Hi Johnson:
My attempts have been very successful. The FreeDOS installer
has problems if the WindowsXP partition is FAT32...it insists
on writing a boot sector to C: no matter what. Just don't
use the installer and SYS the disk manually and copy files
over.
The procedure I wrote up is a bit MS-
On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 09:03:58 -0400, you wrote:
Hi Mark,
>You can install FreeDOS on a new computer and have it dual-boot
>with Windows XP as well. This doesn't harm the WindowsXP
>installation at all and doesn't require re-installing
>WindowsXP. You just put FreeDOS on a trivial amount
>of disk
Never load a driver, shell, or application before HIMEM and EMM386. They
are fundamental first loaders as they configure your basic memory
situation. That SHELL command has got to come later in CONFIG.SYS. The
rest should be fine, although I'd still stick them afterwards for form's sake.
Be
Good day all:
After some help and advice from Eric Auer and Michael Devore,
I have NTFS4DOS working and loading high with FreeDOS!
However, I have been unable to get it to load high with EMM386.
I am using the latest development kernel, emm204x, and the latest
UMBPCI.
MEM reports 213K conventio
Jose Antonio Senna wrote:
It did appear yesterday on this list:
sure whether Win98's COMMAND.COM can be configured to default to insert
mode instead of overwrite.
I do not have the MS-DOS version which comes with Win98, but MS-DOS 5 can
be so configured by using
DOSKEY /INSERT
or
DO
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef:
Hi All:
OK, I'm confused. I want to try to get NTFS4DOS working from a
bootable CD and loaded into high memory (using DEVICEHIGH).
My first attempt was a failure and resulted in an "out of
memory" error. I forget the exact message.
Despite me also sending a CC to t
You can install FreeDOS on a new computer and have it dual-boot
with Windows XP as well. This doesn't harm the WindowsXP
installation at all and doesn't require re-installing
WindowsXP. You just put FreeDOS on a trivial amount
of disk space at the end of the drive.
I worked out a detailed proce
Hi Michael:
Thanks. I took that straight out of the documentation.
I need to check that boot disk and make sure I caught
that. Could have been the problem. And, I do know
better! :-)
Mark
> At 11:08 PM 7/10/2005 +, Mark Bailey wrote:
>
> >SWITCHES=/F
> >DOS=HIGH,UMB
> >DEVICEHIGH=a:\HI
