I have a old Dell laptop that was originally XP that now is
tri-boot. I have FreeDos 1.3 RC5, XP, and even Linux.
In order to do this you cannot simply install everything normally,
at least as far as I know. Feel free to correct me if I am wrong here.
Here is the steps that I found that works:
First wipe the drive that you want to use, then using fdisk setup a
partition for FreeDOS and another for the other operating system as
an extended partition. Format and install FreeDOS on the first
partition. Do nothing for the second partition. Leave it alone
until you have installed FreeDOS installed andworking.
Once it is installed and working, install the Linux distro you want
and tell it to setup and use the second partition you had set up in
fdisk.
This should allow you to use both Linux and FreeDOS together.
Notice: Order of install matters! If you installed Linux, then
installed freeDOS you will need to update your grub to see and use
the new FreeDOS system which can be a pest.
I hope this was helpful.
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Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2022 15:33:22 +0100
From: andrea...@tiscali.it
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Il 26.01.2022 00:39 Jerome Shidel ha scritto:
>> On Jan 25, 2022,
at 4:16 PM, andrea...@tiscali.it [1] wrote:
>>
>> OK, it's an old
annoing question:I have a laptop with linux installed and I created
another dos / fat 32 partition where I installed freedos 1.3.
(before
installing freedos I activated C:ms-dos with part.exe).
>> OK Freedos,
but disappears Linux MBR, and I can't anymore access linux
although I
have grub installed.
>> With GAG cd live you see linux but it is not
loaded due to problems in the MBR.
>> The only way to repair the MBR and
log in again in linux was to use the BOOT REPAIR live cd.
>> Or another
way to solve the problem?
>> Thanks,
>> andrea
> During installation,
the installer creates two backups and stores them in C:FreeDOS as
BOOT.MBR and BOOT.BSS. The MBR is created by FDISK when it is
told to
update the boot code. The second is created by the SYS command. You
should be able to use FDISK to restore the MBR.
> There is an excellent
free DOS utility called MBRTOOL. It is not open source and has some
other distribution restrictions. But, it is free and can be legally
distributed as-is. Do to those restrictions it cannot be
included with
the FreeDOS release. But, you can grab a mirrored copy from my
website
at https://fd.lod.bz/redist/disk/MBRtool/ [4] v1.x is much
smaller than
v2.x. But, both work really well. It is a great tool to have laying
around for emergencies.
> :-)
> Jerome
> Thank you for your interest,
I will try to be more careful when I install freedos next time
>
>>
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From: Jerome Shidel <jer...@shidel.net>
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Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Watcom compiler on FreeDOS 1.3 RC5
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Hello Fabian,
I just did several tests and am unable to replicate the issue
you are having. More information is needed.
> On Jan 26, 2022, at 3:32 AM, Fabian Boucsein
<fabian.boucs...@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> Dear Freedos users,
>
> i recently installed a base installation of FreeDOS 1.3 RC5
using the
> FullUSB edition. After that i tried to install the Watcom compiler
> with fdimples.
How did you manage that?
USB devices are not "Plug and Play" in DOS. You would need to
have the drive already plugged in when the system boots. That
implies you booted from the USB stick. When you do that, the
system has know idea how or where to place any things. You would
need to set some configuration information to be able to install
any packages. The installer does that a bunch of stuff during
installation to permit package installs. But, those are
temporary changes only active while the installer is running.
> A lot of error messages appeared on the screen and
> in the end only 13 files or so were copied to the harddisk. I
checked
> the md5sum of the downloaded ZIP file and it matched the one
on the
> FreeDOS website.
the SUM was good for the download of FreeDOS or the Download to
the WATCOM package?
>
> Is that error allready known to you or is it just my system
that behaves
> differently for whatever reason?
What Errors?
>
> After installing the Watcom from the IBIBLIO FreeDOS archive what
> do i need to configure the compiler so that i can use it?
>
> Many greetings,
> Fabian
>
Jerome
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Hi,
On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 2:33 AM Fabian Boucsein
<fabian.boucs...@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> After installing the Watcom from the IBIBLIO FreeDOS archive what
> do i need to configure the compiler so that i can use it?
set WATCOM=%RAMDRIVE%:\watcom19
set INCLUDE=%WATCOM%\H
set EDPATH=%WATCOM%\EDDAT
set WIPFC=%WATCOM%\WIPFC
path %WATCOM%\BINW;%PATH%
REM ... optional ...
REM if "%DOS4G%"=="" set DOS4G=quiet
REM ren dos4gw.exe *.ex
REM copy /b cwstub.exe dos4gw.*
This may also help:
* http://www.freedos.org/books/get-started/june25-c-programming.html
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