Theta Sigma schreef:
1. I have an old DOS program that used to run under Windows-98. It
is the Giebler MIDI converter series of programs.
2. Under Windows XP this garners a runtime error 200 (doesn't matter
if I open a CMD window or not)
sounds like the program was created in the programming language Pascal,
which exposed your problem if it was run on computers with a processor
speed of 200MHz or more. Either use a patch (I hope someone can point
you to it) or use a system slowdown utility.
4. If I create the DOS diskette with the fdos1440.img and the
"rawreite.exe" will I end up with a disk that I can use similarly to
the old DOS 6.22 disk. That is to say, will it boot to FreeDOS and
present me with a "DOS" prompt? Will I be able to execute the
program, do you think?
Only new disks will allow you to reach the console, as indeed the disk
is intended to gain access to cdrom and to install freedos.
See above for your original problem.
I recommend to obtain one of the so called ODIN (One Disk Installation)
disks. Contrary to its name, it's a disk with only programs on it, and
it won't touch the harddisk. The only "installation part" is manual work
if the user desires so (fdisk, format c: , sys c: and xcopy /s a:\*.*
c:\freedos\ ).
Please get the disk (you still need rawrite) from the following site:
http://wiki.fdos.org/Distribution/Beta9SR2readme
(still work in progress for a few more days)
5. More importantly, will this diskette in any way alter my master
hard drive (Windows XP) by writing anything to it? This is what I
hope to avoid.
Nope, we've had that error once, my mistake that time. It destroyed the
Windows bootloader (actually the bootsector, which points to the bootloader)
Thanks - the FAQ was not clear if this is a simple boot disk - seemed
to indicate that it is, instead, a diskette that "installs" DOS.
http://fdos.org/bootdisks/ also seems to contain several FreeDOS
bootdisk files.
Bernd
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