Re: [Freedos-user] num lock

2021-03-03 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Tomas, Jim, Jeremy and others :-) > On Wed, 03 Mar 2021 03:16:19 +0100, ZB wrote: >> >> http://home.mnet-online.de/willybilly/fdhelp-internet/en/hhstndrd/cnfigsys/numlock.htm > > Thanks. Maybe this should be under freedos.org somewhere, and > available for search engine indexing... > > /T

[Freedos-user] BIOS weirdness with SATA/IDE adapter (was IDE <-> CF adapters)

2021-03-03 Thread Jon Brase
Two months later... On 12/22/20 7:11 AM, Eric Auer wrote: (I've rearranged Eric's original posting somewhat because responding to this paragraph makes for a good introduction to where I am now it was originally towards the end of his e-mail) You could get yourself a converter to connect SATA d

Re: [Freedos-user] BIOS weirdness with SATA/IDE adapter (was IDE <-> CF adapters)

2021-03-03 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Jon, sounds as if your BIOS has various issues with large drives indeed :-o Have you tried the usual workaround software which installs a "driver" in the actual MBR and shows the geometry-sanitized rest of the drive as if it were the drive? There even are Linux kernel options to correct for t

Re: [Freedos-user] num lock

2021-03-03 Thread ZB
On Wed, Mar 03, 2021 at 03:34:24AM +0100, Tomas By wrote: > On Wed, 03 Mar 2021 03:16:19 +0100, ZB wrote: > > > > http://home.mnet-online.de/willybilly/fdhelp-internet/en/hhstndrd/cnfigsys/numlock.htm > > > Thanks. Maybe this should be under freedos.org somewhere, and > available for search en

Re: [Freedos-user] num lock

2021-03-03 Thread Tomas By
On Wed, 03 Mar 2021 13:24:32 +0100, ZB wrote: > Did you try to google for "freedos numlock"? Not google, as I have no barge pole handy, but duckduckgo does not find that page. /Tomas ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net ht

[Freedos-user] March videoconference

2021-03-03 Thread Bryan Kilgallin
My time, your conference will be at 4 AM on Monday 22 March. But I have mistakenly booked/paid-for a life-drawing session for later that day. I regret that I don't intend to stagger into the latter like a zombie! Therefore I advise you of my expected absence from your conference this month. --

Re: [Freedos-user] num lock

2021-03-03 Thread perditionc
Looks like I need to update the help files. The help.fdos.org site is on hosted by GitHub https://github.com/fdos/help to make updates easier. Jeremy On Wed, Mar 3, 2021, 6:49 AM Eric Auer wrote: > > Hi Tomas, Jim, Jeremy and others :-) > > > On Wed, 03 Mar 2021 03:16:19 +0100, ZB wrote: > >>

Re: [Freedos-user] BIOS weirdness with SATA/IDE adapter (was IDE <-> CF adapters)

2021-03-03 Thread Liam Proven
On Wed, 3 Mar 2021 at 13:11, Jon Brase wrote: [...] > when I input a manual drive size, I indeed get the 504 MiB limit (it resets [...] > Any ideas? Yes. Use a disk manager. It will install a tiny overlay before the OS boots and that will allow you to use arbitrarily-large disks without problems

Re: [Freedos-user] March videoconference

2021-03-03 Thread Jim Hall
Thanks for letting us know. On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 6:38 AM Bryan Kilgallin wrote: > > My time, your conference will be at 4 AM on Monday 22 March. But I have > mistakenly booked/paid-for a life-drawing session for later that day. I > regret that I don't intend to stagger into the latter like a zo

Re: [Freedos-user] num lock

2021-03-03 Thread Ralf Quint
On 3/3/2021 4:33 AM, Tomas By wrote: On Wed, 03 Mar 2021 13:24:32 +0100, ZB wrote: Did you try to google for "freedos numlock"? Not google, as I have no barge pole handy, but duckduckgo does not find that page. Better get a barge pole, because DuckDuckNoGo won't find jack **t... -- This e

Re: [Freedos-user] num lock

2021-03-03 Thread Eric Auer
>>> Did you try to google for "freedos numlock"? >> >> ... duckduckgo does not find that page. > > Better get a barge pole, because DuckDuckNoGo won't find jack **t... To join that little off-topic: Is there ANY search engine remaining which RESPECTS my search keywords? No matter if google or

Re: [Freedos-user] num lock

2021-03-03 Thread Ralf Quint
On 3/3/2021 11:43 AM, Eric Auer wrote: Did you try to google for "freedos numlock"? ... duckduckgo does not find that page. Better get a barge pole, because DuckDuckNoGo won't find jack **t... To join that little off-topic: Is there ANY search engine remaining which RESPECTS my search keywords

Re: [Freedos-user] num lock

2021-03-03 Thread Jim Hall
> > On Wed, 03 Mar 2021 03:16:19 +0100, ZB wrote: > >> > >> http://home.mnet-online.de/willybilly/fdhelp-internet/en/hhstndrd/cnfigsys/numlock.htm > > > > Thanks. Maybe this should be under freedos.org somewhere, and > > available for search engine indexing... > > > > /Tomas > On Wed, Mar 3, 202

Re: [Freedos-user] FDISK 1.3.3

2021-03-03 Thread Ralf Quint
On 2/14/2021 6:30 AM, Jerome Shidel wrote: Thanks, I hadn’t realized it was updated again. I updated the repo version to 1.3.3 on the repos. It won’t show up in the official repo web pages until the maintenance routine updates them late tonight. But it will be visible tomorrow at https://ww

Re: [Freedos-user] FDISK 1.3.3

2021-03-03 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Ralf! After using FDISK (with described problems) and rebooting and then using FORMAT, you say you were unable to run the FDIMPLES tool to install further: Your A: (and B: as mirror) were the virtual boot floppy, C: etc. were the harddisk, as far as formatted, F: was a mostly empty RAMDISK:

Re: [Freedos-user] FDISK 1.3.3

2021-03-03 Thread Ralf Quint
On 3/3/2021 3:23 PM, Eric Auer wrote: Hi Ralf! After using FDISK (with described problems) and rebooting and then using FORMAT, you say you were unable to run the FDIMPLES tool to install further: Correct. Nor could I copy and extract any of the packages manually Your A: (and B: as mirror) we

[Freedos-user] 1.3RC3 Installation woes (was Re: FDISK 1.3.3)

2021-03-03 Thread Ralf Quint
Just for the record, I end up in the same loop (Unable to find installation packages) when I do the same steps with the Live CD version of 1.3RC3 and select "install to harddisk". Ralf -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus