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 from a DVD or CD since I can boot from either. I have my system set to search for a bootable DVD or CD or Floppy then go to the hard drive. I changed this when I found out about FreeDos a couple of weeks ago. If it will boot from a CD or DVD I can burn either one with an ISO image file I can do that. That way I know if I boot from either all I have to do to get my system back like it's suppose to be is remove the CD or DVD and re-boot.
I will go to the site that the link is from and download again to make sure I have the right FreeDos and Build. I still need a few questions answered. 1. Will it boot from a CD or DVD it was mentioned it would. Yes you did mention that it would boot from the CD but what do you mean Live CD? Mine when I booted because I know nothing about this Dos and again I am green as a gourd and know nothing not a thing sorry, that's my problem but I really want to be able to run FreeDos because as I mentioned I always loved Dos. 2. when booting what files does it boot and where or the files located like Autoexec.bat config.sys and so on and are these the only ones FreeDos uses are there more. 3. what are the names of the files are they called autoexec.bat config.sys and are these the only ones again I tried to find these files on the CD I made and could not find them probably a personal problem always is.<BG> 4. If I know the above and if FreeDos will boot from a DCD or DVD I can fix the problem with some of the statements not working by just removing them. 5. After that I then can try and ask you guys why it wouldn't recognize my hard drives and why it renamed the CD I booted from as A and the floppy as C In other words I can start to play with it. I have an old Dos 5 manual so if FreeDos is like version 5 of Microsoft Dos version 5 I will have a book I can use. Thanks for the help I am getting more and more information each time. When I download the image file this time from the official site I will put it on a rewritable CD so that I can change the autoexec.bat and config.sys or whatever they are called and that should be easy if that's what they are called and where they are located. -----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 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: Windows system unusable. I would really encourage any casual DOS user to run FreeDOS in a virtual environment. I'd suggest the same for you. There's pretty much no risk of damaging your system accidentally when run inside a virtual machine. And unless you're doing development, the minor loss in performance by running in a virtual machine isn't noticeable. 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, and that's still nice, but I'm trying out VirtualBox right now. :-) -jh On 1/20/08, Ron Spruell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You know I have one question? Reading all the posts I realize that yes I > liked DOS and I ran DOS as long as I could, even went to DR DOS when things > were looking like Microsoft was going to drop DOS so I ran it as long as I > could But I am not oin the league of you folks that get into the guts of > this DOS. The question I have is this Can one of you if not a team get > together and fix this DOS so that I or anyone could boot from a DVD or CD > which ever and run this DOS off that media? I would also want it to > recognize all my drives including the memory card readers? Would this be > impossible? If not I would really like to have this DOS to be able to run > off a DVD or CD in other words boot from either. I have the Microsoft DOS 5 > and 6 books so I would have the information I need but I have to keep this > machine Windows ready and can't take the chance I would mess something up > and not be able to fix it. And I wouldn't have the knowledge to fix it if I > broke it so the reason I want it to boot from a DVD or CD. > > Ron Spruell Sr. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
