[Freedos-user] ODIN 0.70

2004-08-03 Thread Leke Lapinkangas
Hi I finally got round to getting FreeDOS - ODIN 0.70 onto a floppy ready to install. Then I got the... Edit config.sys & autoexec.bat files so that they contain your specific settings then delete file fdconfig.sys ...message. I managed to open them both in FreeDOS Edit, but I don't know what

[Freedos-user] Restoring XP bootsector (yes, I goofed up!)

2004-08-03 Thread Rakhesh Sasidharan
Ok, so I goofed up big time!!! Time to ask for HAAALLLP!!! :) I guess I was sleepy, or maybe the instructions really weren't clear -- I dunno -- when I went through the installation program yesterday, FreeDOS installed itself fine and all, and towards the end asked me whether it should install th

[Freedos-user] Re: Serial port card

2004-08-03 Thread John Price
On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 10:44:44PM +0200, Eric Auer wrote: > > I assume that given the right BIOS CMOS setup the PCI card will > simply work with all DOS programs. True, but how does a DOS program know what IRQ and port to use? Can it use one of the predefined ones(4,3,4,3 & 2e8,3e8,2f8,3f8) or

[Freedos-user] (no subject)

2004-08-03 Thread John Price
I have a machine that was using FreeDOS and the on board serial port as a terminal. The on board serial port died, and I need to put a serial PCI card in the machine (there are only PCI slots). Has anyone used a PCI serial card with FreeDOS with success? I have no experience with using PCI cards

Re: [Freedos-user] Bootable FreeDOS

2004-08-03 Thread Rakhesh Sasidharan
On Tue, 03 Aug 2004 03:37:37 -0400, "Steve Nickolas - Using Windoze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Last version I personally released was 0.6. 0.7 followed that. It's a > one-disk binary-only installation of FreeDOS, pretty much the complete > base set. I see. Thanks for clarfiying that. :)

Re: [Freedos-user] Bootable FreeDOS

2004-08-03 Thread Steve Nickolas - Using Windoze
Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: Hmm, what's ODIN supposed to be? Saw a mention of it on the main page, gotta check it out. :) But hey Steve! I was trying to download FreeDOS beta9rc5 and found a version of ODIN 0.7 updated April 20, 2004. Here's the link: http://freedos.wermlandsdata.com/files/distribu