From: Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com>
Hi, On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 5:15 PM, Dennis Fenton <dwf...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The 486 that I plan to use FreeDOS on currentlyrCA has MS-DOS 6.22 as its only OS. > My plan is to completely replace it but keep all my installed programs. The SCSI > drivers are all in C:\SCSI and I notice FreeDOS has its own equivalent of MSCDEX.EXE. If you have anything more important than games (and/or don't have the original installation media for them and/or the disks for the version of MS-DOS you're using), then maybe you shouldn't quite install FreeDOS "just yet"! Especially any personal files (personal docs, sources, game saves, registration keys), make sure to back those up several times! It might be safer to use a separate hard drive entirely for FreeDOS so that you don't risk deleting anything important. You never did mention if you have a working packet driver (I'll assume not), but it might make backing up files a lot easier. If you just want to play around with FreeDOS, just use a bootable floppy (as suggested), which will minimally let you use the FD kernel with all of your pre-existing utils. Honestly, if you already have MS-DOS, then you probably aren't the target audience for FreeDOS at all. (Not to be pessimistic, but FreeDOS doesn't normally offer much more, by itself, over MS-DOS. Although it does support FAT32, unlike MS-DOS v6 [FAT12/16 only], which can be more efficient for large drives.) You don't technically "need" two different kernels (but maybe you want to compare). In that case, MetaKern may be of interest to you: http://freedos.gds.tuwien.ac.at/freedos/news/technote/184.html https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/util/boot/metakern/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user --- Internet Rex 2.29 * Origin: capcity2.synchro.net - 502/875-8938 (276:10/901) --- Synchronet 3.15a-Linux ListGate 1.3 * Capitol City Online - Frankfort, KY - telnet://capitolcityonline.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
