Re: [Freedos-user] help - how to make freedos bootable disk

2005-12-28 Thread Michael Devore
At 12:22 AM 12/28/2005 +1100, John Mills wrote: Can I run EMM386 2.08 with my Beta9sr1 installed? Or should I download the Beta9SR2 iso, and download latest EMM386 separately ? Any official FreeDOS build which isn't ancient should run with latest EMM386 just fine. Most unofficial ones, too.

Re: [Freedos-user] help - how to make freedos bootable disk

2005-12-27 Thread John Mills
D]> To: Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2005 5:30 AM Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] help - how to make freedos bootable disk > At 12:44 AM 12/25/2005 +1100, John Mills wrote: > > >Thanks for info. I'm out of my depth here. > >Apologies to anyone misled by my suggestion. &g

Re: [Freedos-user] help - how to make freedos bootable disk

2005-12-26 Thread Michael Devore
At 12:44 AM 12/25/2005 +1100, John Mills wrote: Thanks for info. I'm out of my depth here. Apologies to anyone misled by my suggestion. My EMM386 is version 1.13. Current EMM386 version is 2.08. You're one major release, many minor revisions, and a number of recommended updates behind.

Re: [Freedos-user] help - how to make freedos bootable disk

2005-12-24 Thread John Mills
l Message - From: "Michael Devore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, December 24, 2005 4:40 PM Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] help - how to make freedos bootable disk > At 12:53 PM 12/24/2005 +1100, John Mills wrote: > >alan > >Don't know if your program uses D

Re: [Freedos-user] help - how to make freedos bootable disk

2005-12-23 Thread Michael Devore
At 12:53 PM 12/24/2005 +1100, John Mills wrote: alan Don't know if your program uses DPMI, but some out of memory problems can be solved by disabling memory drivers e.g. EMM386/HIMEM, and letting DPMI take over extended memory. Nothing to do with a modern, e.g. FreeDOS version, HIMEM or EMM386.

Re: [Freedos-user] help - how to make freedos bootable disk

2005-12-23 Thread John Mills
an it, it would page out every time something moved on screen. After I disabled memory drivers, it's fine. John Mills - Original Message - From: "ho kok foo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, December 23, 2005 3:10 PM Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] help - how to

Re: [Freedos-user] help - how to make freedos bootable disk

2005-12-22 Thread ho kok foo
Hi Johnson,   Thanks. I managed to make the boot up disk and tried it. It runs my program but got "out of memory" problems when running DOS QB4.5  shell command unlike the regular msdos. Any idea to overcome it? maybe have to put ctmouse on high mem?   I booted up my old pentium with the freed

Re: [Freedos-user] help - how to make freedos bootable disk

2005-12-22 Thread Johnson Lam
On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 18:04:51 + (GMT), you wrote: Hi Alan Ho, > When burning CD using XP I normally use the XP's own burner. As Giorgos Kostopoulos suggested, BURNATONCE is a good choice for ISO, and it's free for home user. If you ONLY want a bootable FreeDOS floppy, you can try ODIN

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2005-12-21 Thread ho kok foo
hi,   Thank you for your advice.   shall try it. Managed to get the diskette boot disk working.   regards alan Palatinus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am using win98Se and copied and burned to> diskette and CD. The latter using Nero - copy and> paste. Guess it is wrong.yes... ISOs, are a

Re: [Freedos-user] help - how to make freedos bootable disk

2005-12-21 Thread Mark Bailey
Hi Alan: Nero has an option to burn an ISO image directly to CD. I don't have Nero, but according to this page: http://www.wizardskeep.org/mainhall/tutor/neroiso.html there is a "Burn Image..." under "File". That's what you want to use. It wants the ISO file (fdbootcd.iso). Try that and you

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2005-12-21 Thread Palatinus
> I am using win98Se and copied and burned to > diskette and CD. The latter using Nero - copy and > paste. Guess it is wrong. yes... ISOs, are a batch of files, ready to be recorded as a cd, not IN a cd. The result will be a cd with the files the iso contains (as well as other details) In Nero

Re: [Freedos-user] help - how to make freedos bootable disk

2005-12-21 Thread ho kok foo
hi Mark,   Thank you very much for your advice.   I am using win98Se and copied and burned to diskette and CD. The latter using Nero - copy  and paste. Guess it is wrong.   Yes both as you described contained the individual files.   When burning CD using XP I normally use the XP's own burne

Re: [Freedos-user] help - how to make freedos bootable disk

2005-12-21 Thread Mark Bailey
Hi Alan: When you do a "dir" on the CD or floppy disk (or an ls in Linux or using Windows Explorer), do you see a single file (fdbootcd.iso or freedos_beta9.dsk)? If so, then you created the floppy disk wrong or burned the CD wrong. To burn a bootable CD, if you are using WindowsXP, you can dow

[Freedos-user] help - how to make freedos bootable disk

2005-12-21 Thread ho kok foo
hi,   i have downloaded both fdbootcd.iso and frredos_beta9.dsk. How do i make bootable cd or disk from these files?   tried copying freedos_beta9.dsk to Diskette and burning fdbootcd.iso to CD. Both not bootable. Where have i gone wrong?   pls help.   regards alan  Send instant messages