According to wikopedia GPT is a king sized version of MBR. Can you try a smaller hardrive that uses a MBR? If your bios can still boot a hard drive with a MBR.
cheers DS On Mon, 1 Dec 2014 19:46:17 -0600 Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com> writes: > Hi, > > On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 10:22 PM, dmccunney > <dennis.mccun...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 9:55 PM, Thomas Mueller > <mueller6...@twc.com> wrote: > >> from dmccunney: > > > >> I can't run FreeDOS or any other DOS from hard drive because of > GPT; > >> only way is if I can install to a USB stick using FAT32 and get > that to boot. > > You never tried UNetBootIn or RUFUS? Maybe you could ask > www.osdisc.com to custom-build you one. > > >> I can't access the Internet from DOS because of lack of driver > for modern Ethernet chip. > >> Conceivably I could boot FreeDOS by NFS and even run from big > ext4fs partition. > > > > I don't even try. Even if I could, DOS browser support is > lacking. > > Yes, Arachne exists, but web standards have changed to the point > where > > many sites simply won't work in it. > > > >> Even if I could access the Internet from FreeDOS booting through > NFS, applications are > >> far behind what is available for Linux and the BSDs, meaning > essentially an exercise in frustration. > > > > Precisely. > > > >> Main purpose for accessing the Internet from FreeDOS would be to > see if it's possible. > > > > It may be *possible*. What you could do once you had would be > another matter. > > One of the big problems (not counting HTML5 or Javascript or Flash) > is > HTTPS. Not just for DOS but for any OS that isn't top tier (big > three: > Mac, Win, Linux). > > It has recently come to my attention that many popular websites are > now requiring it, which makes it very hard to operate unless your > web > browser can support it. And, in case it wasn't obvious, there are > only > a handful of "modern" web browsers (and host OSes) that work for > such > "modern" needs. Thus, anything that isn't top tier (Firefox, Chrome, > IE, Safari) is practically ignored / banned. And even some of those > are struggling. > > We're lucky just to have anything that halfway works anymore (mTCP, > Dillo, Links, Arachne). > > >> I never heard of vDos fork of DOSBox, can't find it in either > FreeBSD ports or NetBSD pkgsrc, emulators category. > > > > It doesn't exist there. vDos is specific to Windows, and intended > to > > support 16 bit character mode DOS apps in a 64bit Windows > environment. > > Because it's intended for character mode business apps, it drops a > lot > > of stuff in DOSBox intended to support MSDOS games. It works fine > > here to run things like WordStar 7 under Windows 7 Pro 64 bit. If > > what you run is Linux or *BSD, DOSBox is your option. > > DOSBox hasn't had a proper release in over four years. It's very > good > and portable but slow. I don't know the exact original motivation > they > had for writing it. Obviously "games games games", but still, I > assume > it wasn't meant for "x86 host only" or "Windows only". Of course you > could have it much faster and more compatible, in theory. > > I keep whining about VT-X, but nobody here seems to know or care > what > it is. We've already got several emulators (hypervisors: VirtualBox, > Hyper-V, bhyve) using it, and it's indeed better and faster than > "software only" emulation. (Though that doesn't mean DOS runs well > there by default: haven't tried except VBox.) Even Bochs, while not > (AFAIK) using VT-X, seems to heavily prefer SSE2 (SIMD) compiles > these > days just for faster speed. > > But the problem again is that not everybody has all these (cpu, OS) > features, so they can't "just use it." > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- > Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server > from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and > Dashboards > with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & > more > Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, > FREE > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157005751&iu=/4140/ostg.clk trk > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > ____________________________________________________________ > Extended Stay America > Official Site. 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