Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Boot Disc

2012-09-26 Thread Jim Hall
Hi. This is a good idea. I'll link to the 1.0 boot floppy image, under the FreeDOS 1.0 section. http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.0/fdboot.img On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Mateusz Viste mate...@viste-family.net wrote: On 09/18/2012 09:11 PM, Rugxulo

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Boot Disc

2012-09-26 Thread C. Masloch
I'll link to the 1.0 boot floppy image, under the FreeDOS 1.0 section. http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.0/fdboot.img Kernel on that image uses 386+ instructions... and it seems as if it does that without (properly) checking for the presence of a 386.

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS Boot Disc

2012-09-18 Thread Ricardus Vincente
OK, a friend had a box of new, still sealed floppies, and I was successful making a boot disc. http://imagebin.org/228865 I am an official idiot because I forgot that I had another old machine laying around with a 3.5 inch floppy on it. The power supply has some bad capacitors, and it's really

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Boot Disc

2012-09-18 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Ricardus Vincente wizardofg...@gmail.com wrote: Would someone please remind me about why there isn't a boot floppy image in the FreeDOS web site that actually has FreeDOS on it? Seems like it would be a really easy thing to do, and for that small

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Boot Disc

2012-09-18 Thread Mateusz Viste
On 09/18/2012 09:11 PM, Rugxulo wrote: 4). There ARE floppy images, as mentioned, just slightly moldy. Most of us make do with old stuff and manually install. :o) http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/unofficial/balder/balder10.img

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Boot Disc

2012-09-18 Thread Ricardus Vincente
On Tue, 2012-09-18 at 14:11 -0500, Rugxulo wrote: Then link to the sites that have reliable boot images this way people don't have to spend too much time looking. Rich... Hi, On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Ricardus Vincente wizardofg...@gmail.com wrote: Would someone please remind

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Boot Disc

2012-09-18 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Ricardus Vincente wizardofg...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 2012-09-18 at 14:11 -0500, Rugxulo wrote: Then link to the sites that have reliable boot images this way people don't have to spend too much time looking. Here's another one that sounds promising:

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Boot Disc

2012-09-18 Thread Ricardus Vincente
On Tue, 2012-09-18 at 21:19 +0200, Mateusz Viste wrote: Maybe it would be a good idea to take one of these, and put a link right on the FreeDOS website, in the download section at http://www.freedos.org/download/ with a little note 'if you need to bring alive an old and rusty pc with only