very robust, 2Gbyte, free but no source. >TDISK also works very well and I believe that it is part of FreeDOS I like Resizeable RAMDISK, GPL have source. More stable than XMSDSK, But I found little glitch, a single XMS

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Boot CD Question

2006-10-04 Thread Alain M.
GPLd as of version 2.09 and has some very good > features like being resizable and using EMS or XMS... > > -T > - Original Message - > From: "Blair Campbell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 11:37 PM > Subject: Re: [Freedos

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Boot CD Question

2006-10-04 Thread Blair Campbell
using EMS or XMS... > > -T > - Original Message - > From: "Blair Campbell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 11:37 PM > Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Boot CD Question > > > > ISOLinux is just a CD-ROM bootloader t

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Boot CD Question

2006-10-04 Thread Blair Campbell
on (ran from the CD) or via an advanced tab in the already > existing INSTALL program. > > > - Original Message - > From: "Lyrical Nanoha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 11:46 PM > Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Boo

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Boot CD Question

2006-10-04 Thread Eric Auer
> Well, the secret to the read only image would be to create a ram disk and > set temp there, copy a few files. Microsoft uses RAMDISK. This would allow > the creation of temporary files as well as provide a storage for frequently > accessed DOS commands, since CD is slower than RAM. I did some se

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Boot CD Question

2006-10-04 Thread Eric Auer
> I'm looking from a marketing perspective. ISOLINUX throws Linux out there to Isolinux does not contain any Linux at all. > the enduser even though the result is FreeDOS on the machine. I think that a > FreeDOS install CD should boot with FreeDOS, if the hardware is capable, > jump into a 256 c

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Boot CD Question

2006-10-03 Thread Tony
- Original Message - From: "Lyrical Nanoha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 1:44 AM Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Boot CD Question > On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, Tony wrote: > >> Would boot floppy emulation (used on Windows 95/98) be eas

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Boot CD Question

2006-10-03 Thread Tony
: Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 11:37 PM Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Boot CD Question > ISOLinux is just a CD-ROM bootloader that actually allows booting from > CD-ROM. All of the actual loadup stuff is done in FreeDOS. The NERO > booting feature (IIRC) makes the boot ima

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Boot CD Question

2006-10-03 Thread Lyrical Nanoha
On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, Tony wrote: > Would boot floppy emulation (used on Windows 95/98) be easier to implement? > I'm looking from a marketing perspective. ISOLINUX throws Linux out there to > the enduser even though the result is FreeDOS on the machine. I think that a > FreeDOS install CD should bo

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Boot CD Question

2006-10-03 Thread Tony
r 03, 2006 11:46 PM Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Boot CD Question > On Tue, 3 Oct 2006, Tony wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Now I know most of us have a Windows machine with a legitimate copy of >> Nero or maybe even a freeware ISO making utility so I was wonderi

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Boot CD Question

2006-10-03 Thread Blair Campbell
360kb On 10/3/06, Lyrical Nanoha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 3 Oct 2006, Tony wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > Now I know most of us have a Windows machine with a legitimate copy of > > Nero or maybe even a freeware ISO making utility so I was wondering... > > > > Why hasn't anyone made a boo

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Boot CD Question

2006-10-03 Thread Lyrical Nanoha
On Tue, 3 Oct 2006, Tony wrote: > Hi all, > > Now I know most of us have a Windows machine with a legitimate copy of > Nero or maybe even a freeware ISO making utility so I was wondering... > > Why hasn't anyone made a boot CD that boots using FreeDOS instead of > ISOLINUX? > > Don't get me wron

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Boot CD Question

2006-10-03 Thread Blair Campbell
ISOLinux is just a CD-ROM bootloader that actually allows booting from CD-ROM. All of the actual loadup stuff is done in FreeDOS. The NERO booting feature (IIRC) makes the boot image read-only and does not copy it into memory like ISOLinux does. For the boot process to work, however, the boot im

[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS Boot CD Question

2006-10-03 Thread Tony
Hi all,   Now I know most of us have a Windows machine with a legitimate copy of Nero or maybe even a freeware ISO making utility so I was wondering...   Why hasn't anyone made a boot CD that boots using FreeDOS instead of ISOLINUX?   Don't get me wrong, I like ISOLINUX just fine, but in ret