I think that MSFN has some great support for Win98 - I followed it for
some time a few years back and there are quite a few dedicated
volunteers there who had included USB 2.0 drivers, perfected the various
security updates etc. Plenty of debate there as to the legality of the
unofficial upgrades,
On 2012-12-19 10:37 (GMT-0800) peasth...@shaw.ca composed:
> From: Rugxulo
>> FDISK creates at least one partition (primary, active, FAT, presumably
>> bootable) for DOS. (This is written into the partition table, ...
> OK. If it damages the table in the process, there will be
> a problem acces
On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 11:14 PM, Michael Robinson
wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-12-20 at 03:32 +, dos386 wrote:
>> > I'm not even sure there's a reason to have FreeDOS in the mix.
>>
>> Sure there is, especially if your 98 copy isn't legal.
>
> My copy is sort of legal, but I don't have as many licen
On Thu, 2012-12-20 at 03:32 +, dos386 wrote:
> > I'm not even sure there's a reason to have FreeDOS in the mix.
>
> Sure there is, especially if your 98 copy isn't legal.
My copy is sort of legal, but I don't have as many licenses for it
as I have computers running it. The computer I'm runni
> I'm not even sure there's a reason to have FreeDOS in the mix.
Sure there is, especially if your 98 copy isn't legal.
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> [Freedos-user] Windows 98SE screwing up Freedos 1.1
Worx for me with METAKERN.
> Is there a simple way to repair the freedos installation so
> that Windows and Freedos can happily coexist?
YES. Backup Windaube98 BS, fix FreeDOS, backup FreeDOS BS,
set up METAKERN with those 2 BS's.
> Looks li
Rugxulo,
From: Rugxulo
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 16:31:31 -0600
> Do you also have a working floppy drive? Working CD drive?
Both. I had hoped to use the CD made from file fd11src.iso
to install FreeDOS. Isn't that the recommended procedure?
> FDISK creates at least one partition (primary,
On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Chris Evans wrote:
> why install win98?if the computer is specd for it, install freedos, and
> then install ubuntu and dual boot
> between the two. and use wine for windows stuff.
Because the intent is to play games that are native for Windows. If
the box w
Hi,
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 6:04 PM, wrote:
>
> 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 di
Hi,
On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 12:45 AM, Michael Robinson
wrote:
> First I installed Freedos 1.1 and used the 4x4 NEC cdrom, only the
> first slot seemed to work, to copy over the Windows 98SE cabinet files.
> I then proceeded to boot from the 98se cdrom and run setup from the
> directory with the c
why install win98?if the computer is specd for it, install freedos, and
then install ubuntu and dual boot between
the two. and use wine for windows stuff.
On Dec 19, 2012, at 1:36 PM, kurt godel wrote:
> The grub4dos approach is the best, since you can boot anything with it; if
> tha
The grub4dos approach is the best, since you can boot anything with it; if
that doesn't appeal to you,
I would say install the 98 first, as it was designed to commandeer the
entire works; the freedos stuff can be copied to the c drive *after an
initial installation/backup of the freedos, which is s
On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 1:45 AM, Michael Robinson
wrote:
> First I installed Freedos 1.1 and used the 4x4 NEC cdrom, only the
> first slot seemed to work, to copy over the Windows 98SE cabinet files.
> I then proceeded to boot from the 98se cdrom and run setup from the
> directory with the cab fil
Op 19-12-2012 15:19, Michael B. Brutman schreef:
>
> mTCP sounds right. ; - 0
Speaking of networking, does anyone know which modern cards are
compatible with both of the following?
1) packet driver
2) iPXE
A universal UNDI driver would also do miracles. I've got a closed source
binary of the di
Op 19-12-2012 7:45, Michael Robinson schreef:
> like freedos command.com got renamed to command.dos and I've already
> renamed autoexec.bat to fdauto.bat, but fdconfig.sys seems to be
I think the files get renamed to *.DOS
(AUTOEXEC.DOS/CONFIG.DOS/COMMAND.DOS/MSDOS.DOS/IO.DOS) or a few of them
to
mTCP sounds right. ; - 0
The latest versions are at Google Code: https://code.google.com/p/mtcp/
. It gets updated more frequently than FreeDOS does, hence the spamming
the mailing list.
The next version so far has mostly IRCjr fixes and improvements. I'm
also looking into making it more com
On Monday, December 17, 2012, wrote:
> 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 containi
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