Re: [Freedos-user] (sort of) new user with boot issues

2017-06-20 Thread Curtis R Anderson via Freedos-user
On 06/20/2017 07:08 PM, Jerome Shidel wrote: Hi Curtis, Since you are using a multi-boot system, there is something you will probably want to NOT do during the installation of FreeDOS 1.2. You won't want to the boot sector overwritten. So, be sure to run the installer in Advanced Mode and tell

Re: [Freedos-user] (sort of) new user with boot issues

2017-06-20 Thread Rugxulo
Hi again, On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 6:36 PM, Rugxulo wrote: > > Not sure exactly, not something I'm intimately familiar with. So I can > only provide hints (guesses). Found some more (hopefully useful) links: * https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Flashing_BIOS_from_Linux * http://web.archive.o

Re: [Freedos-user] (sort of) new user with boot issues

2017-06-20 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 5:32 PM, Curtis R Anderson via Freedos-user wrote: > > So, I have a need to run a DOS based utility to flash a SCSI card BIOS. > > I can't boot from a USB-based mass storage device with this desktop's BIOS. > No option is provided for it in the BIOS menu. Use PLoP boo

Re: [Freedos-user] (sort of) new user with boot issues

2017-06-20 Thread Jerome Shidel
Hi Curtis, Since you are using a multi-boot system, there is something you will probably want to NOT do during the installation of FreeDOS 1.2. You won't want to the boot sector overwritten. So, be sure to run the installer in Advanced Mode and tell it not to do it. It makes a backup of the cur

[Freedos-user] (sort of) new user with boot issues

2017-06-20 Thread Curtis R Anderson via Freedos-user
I haven't used FreeDOS since I had an old IBM ThinkPad laptop and I needed a DOS based solution to set up the hibernate space. It worked perfectly for that, although not all features were ever made to work. The laptop was retired years ago from hard use. So, I have a need to run a DOS based ut

Re: [Freedos-user] Would someone help me with my subscription ? (follow-up)

2017-06-20 Thread Ralf Quint
On 6/20/2017 9:45 AM, Jose Antonio Senna wrote: > > So, my conclusion is that the confirmation page really > was a contrivance to keep out users of older browsers. > You don't seem to read the responses you get. The captcha dialog, without actually showing a captcha, is a bug/quirk on SourceF

Re: [Freedos-user] Would someone help me with my subscription ? (follow-up)

2017-06-20 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Jose, very interesting detail in your SourceForge ticket reply! > There is also a captcha that is required due to e-mail > providers such as gmail automatically visiting links > embeded in e-mail. A while ago, a similar issue was noticed by German Heise c't magazine when Skype was found to