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Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDO

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Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Install

Hey guys I just bought soft pic 1.3 unopened in a box with the plastic still on it. What do you think of that ira? Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 10, 2017, at 5:41 PM, Jerome Shidel wrote: > > Also, try to just install BASE and not FULL. You can install the other > packages after the install c

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist

Me thinks Dario speaks with tongue planted firmly in cheek. Ho ho ho, LOLROF, :-D -- Jim -Original Message- From: Eric Auer To: "Discussion and general questions about FreeDOS." Sent: Sun, 17 May 2015 14:01 Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS wishlist Dario, > Intel core DUO2 T

[Freedos-user] Windows 3.1 in Freedos

Eric and all, I tried running Windows 3.1 with all the memory driver choices that are available at startup and none of them worked. Is there another driver available that will work with Windows 3.1? I appreciate your help and advice! Jim Crawford --

[Freedos-user] running windows 3.1

Hey Guys, I have a Pentium 3 running Freedos alone. I tried to load Win 3.1 and got the error : Win 3.1 will not run in protected mode. I understand that the command.com runs in protected mode. Do I have to change this permanently to run Windows. How do I get Windows to work? Thanks!

Re: [Freedos-user] Internet tools -- Off Topic Question

Dennis: I saw this remark which I hope will lead to a solution of a problem unrelated to FreeDOS. My apologies for going so far Off Topic. Speaking on the subject of hiding ads, you said in part: == dmccunney wrote: >On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 10:20 PM, "Jose Antonio Senna" >I use Firefo

[Freedos-user] XFdisk

I was installing freedos to a harddrive in hopes with hopes of having a multi-boot with four other DOS operating systems. XFdisk would not save any of the changes I made. Is XFdisk defective or what? Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks! Jim Crawford -

[Freedos-user] no sibject

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Re: [Freedos-user] Modern Uses For FreeDOS

On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:53:23 -0500 Bob Cochran wrote: > ...I would like to build a better > understanding of FreeDOS. What is it used for most commonly? I use it for control of a desktop milling machine. Modern computers don't have and can't use a parallel port in real ti

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 released

>>And in a few minutes, we'll have a torrent seed, thanks to our friends >>at ibiblio. >>:-) > > That's working fine as well, about 3x as fast as http, with only 1 > peer when I started (myself?, shows 6 peers by the time I was finished). > > But would be surprised if that would work for Marco, tha

Re: [Freedos-user] Problem with download Re: FreeDOS 1.1 released

> Correct, known before, unfortunately. > Only solution is to wait for the mirror sites to catch up, as they do > offer HTTP-only along with FTP. If you have a bittorrent client, you can now use the torrent seed listed at www.freedos.org/freedos/files/ Also, a few mirrors have sync'd with the 1.

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 released

>>I have discovered the wifi connection I am using have a locked ftp port... > > That won't cause any problems, as there is an http download link > presented on the FreeDOS download page for your convenience as well. ;-) > > That's btw the link I tested the other day... And in a few minutes, we'l

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 released

2012/1/3 Aitor Santamaría : > Just as a curiosity. Aas my google searches in Spanish by default, > hours after the release, I have noticed that there are already two > sites having an article covering that already (I don't know either of > them personaly): > > http://www.neoteo.com/freedos-1-1-nuev

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 released

> Would be interesting to get downloads statistics in order to know how many > people around the world is following freedos development... > I'll see what stats we can get from ibiblio. Been a while since I needed stats from them, but they do track it. At worst, I may have to wait until the end of

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 released

On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 7:09 PM, Marco Achury wrote: > > I cant connect ibiblio today, Appear that freedos release has colapsed the > servers :-) > > Would be interesting to get downloads statistics in order to know how many > people around the world is following freedos development... > > I haven

Re: [Freedos-user] Dictionnary program not working

On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Shérab wrote: > Dear all, > > I'm trying to use with Linux + dosemu + freedos a french dictionnary > which was published about 20 years ago with a search program running > under MS DOS. > > For the moment, I'm not able to make this program work. > No matter how I

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS in a Qemu box.

On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Tiago O. de Almeida wrote: > Are there any hints to install FreeDOS inside a Qemu box? I'm trying this > right now, but the installation process is damn slow. This is the Qemu > command line: > > qemu -cdrom ~/.qemu/fdbasecd.iso -hda ~/.qemu/freedos.img -boot > ord

Re: [Freedos-user] AST driver problem...

On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 6:11 PM, dmccunney wrote: > On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 6:48 PM, James Hall wrote: > >> It's not an ideal situation for these old drivers, but we need to be >> careful here. And I'll admit that I'm not sufficiently motivated to >> c

Re: [Freedos-user] AST driver problem...

>>But according to Wikipedia >>as of early 2011, the dormant AST trademark appears to be being >>relaunched by a new, independent company named DATA ACCESS based in >>France. I don't know if that means they purchased the previous >>copyrights (Beny Alagem

Re: [Freedos-user] AST driver problem...

On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 11:01 PM, Rugxulo wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 7:36 PM, Michael Robinson > wrote: >> There has been quite a bit of talk about AST hardware needing special >> drivers even under DOS.  Well, if the company won't put the drivers in >> the public domain and there a

Re: [Freedos-user] AST Research drivers

On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Jeffrey wrote: > Hi All, > >     About a year and a half ago, the last website offering support for AST > research computers went down. > Because have an AST 80386, I downloaded all the drivers and files before that > happened.  Would it be legal > for you to hos

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos iso file?

x27;ll comment it out from the mirror list if it's not up by then. -jh On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 7:27 AM, James Hall wrote: > Thanks. If they remain unavailable by the time I'm back from my current > trip, I'll take them out of the autopick list. > > jh > > On Nov 2

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos iso file?

Thanks. If they remain unavailable by the time I'm back from my current trip, I'll take them out of the autopick list. jh On Nov 27, 2011 11:04 PM, "Ralf A. Quint" wrote: At 08:45 PM 11/27/2011, jhall wrote: >Do you know which mirror site you were using at the time? It t... I just did and they

Re: [Freedos-user] Dillo web browser for DOS

Thanks! Looks like Dillo doesn't support background images in CSS, and/or the display:none directive, so it's displaying the word "FreeDOS" in the H1 instead of an image. I can fix that on the web site. On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Marco Achury wrote: > > Here is a screenshot of freedos.o

Re: [Freedos-user] Dillo web browser for DOS

Thanks, I posted a news item on the front page. Looking through your library source files, I was happy to see all "Free" licenses: * FLTK: GNU LGPL with exceptions * Freetype: dual-licensed with the Freetype license, or GNU GPL * Microwin: dual-licensed with MPL, or GNU GPL v2 * nxlib: dual-lic

Re: [Freedos-user] Serial ports versus USB versus virtual computers with DOS guests

Sent from my iPhone On Sep 7, 2011, at 6:41 PM, "Ralf A. Quint" wrote: > At 03:23 PM 9/7/2011, Eric Auer wrote: > >> Hi Ralf, >> >> my idea was that the serial hardware device to USB hardware >> port conversion was done in hardware, so "either covered by >> working hardware or hopeless"... N

[Freedos-user] Serial port

Hello, I have an external speech synthesizer that I have been fooling around with on my host os. Mac os x 10.7 lion. In order to use the synthesizer on my mac I had to get a usb2serial adaptor and install it's driver. The driver is based off of the ftdi chipset. My usb2serial adaptor is locate

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos.org unreachable

Both working here, too. On Sep 4, 2011, at 10:21 AM, "Ralf A. Quint" wrote: > At 05:44 AM 9/4/2011, dos386 wrote: >> Same for bttr-software.de :-D > Working both fine from here... > > Ralf > > > -- > Special Offer

[Freedos-user] Usb floppy drive

Hello, I have freedos running as a virtual machine in virtualbox. I am running mac os x 10.7 lion as my guest operating system. I have a usb floppy drive that my mac recognizes. I am wondering if i can enable the usb floppy drive so freedos recognizes it? Sent from my iPhone --

[Freedos-user] Mac os x lion and vm

Hello, I recently updated my macbook pro to mac os x 10.7 lion. I downloaded virtualbox and installed it. My question is i had freedos as a vm on my older version of mac os x. I had put the vm on an external hard drive before updating. I just wondered if i should reinstall freedos rather than

Re: [Freedos-user] dos backups in the 21st century?

Hello Ray, Thanks for sharing pictures of your setup. It's a real fascinating setup. Other than a duplicating machine, what function does it serve while connected to your network? Thanks, Jim On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 7:38 PM, Ray Davison wrote: > Karen Lewellen wrote: > > A question mainly fo

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

be a fun project. On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Bernd Blaauw wrote: > Op 4-8-2011 23:24, James Hahn schreef: > > Does anybody have any experience setting up a file server using > > Freedos? I am just wondering if it is a workable idea. > > > > Thanks, > > h

[Freedos-user] (no subject)

Does anybody have any experience setting up a file server using Freedos? I am just wondering if it is a workable idea. Thanks, Jim -- BlackBerry® DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA The must-attend event for m

Re: [Freedos-user] Basic networking abilities

On Jun 24, 2011, at 5:11 AM, Eric Auer wrote: > > Hi all, > > I hope you noticed the comment at the end saying that Aitor is NOT > actually the sender of this mail. Among others hops, it came along > the German Alice DSL IP 85.177.229.61 - the mail header says this: > >> This message did n

[Freedos-user] UIDE driver help

Hello, I am trying to set up support for a cd/dvd drive on my freedos. I am using vbox on a mac running freedos as my operating system. I want to be able to use my cd/dvd drive on my MacBook pro laptop. I have the drivers for UIDE. I have read the readme file, but it is very technical. I coul

Re: [Freedos-user] Lynx issues

Hello, Just got lynx running under freedos. I wanted to thank everyone for the help. I ran dhcp through mTCP and then edited wattcp.cfg manually. I guess now I should try and automate some stuff. I wonder why I can't get Ntool to work? I think It would be easier to automate stuff if I got Ntool

Re: [Freedos-user] Lynx issues

Sent from my iPhone On Mar 19, 2011, at 8:27 PM, cordat...@aol.com wrote: > > I got Lynx 2.8.5 running on FreeDOS in Virtual Box on Windows. I was able to > navigate to yahoo.com and some other spots. > > There are some "anomolies" in the way Lynx works compared to typical WATTCP > program

Re: [Freedos-user] ntool help

How do I load the packet driver manually? I have been running autoxec.bat via reboot to load the packet driver. Sent from my iPhone On Mar 19, 2011, at 3:09 PM, "Willi Wasser" wrote: > > If NTOOL tells you "bootp/dhcp failed" it means exactly what it says. But > this can have two different r

Re: [Freedos-user] ntool help

ne to WATTCP.CFG using the PRINT directive. So create a > WATTCP.CFG file > which contains only the following line: > > PRINT = "James WATTCP.CFG file has been accessed" > > Or whatever text you want. When you run either NTOOL or LYNX if you see this > line printe

Re: [Freedos-user] ntool help

hello, I reinstalled freedos to get a fresh start. I just now have been fooling around with ntool and mTCP. just now I got dhcp under mTCP to work. but now it isn't working. I can't get ntool to work either? when I run dhcp through mTCP I get an error: failure to get dhcp address. check you

Re: [Freedos-user] ntool help

From: Willi Wasser To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Wed, March 16, 2011 4:12:27 PM Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] ntool help > hello, > I want to use ntool to redirect output of dhcp to wattcp.cfg. > I am confused by the -g command line option. what

Re: [Freedos-user] lynx

I am running lynx 2.8.5 it came with the version of freedos that I got. freedos 1.0. I am running freedos through virtualbox on my MacBook pro laptop running mac os 10.6.4. I was going to try and get lynx running. I haven't been able to launch it yet. I used ntool's -g command line option to

[Freedos-user] ntool help

hello, I want to use ntool to redirect output of dhcp to wattcp.cfg. I am confused by the -g command line option. what does mean? does anyone know what I would enter, using ntool to redirect output of dhcp to wattcp.cfh? Sent from my iPhone -

[Freedos-user] redirecting mTCP dhcp

hello, I have been trying to set up lynx on a computer running freedos. I downloaded mTCP and tried to redirect dhcp to point to a file called wattcp.cfg. I changed into my mTCP directory where the dhcp exe is and redirected it by using the > character to a directory where I placed wattcp.cfg.

Re: [Freedos-user] lynx

Sent from my iPhone On Mar 13, 2011, at 7:07 PM, Jose Antonio Senna wrote: > In reply to my suggestions, Jim Collins wrote: > >>> set HOME=. >>> set wattcp.cfg=%HOME% > >>> set wattcp_cfg=.\ >>> with an underdash, not a dot. > >> I edited lynxbat.bat to have the underscore with no luck >

[Freedos-user] setting up lynx

hello, I have freedos running in virtualbox on my laptop. I am trying to set up lynx which came with freedos. I could use some help. when I first tried to run the lynx exe file I got an error saying that c:\fdos\temp directory doesn't exist. I was told by a member of the mailing list, that I

Re: [Freedos-user] lynx

Sent from my iPhone On Mar 11, 2011, at 9:54 PM, "Jose Antonio Senna" wrote: > James Collins said: > >> I looked at lynxbat.bat and the batch files says: >> set HOME=. >> set wattcp.cfg=%HOME% >> so is the batch file expecting to find wattcp.cfg >

Re: [Freedos-user] Dhcp

t; use the batch file. Hope this helps. > > ---Original Message- > From: James Collins > To: freedos-user > Sent: Wed, Jan 12, 2011 10:02 am > Subject: [Freedos-user] Dhcp > > Hello, > When I installed freedos, I have a MacBook pro running Mac os x snow > leo

[Freedos-user] freedos installation dhcp problem

hello, I am trying to install freedos on a mac using virtualbox. everything goes good until I get to the dhcp setup line. I chose option 1. use default dhcp for wattcp.cfg but the install hangs with ...no nameserver defined. just got a new laptop, and can't remember how I got around this probl

[Freedos-user] cd rom support

hello, just got a new laptop. I was just wondering before I install frerdos, is it possible to get support of my cd rom drive? one of the things I found disappointing about freedos was the lack of floppy support and cd drive support. I am wondering if I can somehow install a couple of drivers

Re: [Freedos-user] network and usb floppy access on mac [was: Dhcp]

I am using I GUI program of qemu and when I create my drive that I boot freedos from I have options for the hard disk I have chosen qcow, my other options are no hard disk, new 10mb compressed disk image, new 100mb compressed disk image, new 4gb compressed disk image, new 4gb raw disk image(for

Re: [Freedos-user] network and usb floppy access on mac [was: Dhcp]

drive it fails saying something like drive sectors not 1, 4 , 6, 16, 32 etc but 0.0 kb I don't know the exact error it returns with result 4. And I don't know if these are related Sent from my iPhone On Jan 13, 2011, at 3:01 AM, Rugxulo wrote: > Hi, > > On 1/13/11, J

Re: [Freedos-user] network and usb floppy access on mac [was: Dhcp]

Hello, One of my goals is to set up dhcp, cause I didn't during the install. I would like to fool around with lynx within in freedos. I have some older software like word perfect, some games etc. That I wanted to install. I really want to be able to type a: at a dos prompt and access my floppy

Re: [Freedos-user] Dhcp

and? Sent from my iPhone On Jan 12, 2011, at 12:27 PM, Rugxulo wrote: > Hi, > > On 1/12/11, James Collins wrote: >> >> I am wondering how to get a file I downloaded into freedos? Is there away in >> freedos to copy a folder into freedos? >> >> What I was

Re: [Freedos-user] Dhcp

Sent from my iPhone On Jan 12, 2011, at 10:41 AM, Mike Eriksen wrote: > On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 4:34 PM, James Collins > wrote: >> Thanks for the reply and link, >> >> I downloaded mTCP, >> So I guess I have to install this, some how and then I can reinstall fr

Re: [Freedos-user] Dhcp

, 2011, at 10:18 AM, Mike Eriksen wrote: > On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 4:00 PM, James Collins > wrote: >> Hello, >> When I installed freedos, I have a MacBook pro running Mac os x snow >> leopard, the install got hung up on dhcp configuration. >> >> I tried severa

[Freedos-user] Dhcp

Hello, When I installed freedos, I have a MacBook pro running Mac os x snow leopard, the install got hung up on dhcp configuration. I tried several times where I entered the settings manually edited the configuration file manual and chose the default with no luck. Most everything else got insta

Re: [Freedos-user] 4th boot menu inactive

On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 20:57 +0200, Ulrich Hansen wrote: > edit C:\FDCONFIG.SYS > > The problem was this: There wasn't any line that included the fourth > option as a choice ("1234?") only lines with choices "123?". Thank you for responding. Editing fdconfig.sys fixed the 4th menu option probl

[Freedos-user] 4th boot menu inactive

Greetings I have freedos installed to hard disk (from full iso) and working but the 4th boot menu option "boot with out drivers" can not be activated. I am trying to run turbocnc 4.01 and they recommend no emm loaded. turbocnc fails (unhandled exception 000E at 0020 1CAD errcode 0002) and I'd like

[Freedos-user] OT -- Test Message

This is a test of how this list handles multipart/signed messages. No response is needed. -- Jim pgpSw3uHYK16e.pgp Description: PGP signature -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take adv

Re: [Freedos-user] crash with balder

Eric Auer wrote: > Hi again, > > >>> Now for the 1.0 ISO I am absolutely sure that it does have a >>> menu with several choices - more than just pressing return. >>> > > >> www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.0/fdbasecd.iso >> doesn't. >> > > >> I r

Re: [Freedos-user] crash with balder

When I boot balder10.img from dosbox, it says "PCI BIOS Invalid; XDMA not loaded!". I'd flash my bios from dosbox but I doubt that is a good idea. I put a screen capture of dos box: http://lockie.ca/test/boot_000.png - This

Re: [Freedos-user] crash with balder

Eric Auer wrote: > Hi James, > > >> [freedos 1.0] crashes after I press return on the menu. >> > > Now for the 1.0 ISO I am absolutely sure that it does have a > menu with several choices - more than just pressing return. http://www.ibiblio.org/pu

Re: [Freedos-user] crash with balder

> > Hi James, > >> [freedos 1.0] crashes after I press return on the menu. > > Now for the 1.0 ISO I am absolutely sure that it does have a > menu with several choices - more than just pressing return. I think the first menu shows 3-4 options and press return is continue bo

Re: [Freedos-user] crash with balder

Eric Auer wrote: > Hi James, > > >> I just ran the boot disk as-is. >> > > There should be some sort of boot menu which lets you > select whether you want to load the EMS / UMB driver emm386. > You can use F8 to single step over config / autoexec. > Yo

Re: [Freedos-user] crash with balder

Eric Auer wrote: > Hi James, > > >> Grrr, balder crashes too. :-( >> > > Did you try -not- loading emm386? > I just ran the boot disk as-is. > >> 0CD5 ECA0 0A07 1105 1B80 90A2 0001 4200 00FB 0080 0549 0002 90A2 >> 0CD5 ECA0 0A07 1105

[Freedos-user] crash with balder

Eric Auer wrote: > Hi James, > > >> I downloaded http://odin.fdos.org/fdodin06.bin.zip >> and put it on my flash drive to be bootable. >> Is there a more recent bootable version because that crashes. >> > > Yes ODIN is totally outdated. Please let me

[Freedos-user] crash

I downloaded http://odin.fdos.org/fdodin06.bin.zip and put it on my flash drive to be bootable. Is there a more recent bootable version because that crashes. 1.1.33 build 2033 Jan 31 2004 interrupt divide by zero, stack: 0CD5 ECA0 0A07 1105 5010 9989 0001 4200 0280 5873B 0002 I've tri

Re: [Freedos-user] why make partitions hidden?

of an unrecoverable error, I'd think, than to try to continue only to get those results. James Haley >From: "Lester Vedrox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net >To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net >Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] wh

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos installation

I should be able to dual boot, since my BIOS has a built-in boot manager that lets me choose either the primary hard drive, the secondary hard drive, the DVD drive, or the network. But since I can't get this hard drive to configure properly, I guess I'm out of luck? James Haley &g

[Freedos-user] Install has run amok on my hard drives

, but this stuff is still opaque to me. Thanks, James Haley ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

[Freedos-user] 3com 35c589c PCMCIA ethernet driver reports Incompatible with Win95?

Hello! I've been trying to get net access on an old Toshiba laptop and recently orderd a 3com 35C589C network card for it. I found a DOS driver set from 3com's website, but when I try to install it under Freedos and choose the driver's automatic setup, I get the error "ComsLink is not a choice

Re: [Freedos-user] [Fwd: Re: [osFree] Microsoft's file system patent upheld]

TECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] So this whole case is based on total BS. This is just further proof that with enough money one can buy anyone in the USA government. Yes! Money Talks and everything else just walks! Shameful! James --- This SF.n

Re: [Freedos-user] FAT and other file systems

basic 8.3 file system, so I don't see that as a major problem. The point here is the patent is about LFN, basic 8.3 is not effected. Thanks, James --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for proble

Re: [Freedos-user] ReactOS -- take care

rest for the ReactOS list, rather than burden you here. Thanks a lot. Best wishes, Eric Twose. Please specify hardware type and include drive information too. Thanks, James --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges wi

Re: [Freedos-user] ReactOS -- take care

the end, A:>SYS C: was the only way I could see of getting back to square one. Having said that, ReactOS does look impressive. Best wishes, Eric. Go and join the Reactos development list at http://www.reactos.com. Thanks, James --- SF