Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS installed, but partition not bootable

2010-01-26 Thread Chris
Confession time... it appears that the boot manager wasn't able to read the FreeDOS partition because I set it to look at a non-existent HD for it. And it was only after accidentally deleting and recreating the MBR I figured out what I'd done! Now that I've got it looking in the right place

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS installed, but partition not bootable

2010-01-26 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 26-1-2010 22:58, Alain Mouette schreef: > The boot sector is installed with the command: > SYS C: > > but BE CAREFULL!! that c: is the FreeDOS partition... > > Alain > > Chris escreveu: > >> active, and has both fdconfig.sys in the root directory and kernal.sys >> in the \fdos dir, so it

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS installed, but partition not bootable

2010-01-26 Thread Alain Mouette
The boot sector is installed with the command: SYS C: but BE CAREFULL!! that c: is the FreeDOS partition... Alain Chris escreveu: > I've recently installed FreeDOS to a new partition on my Toshiba Tecra > 2300 laptop, but there were a couple of hitches along the way. > > First issue was t

Re: [Freedos-user] bzip2 for FreeDOS.

2010-01-26 Thread Robert Riebisch
4625 wrote: >> How ? "slowo.tar.bz2" is not a valid filename under FreeDOS. ;-) Do >> you use DOS ? > > I have use FreeDOS with doslfn. 1) Replace 'fake' cwsdpmi.exe with the one from http://clio.rice.edu/djgpp/ or http://clio.rice.edu/djgpp/beta/ (R5 or later) 2) Do a clean boot w/o any drivers

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS installed, but partition not bootable

2010-01-26 Thread Chris
I've recently installed FreeDOS to a new partition on my Toshiba Tecra 2300 laptop, but there were a couple of hitches along the way. First issue was the Live CD failing to boot. Isolinux gives an config file error and defaults to command prompt. I'm pretty sure it's not a bad burn or any

Re: [Freedos-user] book

2010-01-26 Thread Mateusz Viste
On Tuesday 26 January 2010 09:44 (CET), dos386 wrote: > Do you have a well working solution to view PDF's under FreeDOS ? > OOps, I don't have MS-DOG7 at all ;-) You could check out this one: http://www.viste-family.net/mateusz/dos/en/dospdf.htm Best regards, Mateusz Viste -- You'll find my publ

Re: [Freedos-user] bzip2 for FreeDOS.

2010-01-26 Thread 4625
26-Jan-2010 числа в 00:40 часов, dos386 написал(а) следующее: > > slowo.tar.bz2 file on RAM disk. > > How ? "slowo.tar.bz2" is not a valid filename under FreeDOS. ;-) Do > you use DOS ? I have use FreeDOS with doslfn. > > A filename issue would produce "No such file or directory > > (ENOENT)".

Re: [Freedos-user] book

2010-01-26 Thread Fabio Viola
Il 26/01/2010 09:44, dos386 ha scritto: >>> First steps towards system programming under MS-DOS7. >>> http://www.multiboot.ru/FrstStps.pdf > > Do you have a well working solution to view PDF's under FreeDOS ? > OOps, I don't have MS-DOG7 at all ;-) > Ghostscript? Regards, Fabio -

Re: [Freedos-user] book

2010-01-26 Thread dos386
> > First steps towards system programming under MS-DOS7. > > http://www.multiboot.ru/FrstStps.pdf Do you have a well working solution to view PDF's under FreeDOS ? OOps, I don't have MS-DOG7 at all ;-) -- ~~~ wow ~~~ ---

Re: [Freedos-user] bzip2 for FreeDOS.

2010-01-26 Thread dos386
> slowo.tar.bz2 file on RAM disk. How ? "slowo.tar.bz2" is not a valid filename under FreeDOS. ;-) Do you use DOS ? > A filename issue would produce "No such file or directory (ENOENT)". Usually, but not necessarily ... > The same problem with `slowo.bz2' file name. Then the archive is corrupt