Probably I lost something: anyone can riassume me what happened?
I use windows xp's boot manager for managing boot.
SORRY, it seems that I lost something. Basically, I looked at XP about one
time and decided I don't want an XP experience. For this reason I didn't
even know XP had a boot
I don't know any particulars about Decent.
How about posting information from your config.sys and autoexec.bat file
showing what driver and extender you are using and the settings for them?
At 12:37 PM 10/27/04 -0700, you wrote:
I'm using Freedos Beta 9 and the CD version of Descent
1.
When I
I was wondering if anyone knows a good benchmarking application that would
work on ALL pc's.
You might like System Speed Test
http://user.rol.ru/~dxover/speedsys
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No CD-ROM?
I don't know if the product(s) I'm about to describe are still marketed.
Having qualified this much, I'd like to say that a few years ago there were:
1) CD-ROM drives that attached to and ran off the parallel port.
2) Kits to allow a person to use a standard IDE CD-ROM drive to run
It could be as Uso wrote (see below)
If I were you I'd try CALLVER
Do you know about CALLVER? Do you have CALLVER?
At 08:36 AM 9/14/04 -0400, you wrote:
anon permutation wrote:
Hi,
I am running freedos(0.83 pl 3) inside dosemu on Linux. I have already
put version=6.20 inside my
I wanted to do some work on a set of floppy disks, things like format some
and check files and etc.
I thought I'd try LBACache with the FLOP option and Tickle to make things
faster.
I discovered that things like the DIR command and CHKDSK were not reading
the current disk in the drive, rather
My experience is that 4DOS works with FreeDOS kernal except for the command
line history.
Sometimes, quite often, the command on the line when using the history is
not the one that gets excuted, rather the one prior to it. I've only had
this happen with the FreeDOS kernel. And it can can make a
Does FreeDos work along with windows 98se? Forgive me if this is an
ignorant question, but it is! I do not wish to remain ignorant! Thanks!
I hadn't thought about that in those exact words.
There is a dual boot procedure developed that would allow a person to
actually select which OS at
Let us hope the MBR is not screwed up and it doesn't sound like it is.
Next time save the MBR before doing OS installs if you have a boot loader
which I think you do.
If you reinstall Windows, it will overwrite the MBR and you might have a
hard time booting to Linux.
Having said all the above
Forget Bochs, use QEMU - much faster. XD
-uso.
Thank you for the tip. I'll give it a try! I'd not heard of this, or if I
had it didn't catch my attention.
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Sometimes I have to use CALLVER to run a program. My question is:
What version number does FreeDOS report?
Thanks in advance!
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I'm not sure if this is Kosher, but Nero (for Windows) makes this whole
process very simple.
Comments anyone?
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Test description follows:
FreeDOS FORMAT drive C: 2GB FAT32
Booted with MS-DOS disk and installed Windows 98SE on C:
Installation when perfect and passed the MS-DOS SCANDISK checks
After Windows installed, ran Windows version of SCANDISK and DEFRAG.
No problems - no errors.
Note: I made a
Precisely as you said with MS-DOS and FreeDOS format:
NDD report is a little more comprehensive and here it is
After FORMAT C: I copied a few files and directories to the drive
Crossed checked with Scandisk and NDD
What can you make of this?
I've had lots of success using MS-DOS format and not rebooting.
The following is from AEFDISK FAQ's page. It was actually this that got me
in the habit of rebooting after formatting...
Q: What's the point formatting with aefdisk?
A: Aefdisk formats
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