got a 'distribution disk' of freedos, ran the sys command. copied it from the net to a floppy using ubuntu 13.10, put it in a 486 24MB windows 98 computer with the windows programs removed and the MSDOS 7.10 and 4dos in place, with a network. A few issues:
Freedos did not like 'sys'ing to the floppy that it resides on, so I could boot into freedos, running the ver command shows MD DOS version 7.10. I don't know if MSDOS is still there or if this is a compatibility issue. I'd sure like it to say freedos, if it is. Running the defrag program (freedos version) only allowed me to do a 'quickie'. the real options were grayed out. I have a little dos stuff (about 130mb) in the middle of this huge 4.3 gb drive. I releived the drive of its win98 burden. I want the dos at the beginning, and the unused 'wiped', as the program suggests. Freedos complains that my last drive is not high enough. It runs, but it stops and waits for a <return>. This will confuse my secty tomorrow morning. I run a network called "little big lan" (love it). It has a program to set the last drive called netunits. I have it set to 10. This computer has a floppy, a hd, and a cd. No more. 10 has been enough for msdos 7.1 for the last decade. Raising it to 12 had no effect. Thoughts? John (wordstar 5.5 and foxpro/dos forever!) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Android is increasing in popularity, but the open development platform that developers love is also attractive to malware creators. Download this white paper to learn more about secure code signing practices that can help keep Android apps secure. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=65839951&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
