Re: [Freedos-user] Installed on top of WinMe: system unusable.

2007-06-12 Thread Grant Edwards
from LILO, so there are a lot of people who've learned how to use Grub. At least for what I've needed to do, Grub has always been good enough (there were cases when LILO wasn't). For real world products, being "better" doesn't win. Being the first one who'

Re: [Freedos-user] Brief notes on using KEYB

2007-06-08 Thread Grant Edwards
but I only noticed it the third time I read the section on commands. :/ I did find a TSR that does pretty much what I want, so I'm all set to go. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Eisenhower!! Your at mimeograph ma

Re: [Freedos-user] Brief notes on using KEYB

2007-06-08 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-06-08, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2007-06-08, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> I'm trying to figure out how to change the caps-lock key into >>> a control key, but I'm baffled by keyb: where do I get these

Re: [Freedos-user] Brief notes on using KEYB

2007-06-08 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-06-08, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm trying to figure out how to change the caps-lock key into >> a control key, but I'm baffled by keyb: where do I get these >> KL files I keep reading about? I've looked through all of the >

Re: [Freedos-user] Brief notes on using KEYB

2007-06-08 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-06-08, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> For those of you that may find confusing the multiplicity of files used >> by KEYB, you can read some instructions in the FAQ item: >> >> http://fd-doc.sourceforge.net/faq/cgi-bin/viewfaq.cgi?faq=Using_Free

Re: [Freedos-user] Installed on top of WinMe: system unusable.

2007-06-08 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-06-08, Alain M. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Grant Edwards escreveu: >> (now all I have to do is figure out how to fix that damned >> caps-lock key...). > > What do you want to do? I want it to be a control key. I'm pretty sure that keyb can do that

Re: [Freedos-user] Brief notes on using KEYB

2007-06-08 Thread Grant Edwards
: where do I get these KL files I keep reading about? I've looked through all of the zip files, but I don't see any KL files. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! If I am elected no one at will ever have to do their

Re: [Freedos-user] Installed on top of WinMe: system unusable.

2007-06-08 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-06-08, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2007-06-08, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Almost none of the other DOS software I've installed is working >> (a sh/ksh clone, a bunch of Unix utilities, etc.). > > Doh! I botche

Re: [Freedos-user] Installed on top of WinMe: system unusable.

2007-06-08 Thread Grant Edwards
recisely that reason. > Did 98SE and ME come out about the same time? About a year apart, IIRC. > I don't think that Windows ME has support for real mode dos. I thought it was basically the same as 98se in that respect, but I might be wrong. -- Grant Edwards grante

Re: [Freedos-user] Installed on top of WinMe: system unusable.

2007-06-07 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-06-08, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Almost none of the other DOS software I've installed is working > (a sh/ksh clone, a bunch of Unix utilities, etc.). Doh! I botched one step of the install process for the shell and utils (the TMP env variable was

Re: [Freedos-user] Installed on top of WinMe: system unusable.

2007-06-07 Thread Grant Edwards
s, etc.). I'm afraid I don't really have time to mess with it any more. >>I wiped the WinMe partition and installed FreeDOS from scratch. > > Hopefully you didnt lose your personal data dirs, one thinking > about is a nas server for the network and schedule daily

Re: [Freedos-user] Installed on top of WinMe: system unusable.

2007-06-07 Thread Grant Edwards
n the second primary > partition. Yep, that's what I should have done. The HOWTO sure gave the imporession that it would automagically share a parition. I'll probably jsut shrink the FreeDOS FAT partition and dual-boot Linux. -- Grant Edwards grante

Re: [Freedos-user] Installed on top of WinMe: system unusable.

2007-06-07 Thread Grant Edwards
d, and see if it runs (it should). I tried that. Same problem: no .ed files found. I've found another lightweight emacs clone for DOS that I'm going to try instead. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! HUMAN REPLICAS are at

Re: [Freedos-user] Installed on top of WinMe: system unusable.

2007-06-07 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-06-06, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried to install FreeDOS 1.0 folling the HOWTO and it appears > to have failed rather miserably: > > 1) The HOWTO says it will create a boot menu that will allow > me to dual-boot. It didn't. I can no-l

[Freedos-user] Installed on top of WinMe: system unusable.

2007-06-06 Thread Grant Edwards
cd fdos cd bin ls -l v* Is this typical or have I done something wrong? Have I trashed WinMe? Is FreeDOS more likely to work if I install it in a blank FAT partition? -- Grant Edwards grante