Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on the Ultimate Boot Cd

2005-07-09 Thread Florian Xaver
I tried to download the 3.3 .ISO but couldn't find it, could you? Maybe you have to download the zip file? btw: I have only 8k internet access at home, i have to wait until i am at the university (in 1 or two weeks). Bye, Flo -- Unofficial Dr-DOS page http://www.drdos.org

[Freedos-user] re: FreeDOS kicks some serious Ass!

2005-07-09 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, to get plain boot disks (the ones on the ISO image download area are indeed meant only as helpers with the install-from-CD-ROM process) you should try ODIN or the bootdisks on fdos.org (fdos.org/kernel/ also has the newest kernel and shell versions, but avoid the 386-optimized and

[Freedos-user] re: DEVLOAD / ramdisk troubles - or kernel problems?

2005-07-09 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Bernd... Hi, I got some strange problems with DEVLOAD: If I use it to load any of my ramdisks, FreeDOS becomes unable to cd .. or cd \... Which kernel, shell, himem and emm386 versions, Newest himem / emm386 and two of the 2035* kernels tested... contents of config.sys and

[Freedos-user] re: DEVLOAD / ramdisk troubles - or kernel problems?

2005-07-09 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, as the KERNEL.dbgdev from fdos.org/kernel works for me in DOSEmu, I could do some DEVLOAD CD .. problem debugging: Unfortunately the debug output is very verbose and multi-line, so I replaced media_check: no change by MC:ok and replaced get_near_f_node and got near fnode by getfnode and got:

[Freedos-user] announce: devload 3.14

2005-07-09 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, I have updated DEVLOAD: http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~eric/stuff/soft/by-others/devload-3.14.zip This version now initializes the block device unit count in the device header. Most drivers do this themselves already, but as the DOS kernel has the feature of copying the value returned by the

Re: [Freedos-user] problems with OpenWatcom debugger + FreeCOM + Win98

2005-07-09 Thread Brolin
Michael Devore wrote: WD is plain old goofy. It has had a slightly unstable reputation under DOS for over ten years. You could be seeing nothing more than the OS memory image having different byte values at a particular location(s), or slightly varied free memory values, or an internal

Re: [Freedos-user] problems with OpenWatcom debugger + FreeCOM + Win98

2005-07-09 Thread Michael Devore
At 03:29 PM 7/9/2005 -0800, Brolin wrote: Michael Devore wrote: WD is plain old goofy. It has had a slightly unstable reputation under DOS for over ten years. You could be seeing nothing more than the OS memory image having different byte values at a particular location(s), or slightly

Re: [Freedos-user] problems with OpenWatcom debugger + FreeCOM + Win98

2005-07-09 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Brolin schreef: I think maybe you misunderstood what I said. I can't test with and without HIMEM and EMM386 because the problems with WD only occur when using FreeCOM (not FreeDOS, i.e. the kernel) on Win98. There are no problems when using any of the following combinations: - Microsoft

Re: [Freedos-user] re: DEVLOAD / ramdisk troubles - or kernel problems?

2005-07-09 Thread Johnson Lam
On Sat, 9 Jul 2005 18:11:53 +0200 (MEST), you wrote: Hi Eric, Sorry for skipping all the text, your personal style a bit too long. As I know TDSK easily causing hang up or crash if the size is too large. So I've change to SRDISK, I've use this over 6 years, very stable. And I'm sure FreeDOS