Re: [Freedos-user] freedos installation disk space requirements - was: Some driver updates

2017-11-08 Thread Jerome Shidel
> On Nov 8, 2017, at 2:40 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > > > Hi Jerome, > >> Maybe the installer should just assume FULL install + sources > > Not really. Almost nobody installs all sources at the same time > and I would not even want the option in the installer: Instead, > I prefer to have the opti

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos installation disk space requirements - was: Some driver updates

2017-11-08 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Jerome, > Maybe the installer should just assume FULL install + sources Not really. Almost nobody installs all sources at the same time and I would not even want the option in the installer: Instead, I prefer to have the option to install + PACKAGES with sources. Then I can unzip only those s

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos installation disk space requirements - was: Some driver updates

2017-11-07 Thread Jerome Shidel
I see a lot of assume this, assume that, plus a little of roughly this... Maybe the installer should just assume FULL install + sources + (2x) old OS backup + 1-5MB safety margin at startup. If there is not that much space, tell user the error and stop. Like several other dangerous things

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos installation disk space requirements - was: Some driver updates

2017-11-07 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Jerome, >> Start with Base. > Can’t. If user is doing a custom install Yes you can ;-) Base install will be a common choice, so it is good if you can at least predict how much disk space is required for THAT. I think this also is exactly why Robert wrote START with base: You can always try t

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos installation disk space requirements - was: Some driver updates

2017-11-07 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Robert :-) >> Base size, >> Base + sources size, >> Full size, >> Full + sources size, >> All package sizes (custom advanced mode) >> All packages + sources sizes, > Start with Base. Actually I would suggest to never install complete categories WITH SOURCE. Just install sources of individual

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS installation using VirtualBox

2016-01-20 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 6:05 PM, francisco ramirez wrote: > > Today, I turned on the system and when I click on START in VirtualBox to > start the FreeDOS I get the following error message: > > Failed to open a session for the virtual machine FreeDOS. > > The virtual machine 'FreeDOS' has ter

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS installation using VirtualBox

2016-01-20 Thread francisco ramirez
Finally managed to complete the installation of FreeDOS under VirtualBox.I ran it successfully a few times.Today, I turned on the system and when I click on START in VirtualBox to start the FreeDOS I get the following error message: Failed to open a session for the virtual machine FreeDOS. The vi

[Freedos-user] Freedos Installation

2012-08-03 Thread Nolin Chitnis
Hello I tried to install Freedos 1.0 on a SD card using Unetbootin. I used the Freedos from the drop down menu of the latest Unetbootin version and ran the process to write it on the SD card. After completion the install manager asked me for a reboot which I did. The Freedos program ran correctly

[Freedos-user] freedos installation dhcp problem

2011-03-10 Thread James Collins
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

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos installation using usb drive

2009-01-01 Thread gabriel borrageiro
your help.Gabriel> Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 21:43:58 +0100> From: e.a...@jpberlin.de> To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] freedos installation using usb drive> > > Hi!> > > Yes I have an IDE drive and a usb cdrom.> > My BIOS is a

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos installation using usb drive

2008-12-31 Thread Alexandru Fira
  If you do not have a CD drive for your PC, then it would be useful to buy a USB CD or DVD-RW drive. It is always useful, so it is not a waste of money. You can use later for a lot of interesting things. And it is not very expensive, around 100 RON in Romania, so 32 dollars.   I have Freedos o

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos installation using usb drive

2008-12-31 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! > Yes I have an IDE drive and a usb cdrom. > My BIOS is able to boot USB. Good... > I guess what I'm looking for is a usb image of > FreeDos. then I can make the IDE disk the active > partition and install XP. There is no USB image because USB sticks all have different sizes. But there are

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos installation using usb drive

2008-12-31 Thread gabriel borrageiro
Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:40:02 +0100> From: michael_reichenb...@freenet.de> To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] freedos installation using usb drive> > - You have no floppy.> - You have IDE harddisk?> - You have USB CD-ROM.> - You have no legac

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos installation using usb drive

2008-12-31 Thread Michael Reichenbach
And I may add, if you can not boot from USB you should either purchase a legacy floppy or a legacy CD-ROM. With help of those you may be even able to use these devices as a kicker to boot up USB. -mr Jonathan W. schrieb: > That depends. First, go into your BIOS and see if it supports booting fro

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos installation using usb drive

2008-12-31 Thread Michael Reichenbach
- You have no floppy. - You have IDE harddisk? - You have USB CD-ROM. - You have no legacy CD-ROM? There was a similar question recently... http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=6599 First you must tell us if you are able to boot from USB. Does your BIOS have options to boot USB? Di

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos installation using usb drive

2008-12-31 Thread Jonathan W.
That depends. First, go into your BIOS and see if it supports booting from USB; you should be able to find this out by going into the "Boot Order" menu. If there's a USB option, then yes, you probably can; otherwise, no, you'll have to find a floppy drive somewhere. If your computer is new enough

[Freedos-user] freedos installation using usb drive

2008-12-31 Thread gabriel borrageiro
hello all, I don't have a floppy drive and my pc won't detect my usb based cdrom drive. Can I install freedos onto a usb drive and then onto my hard dive from the usb drive? I extracted the freedos cdrom image onto the usb drive and that did'nt work properly.regardsGabriel

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS installation ISOs

2008-09-28 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! > what is the difference between the > files/distributions/1.0 > and > files/distributions/1.0/3sep2006 > ... except the latter contains zipped files. > Does the former contain more up-to-date ISOs? There was an error in the ISOLINUX config of our ISOs so Jim "remastered" them. The file

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS installation ISOs

2008-09-28 Thread Simon Atkinson
Hi there ... just a quick query: what is the difference between the files/distributions/1.0 and files/distributions/1.0/3sep2006 ..except the latter contains zipped files. Does the former contain more up-to-date ISOs? Thanks Simon -

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos installation on dos partition on linux system

2007-03-23 Thread Bonnie Dalzell
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Eric Auer wrote: Thank you for your replies. My main harddrive was set up this way: hda1 a fat 32 1/gig partition - no os in it hda2 - a hardfile for use with the x86 amiga OS emulator AMIthlon hda3 - ubuntu gnu/linux ext3 hda4 - linux swap the boot for the system is out of

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos installation on dos partition on linux system

2007-03-23 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Bonnie, I recommend to use a normal file, not /dev/fd0, to save the mbr. Of course you should put a copy of the file in a place where you can reach it if your Linux cannot boot from harddisk. To backup the mbr of the second harddisk, use /dev/hdb instead of /dev/hda, and so on. a / b are prima

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos installation on dos partition on linux system

2007-03-23 Thread tekno1911
--chris http://nxdos.sourceforge.net/ > Original Message > Subject: [Freedos-user] freedos installation on dos partition on linux > system > From: Bonnie Dalzell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, March 22, 2007 6:06 pm > To: freedos-user@lists.sourcefo

[Freedos-user] freedos installation on dos partition on linux system

2007-03-22 Thread Bonnie Dalzell
when i first tried freedos i took and extra harddrive an put it in a removable drive drawer and installed it as the only os on that drive.then i can boot into it by using the bios to choose to boot off of ide2. however my main harddrive has a dos formatted partition which is large enough for fre

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos installation

2006-06-04 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 4-Июн-2006 04:00 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lester Vedrox) wrote to "freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net" : LV> You can have up to three primary partitions and one logical partition. Wrong. To be precise: 4 primary partitions or up to 3 primary partitions and one extended partition with any qua

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos installation

2006-06-04 Thread Lester Vedrox
James, I'm not sure if you really got all your partitions right. The most common configuration is as follows. You can have up to three primary partitions and one logical partition. Each primary partition can be made "active" or "bootable" (which means the same thing). Most operating systems

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos installation

2006-06-02 Thread James Haley
Thanks to your tip I was able to capture the error message: -- C: HD1, Pri[1],CHS= 0-1-1,start= 0 MB,size= 1027 MB D: HD2, Pri[2],CHS= 0-1-1,start= 0 MB,size= 3380 MB IO error: cylinder > 1023 IO error: cylinder > 1023 Press F8 to tra

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS installation gone wrong

2004-08-13 Thread Rakhesh Sasidharan
said above ... and you are done! Hope that helps. Welcome to FreeDOS! :) Thanks, Rakhesh - Original message - From: "B or J Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 17:14:25 +1000 Subject: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS installation gone wrong Hello,

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS installation gone wrong

2004-08-13 Thread Bernd Blaauw
16 BIT schreef: Having said all the above ... I think this will fix your problem. 16BIT, you're completely correct. create a Win98 bootdisk (or whatever Windows version you are using), with SYS.COM on it. then boot from it, backup MSDOS.SYS ( COPY C:\MSDOS.SYS C:\MSDOS.BAK) then copy over the

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS installation gone wrong

2004-08-13 Thread 16 BIT
Let us hope the MBR is not screwed up and it doesn't sound like it is. Next time save the MBR before doing OS installs if you have a boot loader which I think you do. If you reinstall Windows, it will overwrite the MBR and you might have a hard time booting to Linux. Having said all the above .

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS installation gone wrong

2004-08-13 Thread B or J Cox
Hello, I have just installed FreeDOS on my duel boot Windows / Linux PC. I attempted to install it on d: but it has interfered with Windows, which is on my C: When I select Windows from the lilo menu I now get the following message and the computer hangs:- Loading FreeDOS No KERNEL SYS H