[Freedos-user] ctorrent-ng Port Now Available

2008-01-26 Thread Blair Campbell
Now available are: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/user/torrents.zip (source) http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/user/torrentx.zip (binary) which are untested DJGPP ports of ctorrent-ng. IOW, users MAY be able to use this to utilize BitTorrent

[Freedos-user] Fresh ClamAV/DJGPP Port

2008-01-26 Thread Blair Campbell
I have just uploaded to ibiblio: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/system/clamavs.zip (source) http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/system/clamavx.zip (binary) which contains a DOS port of ClamAV 0.92. Unlike previous ports, this one contains four

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.0 (was Network sharing)

2008-01-26 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Ron, > The only dangerous tool from a LiveCD... > is Fdisk as it can change/ruin > the master boot record (MBR), which contains information > about your harddisk layout... ... > Format ought to do a number on you also Well Bernd meant you can only format drives which have a drive letter in DO

Re: [Freedos-user] fd work

2008-01-26 Thread Mateusz Viste
On Saturday 26 January 2008 18:35, Bernd Blaauw wrote: > I'm quite interested to see this FDUPDATE in action. I've always dreamed > about using a single floppydisk and booting it, and then pulling in the > installation ISO image from a network server or the internet. Then FDUPDATE is definetely wh

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.0 (was Network sharing)

2008-01-26 Thread Ron Spruell
The only dangerous tool from a LiveCD (CD which boots FreeDOS from a fake diskette, then loads CDROM drivers to get access to the remainder of the CD/DVD beyond the initial 1.44MB) is Fdisk as it can change/ruin the master boot record (MBR), which contains information about your harddisk layo

Re: [Freedos-user] Ethernet card - how to install in Freedos

2008-01-26 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Eric Auer schreef: > To find out which packet driver you need, you can use PCISLEEP > (if it is not part of your FreeDOS install, just search the web) > to get a list of PCI / AGP / PCIe / onboard-PCI devices in your > PC. Look at the devices in the "network" category. You can search > the web for

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.0 (was Network sharing)

2008-01-26 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Ron Spruell schreef: > Jim I understand what you mean by a virtual machine because I know what > virtual memory is as per Microsoft but for me making a virtual would be just > as hard as making Free Dos run. I would much rather be able to run FreeDos > A virtual machine as ment here is often als

Re: [Freedos-user] fdapm speed# not working for me

2008-01-26 Thread Fabien Meghazi
> So far, only two things worked for me: > - using the "throttle" tool (http://www.oldskool.org/pc/throttle/DOS), > - disabling my processor's cache (there's a CPUCACHE program somewhere... just > google after it... or disable your cache right in the BIOS). I already tried throttle and it didn't w

Re: [Freedos-user] fdapm speed# not working for me

2008-01-26 Thread Mateusz Viste
On Saturday 26 January 2008, Fabien Meghazi wrote: > So I played a little with fdapm speed<1-8> and it just have no effect > ! Or if there's an effect, it's unnoticeable. So far, only two things worked for me: - using the "throttle" tool (http://www.oldskool.org/pc/throttle/DOS), - disabling my p

[Freedos-user] fdapm speed# not working for me

2008-01-26 Thread Fabien Meghazi
Hi all, I would like to know what could be the reasons why fdapm speed# won't work for me ? Is it a bios problem ? Should I change something in bios settings ? I really need to slow down my cpu for some old softwares, and I first tried software based cpu killer (residents) such as moslo, ... but