[Freedos-user] FreeDOS kicks some serious Ass!

2005-07-09 Thread Gerry Hickman
is incredible. I have tons of spare conventional memory, all my real-mode apps now run properly, and everything is faster than before. The other nice thing is that many of the FreeDOS facilities are designed to work with the newer hardware as well as the old. This is a fantasti

Re: [Freedos-user] re: FreeDOS kicks some serious Ass!

2005-07-18 Thread Gerry Hickman
CSI? Nearly all my stuff uses SCSI drives. (of course you can also work without any UMBPCI/EMM386... I prefer the usbaspi4 and aspidisk drivers for USB, by the way, even DEVLOADable well) These are news to me! Do you ahve URLs? I'm having problems

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS kicks some serious Ass!

2005-07-18 Thread Gerry Hickman
Hi Mark, You can install FreeDOS on a new computer and have it dual-boot with Windows XP as well. This doesn't harm the WindowsXP installation at all and doesn't require re-installing WindowsXP. Hehe, I'm sure this is useful for some folks, but for me it would be like sacril

Re: [Freedos-user] NTFS4DOS and EMM386 - the solution!

2005-07-18 Thread Gerry Hickman
Hi Mark, OK, I am AMAZED at Datapol's technical support. I sent them the boot floppy and received a patched version of NTFS4DOS Sounds great, but where can we get the "patched" version? I mean will it be made available by Datapol? -- Gerry Hic

Re: [Freedos-user] LBACACHE user question: Who needs TUNS?

2005-07-18 Thread Gerry Hickman
nd the scenes, unless you're writing a DOS management agent (unlikely). -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles

Re: [Freedos-user] More FreeDOS FDISK tests - failure is repeatable

2005-07-21 Thread Gerry Hickman
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Re: [Freedos-user] re: LBACACHE user question: Who needs TUNS?

2005-07-21 Thread Gerry Hickman
t there to tell me, for that reason. The problem for me, is that I have to build the servers very quickly and we don't have spare ones lying around, not to mention the amount of time it would take to test for data corruption. I guess it would be quick to test for timeouts? I'm also wor

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS kicks some serious Ass!

2005-07-21 Thread Gerry Hickman
The EU tried to get an OEM deal, where they HAD to offer an alternative to Windows, but that idea didn't get very far! I'm lucky to have Win2k on a big network and also at home, and plan to "skip" Windows XP. I'll be evaluating Longhorn soon, but from what I've seen so

Re: [Freedos-user] re: FreeDOS kicks some serious Ass!

2005-07-21 Thread Gerry Hickman
can't say I'm running FreeDOS x.xx, it's just a bunch of jumbled up files that happens to work on the latest expensive hardware. http://www.fdos.org/bootdisks/ OK, this is nice, but how are people supposed to find it from the main freedos.org site? Thanks for the USB links, I&#x

Re: [Freedos-user] More FreeDOS FDISK tests - failure is repeatable

2005-07-22 Thread Gerry Hickman
ore people not been affected? -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get ever

Re: [Freedos-user] More FreeDOS FDISK tests - failure is repeatable

2005-07-23 Thread Gerry Hickman
o should be OK. -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you ne

[Freedos-user] FDISK MBR and FORMAT questions

2005-07-25 Thread Gerry Hickman
MBR was missing? They all indicated "Active" and "Bootable" and "no errors"! 3. Why does Win2k setup program not warn about missing MBR or try to create one? 4. How is the MBR supposed to get there in the first place. Is it the jo

[Freedos-user] Control cluster size with Format

2005-07-25 Thread Gerry Hickman
a 2Gb partition, the FORMAT command told me the cluster size was 64K (!), and that Win9x and MS-DOS would not be able to use the partition. -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration

Re: [Freedos-user] re: Control cluster size with Format

2005-07-25 Thread Gerry Hickman
efault config is "behave suitable for Win98" which means that it will recommend FAT32 for bigger partitions. OK, well I only wanted a 2Gb partition and wanted to format on 4K boundaries, so I assumed FAT16 would be "better"

Re: [Freedos-user] re: FDISK MBR and FORMAT questions

2005-07-25 Thread Gerry Hickman
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Re: [Freedos-user] re: FDISK MBR and FORMAT questions

2005-07-25 Thread Gerry Hickman
er, if I understand correctly, AA55 is just a sig, it's not a boot program... -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward

Re: [Freedos-user] FDISK MBR and FORMAT questions

2005-07-25 Thread Gerry Hickman
there's no link provided on the websites? -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcas

Re: [Freedos-user] To Jeremy: FreeDOS FDISK another partition problem

2005-07-26 Thread Gerry Hickman
articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/l

Re: [Freedos-user] re: FDISK MBR and FORMAT questions

2005-07-26 Thread Gerry Hickman
s the MBR boot "program" too, not sure about the MBR itself. 2. I was confused by having FreeDOS 1.3.0 because I'd never downloaded it, and FreeDOS.org implies 1.2.1, it turns out that this later version is what you get when you download FreeDOS Beta9 SR1. -- Gerr

Re: [Freedos-user] re: To Jeremy: FreeDOS FDISK another partition problem

2005-07-26 Thread Gerry Hickman
I'm not convinced the numbers in FDISK are an accurate test. I've seen huge hard disks reported under other o/s, and then when you try to write above a certain cylinder (maybe 1024) is goes wrong. -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- SF.N

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK another partition problem

2005-07-27 Thread Gerry Hickman
between MS-DOS 6.22 FDISK and the FDISK that ships with Win95/98/ME (FAT32 and "large" drives), but none of them are as nice as FreeDOS. -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration St

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS kicks some serious Ass!

2005-07-27 Thread Gerry Hickman
nything about corporates, and none of the corporates I go into (quite a lot) are running Linux, even the Universities seem to be switching to Windoze:( -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conferenc

Re: [Freedos-user] screen reader

2005-07-28 Thread Gerry Hickman
ity * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) -

Re: [Freedos-user] Arachne v1.85;GPL,386+ released!

2005-07-28 Thread Gerry Hickman
Florian Xaver wrote: There is a new version of Arachne! http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/arachne/ What does it do? -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22,

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK another partition problem

2005-07-28 Thread Gerry Hickman
will better than any Windows server, since DOS have no (or very little) overhead. Yes, that's what I'm thinking. The problems will arise when you can't do multi-tasking and multi-threading, and utilizing full power of load balancing on dual X

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK issue with Windows Build

2005-07-28 Thread Gerry Hickman
C drive. Here is the exact BOOT.INI file that Windows creates when built under FreeDOS (beware line wrap!): [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000

Re: [Freedos-user] Arachne v1.85;GPL,386+ released!

2005-07-28 Thread Gerry Hickman
Bernd Blaauw wrote: What does it do? Arachne is a limited graphical webbrowser for DOS (and maybe Linux). Thanks, this was not clear from the original link. -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK another partition problem

2005-07-28 Thread Gerry Hickman
processor custom built computer? My guess is no... If you're going to invest in a big server, I think you need an o/s that can run many things at once, otherwise it will be sitting idle for a long time and won't be able to service many different types of request... -- Gerr

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK issue with Windows Build

2005-07-28 Thread Gerry Hickman
when Windows setup calls the reboot code... Anyway, maybe Bernd's post over-rides this part of the puzzle? -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK issue with Windows Build

2005-07-28 Thread Gerry Hickman
n't know if Windows setup would allow such things during text-mode setup anyway. I assume you loaded SMARTDRV? No, I used LBACACHE, is that the right toy for the job? It went like a rocket. -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- SF.Net

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK issue with Windows Build

2005-07-28 Thread Gerry Hickman
ot to begin the next phase, and this is the point where it would fail if there was no MBR. -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * De

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK another partition problem

2005-07-29 Thread Gerry Hickman
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Re: [Freedos-user] re: FreeDOS FDISK another partition problem

2005-07-29 Thread Gerry Hickman
programs at the same time access to the network, by managing connection queues and whatnot. That's the one! You explained it much better:) -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strate

Re: [Freedos-user] re: FreeDOS FDISK issue with Windows Build

2005-07-29 Thread Gerry Hickman
ning about not being able to run Outlook and Word:) the MS DOS boot sector. As MS DOS does not support FAT32, you can use Win98 DOS SYS instead. Yikes! The dreaded Win98! -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Disco

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK another partition problem

2005-07-30 Thread Gerry Hickman
rying to boot the correct array - if you only have one this isn't usually an issue. -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straigh

[Freedos-user] BIOS, SCSI, 8Gb and TUNS

2005-07-30 Thread Gerry Hickman
HER\ifshlp.sys rem lbacache tuns switch is needed for SCSI and UMBPCI INSTALLhigh=DRIVER\LBACACHE.COM SHELL=COMMAND.COM A:\ /E:1024 /F /MSG /P=.\FREEDOS\FDAUTO.BAT DOSDATA=UMB DOS=high,UMB FILES=20 BUFFERS=20 LASTDRIVE=Z -- Gerry Hickman (London UK)

Re: [Freedos-user] BIOS, SCSI, 8Gb and TUNS

2005-07-30 Thread Gerry Hickman
Gerry Hickman wrote: In an eariler post I said I'd seen drive sizes reported as 8Gb with SCSI when the drives are actually much bigger. I thought it was related to not using a SCSI driver and BIOS (INT13) reporting wrong size, and Eric said it wasn't. I think Eric is right, but m

Re: [Freedos-user] BIOS, SCSI, 8Gb and TUNS

2005-07-30 Thread Gerry Hickman
you already answered this. -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get

Re: [Freedos-user] BIOS, SCSI, 8Gb and TUNS

2005-07-30 Thread Gerry Hickman
ELL=COMMAND.COM A:\ /E:1024 /F /MSG /P=.\FREEDOS\FDAUTO.BAT DOSDATA=UMB DOS=high,UMB FILES=20 BUFFERS=20 LASTDRIVE=Z -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find s

Re: [Freedos-user] BIOS, SCSI, 8Gb and TUNS

2005-07-30 Thread Gerry Hickman
ed or misunderstood under EMM386 with VDS (which appears to be the case), then my guess is that it would be dangerous to run any kind of disk tool while the system is in that state? Even writing a file to a disk could cause corruption. -- Gerry Hickman (Lond

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK another partition problem

2005-07-31 Thread Gerry Hickman
to the MBR?? Does it get striped across three disks?!? -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcast

Re: [Freedos-user] re: More FreeDOS FDISK tests - failure is repeatable

2005-07-31 Thread Gerry Hickman
s is being worked on. I wonder if the MBR hole is still present when *not* using the GUI? If it's not, that would explain why I've never been hit by it! -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK another partition problem

2005-07-31 Thread Gerry Hickman
to the MBR?? Does it get striped across three disks?!? I don't know the exact answer, by theory MBR should exist on the other disk as a "parity". Hehe, pretty crazy? -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- SF.Net email is sponsored by:

Re: [Freedos-user] re: More FreeDOS FDISK tests - failure is repeatable

2005-07-31 Thread Gerry Hickman
made it clear I've only ever used 1.3.0 beta included in FreeDOS Beta9SR1. I think you'll find the 1.3.0 beta will run fine on the IBM eServer you are testing. The "Error 0 reading sector 0x3f", are you sure that sector is not damaged? What is the PC and drive spec? If you t

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS kicks some serious Ass!

2005-07-31 Thread Gerry Hickman
strange thing in the past where I could access SATA from DOS, but not from Windows! -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward a

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK 1.2.1-k not working

2005-08-01 Thread Gerry Hickman
rding not being able to get 1.3.0 beta, surely it's included in the official Beta9sr1 release? Anyway, congrats on your new monster FreeDOS eServer! All we need now is comments from IBM:) -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- SF.Net email is

Re: [Freedos-user] BIOS, SCSI, 8Gb and TUNS

2005-08-01 Thread Gerry Hickman
mess with disk partitions. Period. Hehe, so who knows:) Anyway, regarding the VDS and SCSI tests, I posted my findings and SysConfig earlier in this thread, and can also test the new EMM386 to see if there's any change. -- Gerry Hic

[Freedos-user] EMM386 'horse' went wild

2005-08-01 Thread Gerry Hickman
SI and UMBPCI rem but it doesn't seem to be needed on the 29360N card INSTALLhigh=DRIVER\LBACACHE.COM SHELL=COMMAND.COM A:\ /E:1024 /F /MSG /P=.\FREEDOS\FDAUTO.BAT DOSDATA=UMB DOS=high,UMB FILES=20 BUFFERS=20 LASTDRIVE=Z -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) ---

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK 1.2.1-k not working

2005-08-02 Thread Gerry Hickman
om within the IMG file. (I'm sure you know this already!) -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, infor

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK 1.2.1-k not working

2005-08-02 Thread Gerry Hickman
as to be at the start of the image]). But WinImage is great for browsing big ISO files with lots of subfolders and it also has "built-in" boot sectors you can choose. I guess we should ask the guy to put the FreeDOS boot-sector in there too! -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) ---

[Freedos-user] TDSK, SRDISK etc.

2005-08-02 Thread Gerry Hickman
rectory entries, but this was fixed by some command line paramaters. I'm assuming the FreeDOS versions would be less restrictive in this regard? -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration

Re: [Freedos-user] TDSK, SRDISK etc.

2005-08-03 Thread Gerry Hickman
N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z ) do if errorlevel H%%x set extradrv=%%x: Hmm, this is the kind of thing I'm trying to avoid! Is it not possible for the RAMDISK program to set an environment variable instead of an ErrorLevel? -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --

Re: [Freedos-user] re: FreeDOS FDISK 1.2.1-k not working

2005-08-03 Thread Gerry Hickman
quot;. Then you kind of said "You should get the 1.44Mb IMG files":) -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifec

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK issue with Windows Build

2005-08-03 Thread Gerry Hickman
and told SYS to install it to the C: drive, and even told it to use NTLDR instead of FreeDOS KERNEL.SYS The SYS command did it's thing, and reported the new boot sector had been installed, but when I tried to boot the C: drive, it did NOT look like the NT boot sector! It was saying "

Re: [Freedos-user] TDSK, SRDISK etc.

2005-08-03 Thread Gerry Hickman
asier. -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects &

Re: [Freedos-user] re: TDSK, SRDISK etc.

2005-08-03 Thread Gerry Hickman
place for %%tokens and all that, but not for my silly RAMDRIVE, it's just to hold a few temp files and the pipe | with MORE. http://www.coli.uni-sb.de/~eric/stuff/soft/specials/finddisk.zip (the binary is 511 bytes big...) smalle

Re: [Freedos-user] re: FreeDOS FDISK issue with Windows Build

2005-08-03 Thread Gerry Hickman
ow to get hold of specific FreeDOS files, whereas this thread is nothing to do with FDISK 1.2.1-k, but rather about boot sectors created by FreeDOS and how Windows deals with them (not!) and is based on FDISK 1.3.0 beta:) -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK issue with Windows Build

2005-08-04 Thread Gerry Hickman
saying "FreeDOS can't find KERNEL.SYS". Hmmm, something not right there. Yes, it had installed the _FreeDOS_ boot sector and kindly also written it to a disk file for me, DUH! Here are my versions: KERNEL 1.1.35 (B

[Freedos-user] SMART and SCSI?

2005-08-05 Thread Gerry Hickman
creen corruption. 5. Seagate Seatools (Win), 'SMART Status' says "A SMART threshold has been exceeded", but 'Quick Test' says "The driver for this drive doesn't support SMART". 6. AIDA32 refuses the SMART option for non A

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 VDS test fix, works with HP Pavilion

2005-08-07 Thread Gerry Hickman
Here's the section of FDCONFIG.SYS related to this: DEVICE=DRIVER\HIMEM.EXE /NOABOVE16 /X ; rem TESTING VDS option with EMM386 "chimp" DEVICE=TESTING\EMM386.EXE VDS NOEMS X=TEST /verbose -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- SF.Net emai

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK issue with Windows Build

2005-08-07 Thread Gerry Hickman
S 6.22", that's something I won't know until I've run the tests. If I can get the files today (Sunday) I can test around Tuesday. Monday is out because of multiple hard drive crashes on Dell systems that I need to fix first. Bernd Blaauw wrote: Gerry Hickman schreef: In th

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK issue with Windows Build

2005-08-08 Thread Gerry Hickman
uses BOOTONLY without the forward slash - at least according to the help file. I always check command /? before running anything! Thanks again, sorry for not understanding the notation used for files. -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- SF.Net em

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK issue with Windows Build

2005-08-09 Thread Gerry Hickman
he Windows NT/2000 boot loader menu 1. Windows 2000 2. MS-DOS (as opposed to "Previous Operating System on C:") Hehe, so I guess there's a difference between simply using DOS 6.22 format, and actually using DOS 6.22 SYS. Maybe the IO.SYS, MSDOS.SYS and COMMAND.COM cause the issue.

[Freedos-user] Posts not showing up?

2005-08-09 Thread Gerry Hickman
Hi, Since this Saturday, my posts are not showing up on this list until I re-post them about three times? There's no bounce message, they just disappear... -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Sof

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK issue with Windows Build

2005-08-09 Thread Gerry Hickman
t into MS-DOS 6.22", that's something I won't know until I've run the tests. If I can get the files today (Sunday) I can test around Tuesday. Monday is out because of multiple hard drive crashes on Dell systems that I need to fix first. Bernd Blaauw wrote: Gerry Hickman sc

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK issue with Windows Build

2005-08-09 Thread Gerry Hickman
he Windows NT/2000 boot loader menu 1. Windows 2000 2. MS-DOS (as opposed to "Previous Operating System on C:") Hehe, so I guess there's a difference between simply using DOS 6.22 format, and actually using DOS 6.22 SYS. Maybe the IO.SYS, MSDOS.SYS and COMMAND.COM cause the issue.

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK issue with Windows Build

2005-08-09 Thread Gerry Hickman
f SYS uses BOOTONLY without the forward slash - at least according to the help file. I always check command /? before running anything! Thanks again, sorry for not understanding the notation used for files. -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --

[Freedos-user] Posts not showing up?

2005-08-09 Thread Gerry Hickman
Hi, Since this Saturday, my posts are not showing up on this list until I re-post them about three times? There's no bounce message, they just disappear... -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Sof

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK issue with Windows Build

2005-08-09 Thread Gerry Hickman
he Windows NT/2000 boot loader menu 1. Windows 2000 2. MS-DOS (as opposed to "Previous Operating System on C:") Hehe, so I guess there's a difference between simply using DOS 6.22 format, and actually using DOS 6.22 SYS. Maybe the IO.SYS, MSDOS.SYS and COMMAND.COM cause the

Re: [Freedos-user] Posts not showing up?

2005-08-10 Thread Gerry Hickman
Hi Aitor, Same happened to me last night too... Glad to read this, I am becoming an anti-spam paranoid... Well, suddenly they have all shown up, but three days late:) Maybe it's all fixed now. -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- S

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK issue with Windows Build

2005-08-11 Thread Gerry Hickman
shoddy "plastic" style engineering. -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Drive

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK issue with Windows Build

2005-08-11 Thread Gerry Hickman
Hi Bernd, I can confirm this: strangely upgrading from DOS 6.22, Win2000setup doesn't finish and I get a spontaneous reboot during last phase of setup. I've not seen this before, it could be specific to the box. -- Gerry Hickman

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK issue with Windows Build

2005-08-11 Thread Gerry Hickman
they are HEAD, and I believe I need the "unstable" branch to test this... -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Developm

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK issue with Windows Build

2005-08-13 Thread Gerry Hickman
u've put description "{roughly 0.84pre}", so I'll go with that one for the COMMAND.COM -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisc

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK issue with Windows Build

2005-08-13 Thread Gerry Hickman
*kernel 2034, 2035, 2035A and the CVS kernel I see 2.0.35a on SourceForge, so that must be the Kernel I need. Sorry, I've just realized I'm already running kernel 2.0.35a :) -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- SF.Net email is Sp

Re: [Freedos-user] SMART and SCSI?

2005-08-14 Thread Gerry Hickman
. I think this kind of tool makes a good addition to any FreeDOS hardware test CD - check the health and history of your hard drives before installing stuff. -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software C

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK issue with Windows Build

2005-08-18 Thread Gerry Hickman
erfectly So there we are. For some reason /OEM:MS does not appear to perfectly mirror the use of MS-DOS FORMAT command. -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22,

[Freedos-user] Posting delays

2005-08-18 Thread Gerry Hickman
n the archive either and still isn't. It seems messages posted later than mine got through earlier... -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK issue with Windows Build

2005-08-18 Thread Gerry Hickman
000 FDISK /activate /pri:2 MS FORMAT c: (Note this is MS-DOS Format!) this installs MS bootsector. Right. There's a small chance FD FORMAT creates a slightly different filesystem compared to MS FORMAT. Add to that the 2 different bootsectors, and that might explain things then.

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK issue with Windows Build

2005-08-18 Thread Gerry Hickman
eigh the annoyance of the dual boot behavior, so I'll still use FreeDOS and just learn to live with the BOOT.INI problem. Anyway, I have to test PC set up and available for at least a week so if you want me to run any more tests just let me know.

Re: sys Was: Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK issue with Windows Build

2005-08-19 Thread Gerry Hickman
/ and then choose "Documentation" it takes me to something completely different, with FAQs, and I can't find the actual docs related to command line switches... -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the

Re: sys Was: Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK issue with Windows Build

2005-08-19 Thread Gerry Hickman
to get 4k cluster size) 3. FD SYS (tell it to grab Win9x boot sector from user) 4. Start Windows Installer and off it goes Simple:) (except I'm not the one who has to write the program) -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- SF.Net email

Re: [Freedos-user] Q from user

2005-08-20 Thread Gerry Hickman
the same result. CHKDSK indicates no bad sectors. The user does not indicate the method they are using to transfer the download to the floppy. Basically, you have to download the zip file to a hard drive (or whatever), and then use rawrite.exe to extract it to the bootable floppy. -- Gerr

Re: sys Was: Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK issue with Windows Build

2005-08-21 Thread Gerry Hickman
mmend their use. On top of this, we're only using this boot sector for about 10 minutes (until Windows setup begins). its all already written, I just need to add the glue logic to sys for a user supplied boot sector instead of using compiled in one (something I've been plann

Re: [Freedos-user] New CABExtract port

2005-08-24 Thread Gerry Hickman
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Re: [Freedos-user] Laplink-like program available

2005-09-04 Thread Gerry Hickman
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Re: [Freedos-user] Re: how to setup network on freedos

2005-09-04 Thread Gerry Hickman
correct NDIS drivers and starts the network. I looked at Bart's modular disk, but in the end decided to just make my own. Here's the article I used to learn how to do it: <http://www.microsoft.com/technet/itsolutions/network/deploy/confeat/tcpboot.m

Re: [Freedos-user] Re: how to setup network on freedos

2005-09-05 Thread Gerry Hickman
ith latest HIMEM and UMBPCI and suddenly I've got more conventional memory than I know what to do with. Best real-mode o/s I've ever used. -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conferenc

Re: sys Was: Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK issue with Windows Build

2005-09-11 Thread Gerry Hickman
cally dealing with licensing). Can you let me know where we're up to? As I remember it, the idea is that SYS will read a user supplied boot sector, add correct geometry info and write the full boot sector to the hard drive being SYS'd... -- Gerry Hic

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 2.05 update, recommended for all

2005-09-19 Thread Gerry Hickman
ng out to charities based on it's popularity?? -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42"

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 2.05 update, recommended for all

2005-09-20 Thread Gerry Hickman
VDS? Maybe that's the correct thing to do when using SCSI? Oh, 3.5) I was bored and it was a mild diversion. And, 3.75) It gave me an excuse to start working with Perl and Cygwin-based utils a bit more Excellent idea! -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --

Re: [Freedos-user] re: EMM386 2.05 update, recommended for all

2005-09-20 Thread Gerry Hickman
calls like function 8 or 48 when the stack is in UMB space... And it would be really nice to know more about that oddity. I completely agree. -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with

Re: [Freedos-user] ping?

2005-10-28 Thread Gerry Hickman
sses my mind a lot is "Should I be using Linux for boot environments instead of FreeDOS?". I don't know the answer, but I imagine Linux will cope with very modern hardware such as x64 and protected execution, serial SCSI, USB and so on, but right now FreeDOS does everything I need.

Re: [Freedos-user] ping?

2005-10-31 Thread Gerry Hickman
ems will never be native in DOS. There's not even an opensource SMB client for DOS. UDF is some kind of (read-only? packet writing?) filesystem for DVDs? Yup, well even a UDF reader would be good. This is where you use a CD-RW like a giant floppy. It _can_ work under DOS, I remember an A

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS operating systems

2005-11-01 Thread Gerry Hickman
te problems with the CD driver, you may want to try VIDE-CDD.SYS -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS operating systems

2005-11-01 Thread Gerry Hickman
he FreeDOS FDConfig.sys even tries to load the VIDE driver first... -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 4

Re: [Freedos-user] [Fwd: [freedos] Installing a DOS App and Having it Run Fullscreen?]

2005-11-02 Thread Gerry Hickman
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Re: [Freedos-user] MS-DOS 7.10 ISO CD image bootable

2005-11-03 Thread Gerry Hickman
ld bootable images of any of these o/s at any time. Note also that if you are going to use MSCLIENT you have to be very careful to match HIMEM, EMM386 with IFSHLP.SYS. Note also that Dos622 is fussy about the actual sector locations of IO.SYS and MSDOS.SYS --

Re: [Freedos-user] Re: MS-DOS 7.10 ISO & Windows 3.1 drivers

2005-11-04 Thread Gerry Hickman
s ATI are obsessed with getting into bed with Microsoft, so they design everything to fit with whatever DirectX specification is the flavor of the month although the good news is that I'm seeing more and more Linux drivers on sites that used to be Windows only. -- Gerry Hickman (London UK)

Re: [Freedos-user] XDMA v2.5 available!

2005-11-10 Thread Gerry Hickman
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