Re: [Freedos-user] Only getting freedos text at boot when creating bootable USB

2012-12-17 Thread Mark Brown
yeah, rufus works when all that other stuff fails, i've tried it, and i know. at least with rufus.akeo.ie  rufus you get a fail-proof setup. others are hit-and miss.   eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com

Re: [Freedos-user] Only getting freedos text at boot when creating bootable USB

2012-12-17 Thread esc...@front.ru
rufus may be a good solution, but given that it runs on windows only, it's definitely not a silver bullet. Mark Brown eufdp...@yahoo.com wrote: yeah, rufus works when all that other stuff fails, i've tried it, and i know. at least with rufus.akeo.ie  rufus you get a fail-proof setup. others

Re: [Freedos-user] Only getting freedos text at boot when creating bootable USB

2012-12-17 Thread Tom Ehlert
rufus may be a good solution, but given that it runs on windows only, it's definitely not a silver bullet. sure. but given that it's the only bullet ... Tom -- LogMeIn Rescue: Anywhere, Anytime Remote support for

[Freedos-user] Fwd: FreeDOS has an error with it's DEVICE= line in CONFIG.SYS

2012-12-17 Thread Rugxulo
Small bug report (and several comments) on news://comp.os.msdos.programmer , if anyone is curious. https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/comp.os.msdos.programmer/mxAPSdUML7U I pasted this DEVICE= line from my MS-DOS CONFIG.SYS into FreeDOS' CONFIG.SYS

[Freedos-user] Another possible ambiguity of target; a drive part not acceptable to the installer.

2012-12-17 Thread peasthope
Given a drive partitioned with fdisk in Debian Linux. The first part is labelled type 6 and I want to install FreeDOS there. The FreeDOS 1.1 CD installer complains and wants to format the disk. Does it really want to format the whole disk containing 4 parts? Does it intend to format only

[Freedos-user] What about scsi???

2012-12-17 Thread Michael C. Robinson
I have a 4G scsi hard drive connect to an LSI Logic low profile scsi card. I'm trying to install freedos 1.1 from a floppy disk. Are there scsi drivers I can add to the disk? -- LogMeIn Rescue: Anywhere, Anytime

Re: [Freedos-user] What about scsi???

2012-12-17 Thread Michael B. Brutman
Does the SCSI card have an onboard BIOS? If so, it should provide BIOS level access to hard drives using INT 13h. You should not need device drivers to access that function. Windows wants device drivers for additional device support and performance. FreeDOS is just fine with BIOS level

Re: [Freedos-user] What about scsi???

2012-12-17 Thread Felix Miata
On 2012-12-17 20:12 (GMT-0800) Michael C. Robinson composed: I have a 4G scsi hard drive connect to an LSI Logic low profile scsi card. I'm trying to install freedos 1.1 from a floppy disk. Are there scsi drivers I can add to the disk? Most such PCI cards likely you won't need one if you

Re: [Freedos-user] What about scsi???

2012-12-17 Thread Michael C. Robinson
The scsi card appears to be 53C1010-66 LsiLogic where I have a Compaq 4.3 gig scsi drive connected to it. The scsi drive has no partitions on it, but I successfully low level formatted it. I searched via google and tried a copy of symdisk.sys and aspi8xx.sys, but the hard drive doesn't

Re: [Freedos-user] What about scsi???

2012-12-17 Thread Felix Miata
On 2012-12-17 22:43 (GMT-0800) Michael C. Robinson composed: The scsi card appears to be 53C1010-66 LsiLogic where I have a Compaq 4.3 gig scsi drive connected to it. According to LSI's web site the product doesn't seem to exist, but according to