Or maybe to install a Linux as second operating system... ;-)
Would have taken less than the 2 days to install your Ultimate...
Eric, I hate to have to use windows but 99.9 % of the folks and all of
Regions Bank use Windows so I have to stay compatible althou I would love to
be able to use DO
Hi Ron,
> The only dangerous tool from a LiveCD...
> is Fdisk as it can change/ruin
> the master boot record (MBR), which contains information
> about your harddisk layout...
...
> Format ought to do a number on you also
Well Bernd meant you can only format drives which have a
drive letter in DO
The only dangerous tool from a LiveCD (CD which boots FreeDOS from a
fake diskette, then loads CDROM drivers to get access to the remainder
of the CD/DVD beyond the initial 1.44MB) is Fdisk as it can change/ruin
the master boot record (MBR), which contains information about your
harddisk layo
Ron Spruell schreef:
> Jim I understand what you mean by a virtual machine because I know what
> virtual memory is as per Microsoft but for me making a virtual would be just
> as hard as making Free Dos run. I would much rather be able to run FreeDos
>
A virtual machine as ment here is often als
Hi Jim,
> There are several free ($0) virtual machine environments you can use.
> VirtualPC, VirtualBox, VMWare are all very good. On my Linux system,
> I use VirtualBox and DOSEmu, both for different things. I used to run
> VMWare. That's still nice, but I'm trying out VirtualBox right now.
Oth
Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Hall
Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2008 6:02 PM
To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.0 (was Network sharing)
Hi Ron,
I know I mentioned it in my off-list email to you ea
Hi Ron,
I know I mentioned it in my off-list email to you earlier this week,
but you can boot FreeDOS from CD and use it via LiveCD, but you still
have direct access to the hardware and if you do something in FreeDOS
without realizing what's going on (disk tools, etc.) you can quickly
make your C:
Hi Ron,
If you downloaded fdfullcd.iso from
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.0/
then you got it from the official location.
On 1/20/08, Ron Spruell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well I must have done something wrong, which isn't beyond me. I
> downloaded an i
