Re: [Freedos-user] Boot floppy image files

2012-09-27 Thread Eric Auer
Hi :-) > So, roughly speaking, the main (bootable) disk would be: > > KERNEL, FreeCOM, XMGR, JEMMEX, UIDE, CTMOUSE, DOSLFN, UNZIP16, > 7ZDECODE, EDIT, SYS, FDISK, FORMAT, DISKCOPY, FDXMS286, HDPMI16, > CWSDPMI, DOS32A, CWSTUB, XCOPY, SHCDX33F, RDISK, That is at least a reasonable set of dr

[Freedos-user] Boot floppy image files

2012-09-26 Thread nospam
A floppy image will probably not be used a lot to write it on a real floppy today. I use it as a base to make bootable CDs according to the ElTorito standard. Or use it with Bochs to boot from that image. The files on the floppy image will be enough of the FreeDOS distribution for most embedded

Re: [Freedos-user] Boot floppy image files

2012-09-26 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 5:22 PM, Jim Hall wrote: > On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 1:11 AM, nospam wrote: > >> Rugxulo has made a single floppy FreeDOS image called BARE_DOS that works >> well: >> https://sites.google.com/site/rugxulo/ >> >> Georg > > FYI: I've also mirrored Rugxulo's BARE_DOS to >

Re: [Freedos-user] Boot floppy image files

2012-09-26 Thread Ricardus Vincente
On Wed, 2012-09-26 at 17:22 -0500, Jim Hall wrote: The boot image I found didn't have CDROM drivers, but added them. I could just make an ISO of the floppies I ended up making, if you like. Rich... > On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 1:11 AM, nospam wrote: > > Rugxulo has made a single floppy FreeDOS i

Re: [Freedos-user] Boot floppy image files

2012-09-26 Thread Jim Hall
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 1:11 AM, nospam wrote: > Rugxulo has made a single floppy FreeDOS image called BARE_DOS that works > well: > https://sites.google.com/site/rugxulo/ > > Georg FYI: I've also mirrored Rugxulo's BARE_DOS to http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distribution

Re: [Freedos-user] Boot floppy image files

2012-09-16 Thread nospam
Rugxulo has made a single floppy FreeDOS image called BARE_DOS that works well: https://sites.google.com/site/rugxulo/ Georg -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's secu

Re: [Freedos-user] Boot floppy image files

2012-09-16 Thread Ricardus Vincente
On Sun, 2012-09-16 at 23:59 +, "Jose Antonio Senna" wrote: > > While I understand that FreeDOS is a modern DOS not meant just for > >older hardware, I thought that one of the purposes for FreeDOS was to > >make older hardware relevant again. From the looks of it, I can't see > >any reasonable

Re: [Freedos-user] Boot floppy image files

2012-09-16 Thread Jose Antonio Senna
Ricardus Vincente said: > While I understand that FreeDOS is a modern DOS not meant just for >older hardware, I thought that one of the purposes for FreeDOS was to >make older hardware relevant again. From the looks of it, I can't see >any reasonable way to get FreeDOS working on an old machine t

Re: [Freedos-user] Boot floppy image files

2012-09-16 Thread lee jones
not sure if it helps but I made this bootdisk a while back; http://spfiles.no-ip.org/dos_bootdisk.img I use this with an emulator called PCE which emulates an old 8086 based PC. ljones On 9/16/12, Ralf A. Quint wrote: > At 01:46 PM 9/16/2012, Ricardus Vincente wrote: >>On Sun, 2012-09-16 at 22

Re: [Freedos-user] Boot floppy image files

2012-09-16 Thread Ralf A. Quint
At 01:46 PM 9/16/2012, Ricardus Vincente wrote: >On Sun, 2012-09-16 at 22:39 +0200, Eric Auer wrote: > > Thanks! > > Wow. I imagined that it would be a little easier than this. > > While I understand that FreeDOS is a modern DOS not meant just for >older hardware, I thought that one of the purpo

Re: [Freedos-user] Boot floppy image files

2012-09-16 Thread Ricardus Vincente
On Sun, 2012-09-16 at 22:39 +0200, Eric Auer wrote: Thanks! Wow. I imagined that it would be a little easier than this. While I understand that FreeDOS is a modern DOS not meant just for older hardware, I thought that one of the purposes for FreeDOS was to make older hardware relevant again.

Re: [Freedos-user] Boot floppy image files

2012-09-16 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Ricardus, Am 16.09.2012 21:56, schrieb Ricardus Vincente: > I have looked around the FreeDOS web page and can't find them. I am > looking to resurrect an old Zeos Pentium 90 that I have, but it won't > boot from CD (its not a BIOS option), and it has no OS on it right now, > so I am going to

Re: [Freedos-user] Boot floppy image files

2012-09-16 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Ricardus Vincente wrote: > > I have looked around the FreeDOS web page and can't find them. I am > looking to resurrect an old Zeos Pentium 90 that I have, but it won't > boot from CD (its not a BIOS option), and it has no OS on it right now, > so I am going

Re: [Freedos-user] Boot floppy image files

2012-09-16 Thread Felix Miata
On 2012-09-16 15:56 (GMT-0400) Ricardus Vincente composed: > I have looked around the FreeDOS web page and can't find them. I am > looking to resurrect an old Zeos Pentium 90 that I have, but it won't > boot from CD (its not a BIOS option), and it has no OS on it right now, > so I am going to ne

[Freedos-user] Boot floppy image files

2012-09-16 Thread Ricardus Vincente
I have looked around the FreeDOS web page and can't find them. I am looking to resurrect an old Zeos Pentium 90 that I have, but it won't boot from CD (its not a BIOS option), and it has no OS on it right now, so I am going to need to boot it from 3.5 floppy. Are there any official IMG files tha