Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 Preview 11

2016-02-02 Thread Jerome E. Shidel Jr.
> On Feb 2, 2016, at 7:54 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > > > Hi! > >>> Well that is still serious. Even if you do something as harmless as >>> >>> copy STUFF SOMEWHERE | more >>> >>> you would still end up 1. not seeing the output of "copy" and >>> possibly even 2. block the "copy" process by stalli

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 Preview 11

2016-02-02 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! >> Well that is still serious. Even if you do something as harmless as >> >> copy STUFF SOMEWHERE | more >> >> you would still end up 1. not seeing the output of "copy" and >> possibly even 2. block the "copy" process by stalling the pipe. >> >> In short, please use a ramdisk for all your pip

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 Preview 11

2016-02-02 Thread Jerome E. Shidel Jr.
> On Feb 2, 2016, at 12:17 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > > > Hi! > >>> Wait, that is pretty serious! Only really important cache errors beep: > > ... > >> Hopefully, it is just from attempted writing of temp files to the locked USB >> stick. > > Well that is still serious. Even if you do somethin

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 Preview 11

2016-02-02 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! >> Wait, that is pretty serious! Only really important cache errors beep: ... > Hopefully, it is just from attempted writing of temp files to the locked USB > stick. Well that is still serious. Even if you do something as harmless as copy STUFF SOMEWHERE | more you would still end up 1.

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 Preview 11

2016-02-02 Thread Jerome E. Shidel Jr.
Hello again Don and Eric, > On Feb 2, 2016, at 10:50 AM, Eric Auer wrote: > > > Hi Don et al, > >> USB installer is a different matter. >> First, please disable BELL on lbacache - it wreaks havoc on my wifes's >> hearing aid. > > Wait, that is pretty serious! Only really important cache error

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 Preview 11

2016-02-02 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Don et al, > USB installer is a different matter. > First, please disable BELL on lbacache - it wreaks havoc on my wifes's > hearing aid. Wait, that is pretty serious! Only really important cache errors beep: - impossible CHS geometry or cylinder in CHS access - unsupported and rather exotic

[Freedos-user] Roll your own FreeDOS 1.2+

2016-02-02 Thread Jerome E. Shidel Jr.
Hello all, I have also created a youtube video that demonstrates how to create your own custom FreeDOS 1.2+ installation Floppy and USB stick images with FDI. (The FreeDOS Installer — Preview 11) It demonstrates the complete process from scratch, includes what you need to download, how to con

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 Preview 11

2016-02-02 Thread Jerome E. Shidel Jr.
Hi Don, > On Feb 2, 2016, at 8:45 AM, Don Flowers wrote: > > USB installer is a different matter. > First, please disable BELL on lbacache - it wreaks havoc on my wifes's > hearing aid. On 2nd boot I had to step through Config/autoexec.bat and ESC > out of LBACACHE. I’ll see what I can do abo

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 Preview 11

2016-02-02 Thread Don Flowers
USB installer is a different matter. First, please disable BELL on lbacache - it wreaks havoc on my wifes's hearing aid. On 2nd boot I had to step through Config/autoexec.bat and ESC out of LBACACHE. Second on my Compaq Armada 1750 USB is only bootable by PLOP boot manager and thus it a C: drive- t

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 Preview 11

2016-02-02 Thread Don Flowers
Very impressive "beta?" installer. I tested it several ways; the test machine is a Compaq Armada 1750 Laptop, PII MMX with 320MB ram a 60gb hard drive and a CDROM drive. 1) Installed over existing FreeDOS 1.1.1 2) Installed with a blank formatted C: drive 3) Installed with a non-formatted drive.

Re: [Freedos-user] Cobalt - my FreeDOS distribution

2016-02-02 Thread Corbin Davenport
No networking support yet, but that's on the to-do list. And it takes up about 5MB once installed. Corbin On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 2:48 AM, Steffen Grunewald < steffen.grunew...@aei.mpg.de> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 01, 2016 at 11:11:22PM -0500, Corbin Davenport wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I wanted t