Re: [Freedos-user] Compatibility EMM386/HIMEM 2.25 New Release

2006-08-21 Thread tom ehlert
Hello Norbert, But there are still some systems, where the machine completely stops responding when initializing the network. some network clients don't work if loaded into UMB memory; they also don't work with MSDOS emm386 So, for your testing I applied for a fully functional test version

Re: [Freedos-user] Compatibility EMM386/HIMEM 2.25 New Release

2006-08-21 Thread Norbert Remmel
But there are still some systems, where the machine completely stops responding when initializing the network. some network clients don't work if loaded into UMB memory; they also don't work with MSDOS emm386 The network client isn't loaded high at all. And if you use umbpci everything works

[Freedos-user] corrupted directory sector from using SMARTDRV 6.22 with FreeDOS?

2006-08-21 Thread saywhat
This problem occurs when using SMARTDRV.EXE (with write caching enabled) from MSDOS 6.22 with FreeDOS. Replacing either avoids the problem. I haven't pinned it down yet but the problem seems to occur with more than just one pgm. I've seen it when installing UKA17X2 (i.e. UKA_PPP),

Re: [Freedos-user] Compatibility EMM386/HIMEM 2.25 New Release

2006-08-21 Thread tom ehlert
Hello Norbert, But there are still some systems, where the machine completely stops responding when initializing the network. some network clients don't work if loaded into UMB memory; they also don't work with MSDOS emm386 The network client isn't loaded high at all. And if you use umbpci

Re: [Freedos-user] Results of testing fdbasecd.iso dated 08/19/2006

2006-08-21 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 19-Авг-2006 21:31 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: sn h) Boot from first harddisk (0x80) sn I fell into this because of the timeout. The next two lines on the sn screen are: sn Booting from local disk... sn Virus!!! This may be

Re: [Freedos-user] Compatibility EMM386/HIMEM 2.25 New Release

2006-08-21 Thread Norbert Remmel
Hi all, But there are still some systems, where the machine completely stops responding when initializing the network. some network clients don't work if loaded into UMB memory; they also don't work with MSDOS emm386 The network client isn't loaded high at all. And if you use umbpci

Re: [Freedos-user] corrupted directory sector from using SMARTDRV 6.22 with FreeDOS?

2006-08-21 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hi Eddie, 2006/8/21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This problem occurs when using SMARTDRV.EXE (with write caching enabled) from MSDOS 6.22 with FreeDOS. Replacing either avoids the problem. Well, thanks indeed for the reports, perhaps you could tell us too if you're using

Re: [Freedos-user] Compatibility EMM386/HIMEM 2.25 New Release

2006-08-21 Thread Andre Tertling
Norbert Remmel schrieb: You should also be prepared to send/sponsor this network card to Michael I really would like to do but my boss would cut my head off if I would do so as you surely can imagine ;-) That's just another way to solve the problem :D SCNR ;) Best regards, Andre

Re: [Freedos-user] Compatibility EMM386/HIMEM 2.25 New Release

2006-08-21 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 21-Авг-2006 18:08 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andre Tertling) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: You should also be prepared to send/sponsor this network card to I really would like to do but my boss would cut my head off if I would AT That's just another way to solve the problem :D AT

Re: [Freedos-user] Compatibility EMM386/HIMEM 2.25 New Release

2006-08-21 Thread Norbert Remmel
You should also be prepared to send/sponsor this network card to I really would like to do but my boss would cut my head off if I would AT That's just another way to solve the problem :D AT SCNR ;) What is SCNR? Don't know either. But he is right... Cutting my head off would really

Re: [Freedos-user] Compatibility EMM386/HIMEM 2.25 New Release

2006-08-21 Thread Michael Devore
At 06:50 PM 8/21/2006 +0200, Norbert Remmel wrote: You should also be prepared to send/sponsor this network card to I really would like to do but my boss would cut my head off if I would AT That's just another way to solve the problem :D AT SCNR ;) What is SCNR? Don't know

Re: [Freedos-user] corrupted directory sector from using SMARTDRV 6.22 with FreeDOS?

2006-08-21 Thread Michael Devore
At 05:15 AM 8/21/2006 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This problem occurs when using SMARTDRV.EXE (with write caching enabled) from MSDOS 6.22 with FreeDOS. Replacing either avoids the problem. SMARTDRV is pretty particular on some machines. I just pulled the following from the Microsoft

Re: [Freedos-user] Compatibility EMM386/HIMEM 2.25 New Release

2006-08-21 Thread Michael Devore
At 09:37 AM 8/21/2006 +0200, Norbert Remmel wrote: During testing I discovered a bug concerning STR-ALT-DEL usage. When pressing these keys, freedos crashes with invalid opcode outputting some memory addresses and registers. As I remember this wasn't like this using earlier versions of

[Freedos-user] Bad or non existant command interpreter

2006-08-21 Thread Chris Monahan
hey - I hear this is the place I've installed FreeDOS on the first 250MB partition of my hard drive, it works in dosemu, and I can run Free COM in Windowsbut when I try to boot to it from LILO it passes over to the kernel (I think) and tells me :Bad or non existant command interpreterenter full

Re: [Freedos-user] Results of testing fdbasecd.iso dated...

2006-08-21 Thread saywhat
Arkady V.Belousov wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: sn h) Boot from first harddisk (0x80) sn I fell into this because of the timeout. The next two lines on the sn screen are: sn Booting from local disk... sn Virus!!! This may be message from BIOS (if there is turned on

Re: [Freedos-user] Results of testing fdbasecd.iso dated...

2006-08-21 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 21-Авг-2006 14:07 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: sn Editorial comment: snObviously, some of these results are not ideal. What you want from FreeDOS in given case? snWhat do *I* want? Nothing. I'm just testing the release CD

Re: [Freedos-user] Bad or non existant command interpreter

2006-08-21 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 21-Авг-2006 21:21 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Monahan) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: CM I've installed FreeDOS on the first 250MB partition of my hard drive, it CM works in dosemu, CM and I can run Free COM in Windows CM but when I try to boot to it from LILO it passes over to

Re: [Freedos-user] Compatibility EMM386/HIMEM 2.25 New Release

2006-08-21 Thread Michael Devore
At 09:37 AM 8/21/2006 +0200, Norbert Remmel wrote: During testing I discovered a bug concerning STR-ALT-DEL usage. When pressing these keys, freedos crashes with invalid opcode outputting some memory addresses and registers. Eric made a change suggestion which seems to clear up the problem with

Re: [Freedos-user] corrupted directory sector from using SMARTDRV 6.22 with FreeDOS?

2006-08-21 Thread Michael Devore
At 02:50 PM 8/21/2006 -0600, Eddie wrote: I was really hoping that this problem had been silently fixed by all of the other work that has been done recently. I was disappointed when the same problem cropped up again - because that means more work. So far I haven't done the work to isolate