Re: [Freedos-user] Fwd: Networking question

2006-02-03 Thread Robert Riebisch
Michael Devore wrote: > A FreeDOS user e-mailed these questions to me, concerning a subject about > which I know very little. If someone who knows more could reply to him > with decent information, that would be great. Done. Robert Riebisch -- BTTR Software http://www.bttr-software.de/ -

[Freedos-user] TripleDOS / Sword

2006-02-03 Thread Florian Xaver
Hi! Maybe you know this multitasking system. I gave it a new homepage. http://www.drdos.org -> Programs Maybe someone see it and want to improve it... Btw: I am developing a new gadget for Sword: ListView (Lists). And this is much work ;-) If someone want to test it, please contact me! Tha

Re: [Freedos-user] re: Dual Boot WindowsXP and FreeDOS - Alpha testers needed

2006-02-03 Thread Johnson Lam
On Fri, 3 Feb 2006 04:16:39 +0100 (MET), you wrote: Hi, >And as Mark said, booting from and writing to non-harddisk >media is slow and in the case of CD even impossible... >Yeah well we could support CD-RW with UDF. Maybe ;-). Not really, quite fast. What can you expected from USB? >You are an

[Freedos-user] re: Dual Boot WindowsXP and FreeDOS - Alpha testers needed

2006-02-03 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Johnson, I did not intend to insult people, I just wanted to say "most people will not want to delete Windows if it came preinstalled with their PC" / "Most people do not download DOS to 'clean' their PC and remove Windows". I noticed that DOS / Win3 boots quite slow from USB (slow BIOS driver

Re: [Freedos-user] Dual Boot WindowsXP and FreeDOS - Alpha testers needed

2006-02-03 Thread David O'Shea
Hi Gerry, > Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 23:02:26 + > From: Gerry Hickman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > However, two recent changes to Windows networks have relegated FreeDOS > to the recycle bin: > > 1. LM authentication is no longer enabled once a corporation moves to > Windows Server 2003. No IT manager

Re: [Freedos-user] Dual Boot WindowsXP and FreeDOS - Alpha testers needed

2006-02-03 Thread Gerry Hickman
Hi Mark, just run your programs from there. Actually, unfortunately not for the ham radio applications I use at least. I need to be able to write to the hard disk while maintaining real-time performance for sending morse code, so...The USB sticks are too slow As you say, this sounds like a

Re: [Freedos-user] re: Dual Boot WindowsXP and FreeDOS - Alpha testers needed

2006-02-03 Thread Gerry Hickman
Eric Auer wrote: I noticed that DOS / Win3 boots quite slow from USB (slow BIOS drivers). Yes, there seems to be disparity among PC and data-stick vendors. I'd be interested to know what make/model/BIOS/stick you are seeing this slow behavior on? I've been testing Dell client/server GX270/

Re: [Freedos-user] re: Dual Boot WindowsXP and FreeDOS - Alpha testers needed

2006-02-03 Thread Johnson Lam
On Fri, 3 Feb 2006 12:24:28 +0100 (MET), you wrote: Hi Eric, >Hi Johnson, I did not intend to insult people, I just >wanted to say "most people will not want to delete Windows >if it came preinstalled with their PC" / "Most people do >not download DOS to 'clean' their PC and remove Windows". You

Re: [Freedos-user] Dual Boot WindowsXP and FreeDOS - Alpha testers needed

2006-02-03 Thread kd4d
-- Original message -- From: Gerry Hickman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hi Mark, > > > As you say, this sounds like a good reason to use a hard disk, although > I'm somewhat confused as to why it can't use the memory and disk caching > to achieve it's goal? Well, no

Re: [Freedos-user] re: Dual Boot WindowsXP and FreeDOS - Alpha testers needed

2006-02-03 Thread kd4d
-- Original message -- From: Johnson Lam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Fri, 3 Feb 2006 12:24:28 +0100 (MET), you wrote: > > For example, we may need to GHOST the whole > hard disk before we start, I believe that's rather small, after > compression it should be less tha

[Freedos-user] Linux Tools and FreeDOS Dual Boot LiveCD

2006-02-03 Thread kd4d
Hello, all: I have succeeded in creating a bootable CD containing Linux and FreeDOS. It turned out to be easy. This CD containts the two tools you need to dual-boot a Windows XP computer (gparted and fdisk) and the FreeDOS odin1440 boot floppy image (from odin.fdos.org - the 2005 version). Every

Re: [Freedos-user] Linux Tools and FreeDOS Dual Boot LiveCD

2006-02-03 Thread Ken Martwick
Hi Mark, This is something I would be interested in checking out, though I must say that I have no interest in Windows (XP or otherwise). Ken Martwick On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 03:24:44AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, all: > > I have succeeded in creating a bootable CD containing Li