Re: [Freedos-user] Legal distribution of GNU programs

2005-04-13 Thread Charlie Wilkes
Could you email your disk to me or post it somewhere? I would like to see what you did. I have a CD with DOS USB support and it works, but I just threw it together for a particular situation and would like to create a better one. Charlie --- Johnson Lam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'

[Freedos-user] Legal distribution of GNU programs

2005-04-13 Thread Johnson Lam
Hi, I've created a one-disk FreeDOS bootable floppy 'motto hairu' USB driver. It have some GNU program inside, since I know little about how to mess with it, I need advise from the gentlemen here. What kind of document should I put on the disk? Can I zipped them to save to the last byte? Thanks.

[Freedos-user] RE: Freedos-user digest, Vol 1 #430 - 4 msgs

2005-04-13 Thread Schumacher, Gordon
# Message: 4 # From: Eric Auer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> # Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 23:14:34 +0200 (MEST) # To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net # Subject: [Freedos-user] Methods against harddisk password troubles # Reply-To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net # # # Hi, as neither harddisk makers nor B

Re: [Freedos-user] Dual booting Linux and FreeDOS

2005-04-13 Thread Kristaps Kaupe
> Is it possible to have a dual boot system (Linux and FreeDOS) using grub or > grub4dos? From what I've seen from searching the web, a lot of people are > having trouble with this kind of setup. Has there been any progress on this Yes, it should be possible. Ok, I haven't tried this, but in theor

[Freedos-user] Methods against harddisk password troubles

2005-04-13 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, as neither harddisk makers nor BIOS makers really seem to care about users getting locked out of their own disks, you might want to have a look at this article: http://www.heise.de/ct/english/05/08/172/ Years ago, IDE / ATA harddisks started to support a password lock feature, but nobody rea