Re: [Freedos-kernel] FreeDOS kernel without any harddisk support.

2009-10-04 Thread Thomas Jansen
Paul, I have got this working with the 2038 kernel version. I modified as less as possible since the kernel size is not that important to me. Using minor modifications allows me to migrate to new kernels more easily. The problem was that I did not use UPX which was pointed out to me by an other m

Re: [Freedos-kernel] FreeDOS kernel without any harddisk support.

2009-10-04 Thread paulbblair
I have a need for the same feature, so I downloaded the 2039 build and made tweaks from there. I had no trouble with my combination of OW1.8 (DOS native), NASM 2.07 (DOS native), and UPX 3.04 (Win32). I also confirmed that I can compile and boot using other combinations, including TC2.01, Borlan

Re: [Freedos-kernel] FreeDOS kernel without any harddisk support.

2009-07-30 Thread Thomas Jansen, WTY Soft
Eric Auer wrote: > You can manipulate initdisk.c, in particular BIOS_nrdrives() and > the loops from 0 to nHardDisk to make FreeDOS ignore all your > harddisks. For compilation, you should have NASM, UPX and the > OpenWatcom C compiler. A tiny distro of the latter should be > on http://rugxulo.goog

Re: [Freedos-kernel] FreeDOS kernel without any harddisk support.

2009-07-28 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Thomas, > I'm building a freeware HDD disk wiper, checking and cloning application. > It runs fine with FreeDos except that I get some errors messages when a > disk is not partitioned. Since I'm not relying on any DOS calls for HDD > access and the nature of the program I would prefer the ker

[Freedos-kernel] FreeDOS kernel without any harddisk support.

2009-07-28 Thread Thomas Jansen, WTY Soft
Hi, I'm building a freeware HDD disk wiper, checking and cloning application. It runs fine with FreeDos except that I get some errors messages when a disk is not partitioned. Since I'm not relying on any DOS calls for HDD access and the nature of the program I would prefer the kernel would not