Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK another partition problem

2005-07-27 Thread Johnson Lam
On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 19:35:38 +0100, you wrote: Hi Gerry, >Yes, I've been testing it on XEONs and no problems as yet. Did you >notice any other glitches other than the this? No, I try some tricky DOS applications, got the same old result. Stable. >Out of interest, I think you said it would not

[Freedos-user] re: screen reader

2005-07-27 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Mike, as you ask for a screen reader (read screen contents out loud, using e.g. the soundcard), I assume that you are not interested in Braille display support for DOS? I think the easiest free screen reading method for you will be to use BLinux, which uses BrlTTY for general interfacing: BrlT

[Freedos-user] screen reader

2005-07-27 Thread mike coulombe
Hi I am a blind computer user. Does anyone know of a freeware software package for dos. This way speech could be obtained threw the sound card and a external speech unit wouldn't be needed. Thanks Mike. PS incase you don't know what a screen reader is, it makes the computer speak the contanc

Re: [Freedos-user] VOL Command hangs HP Pavilion with EMM386

2005-07-27 Thread Michael Devore
At 12:22 AM 7/28/2005 +, Mark Bailey wrote: Help! How do I start to debug this?!?! This is the same machine which has FDISK overwriting the partition table whenever it is run with EMM386. Exclude all high memory via X=A000-EFFF and add NOEMS option. Those two options only, unless your

[Freedos-user] VOL Command hangs HP Pavilion with EMM386

2005-07-27 Thread kd4d
Hello all: OK, now that I've at least identified the FDISK problem, and solved the DIR divide by zero problem, I need to work on why FreeDOS doesn't boot and/or run stably on many computers. Fortunately, I have the Haunted HP Pavilion. I have a repeateable problem with the VOL command built into

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS kicks some serious Ass!

2005-07-27 Thread Gerry Hickman
Carl William Spitzer IV wrote: The only thing you need windows for is word I'd say that's an over-simplification, but best not to get into Windows vs Linux on here. I'm hoping to do some "head to head" comparisons in the coming months of Windows vs Linux, both client and server, and would l

Re: [Freedos-user] Is there a maximum partition size in the FreeDOS kernel?

2005-07-27 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 12:38, Arkady V.Belousov wrote: > Hi! > > 22-Июл-2005 10:18 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carl William Spitzer IV) wrote to > FreeDOS : > > >> kn> What's the size limit on a partition for the FreeDOS kernel? > >> 2 Gb for FAT16 partition, 2 Tb for the FAT32 partition. But all > >>

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS kicks some serious Ass!

2005-07-27 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 13:54, Gerry Hickman wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Yeah, some people just don't like WindowsXP. It's hard to > > buy a new computer without it installed, though! > > This is true, and this is why Microsoft's dominance is perpetuated. The > big OEMs collude with Mi

Re: [Freedos-user] FDISK MBR and FORMAT questions

2005-07-27 Thread Carl William Spitzer IV
On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 13:01, Bernd Blaauw > any valid MBR starts with AA55, so if no AA55, FDISK /MBR might be done > automatically. Am I correct, Eric? > Any 'dump MBR to file' programs available so we could verify what the > contents of MBR is on an empty (unpartitioned probably?) harddisk?

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK another partition problem

2005-07-27 Thread Gerry Hickman
Johnson Lam wrote: You're right. I'm just want to "TEST", to see if FreeDOS can work on Xeon server grade machine. It's works despite of few glitches. Yes, I've been testing it on XEONs and no problems as yet. Did you notice any other glitches other than the this? Out of interest, I think y