Re: [Freedos-user] Where is my 1mb of xms memory?

2005-08-09 Thread Michael Devore
At 08:53 PM 8/8/2005 +0200, Bernd Blaauw wrote: MS HIMEM (+FreeDOS EMM386.EXE) hardly takes any XMS. EMM386 takes 223KB of XMS. Takes UMBs from extended memory as well as DMA area and miscellany. As would be expected. --- SF.Net email

Re: [Freedos-user] PCI audio cards

2005-08-09 Thread Blair Campbell
> I'm curious about this, "DOS-Compatible" means "SoundBlaster compatible > API"? I mean PCI cards that do not natively support DOS but will with available drivers (distributable or non-distributable, they can be downloaded for the user if they are non-distributable). ---

Re: [Freedos-user] Where is my 1mb of xms memory?

2005-08-09 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Conventional 640K18K 622K Upper 128K10K 118K Reserved 256K 256K 0K Extended (XMS) 3,328K 1,000K 2,328K Total memory4,352K 1,284K 3,068K Lo

[Freedos-user] OpenGEM GUI updated

2005-08-09 Thread Shane M. Coughlan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - - OpenGEM Release 4 Update 4 now available (9/8/05) OpenGEM Core, Complete and Experimental have now been updated. OpenGEM Release 4 Update 4 patches are available from http://gem.shaneland.co.uk/updates.html, and you can download the full versions

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK issue with Windows Build

2005-08-09 Thread Kenneth J. Davis
Gerry Hickman wrote: Hi Bernd, ... *kernel 2034, 2035, 2035A and the CVS kernel Sorry, I don't understnad. It looks like four different files (?) and I can't work out how these numbers relate to the directory listing on the fdos.org/kernel website. 4 different versions, 2034, 2035, and 20

Re: [Freedos-user] PCI audio cards

2005-08-09 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Hi there, Blair Campbell escribió: Hi. I am reqesting that everyone with a PCI audio card that needs DOS-compatible drivers to run and has those DOS-compatible drivers available to send me the PCIsleep output for "pcisleep /q0401". This will help me to add PCI audio card detection to my ISOs a

[Freedos-user] PCI cards for autodetection process

2005-08-09 Thread Blair Campbell
Similar to the request concerning PCI audio cards, I would also appreciate anyone who can send me the PCIsleep /l output of cards that work well with Scitech's UNIVBE (http://www.scitechsoft.com/products/ent/free_titles.html) or with other downloadable drivers. The same goes for DOS compatible PCI

[Freedos-user] PCI audio cards

2005-08-09 Thread Blair Campbell
Hi. I am reqesting that everyone with a PCI audio card that needs DOS-compatible drivers to run and has those DOS-compatible drivers available to send me the PCIsleep output for "pcisleep /q0401". This will help me to add PCI audio card detection to my ISOs and make the installation of FreeDOS ev

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK issue with Windows Build

2005-08-09 Thread Gerry Hickman
Bernd Blaauw wrote: just copy IO.SYS, MSDOS.SYS and COMMAND.COM to C:, then do SYS A: C: /BOOTONLY /OEM:MS and reboot system. Then check if MSDOS boots first, and only when it does, install Windows. I ran a similar test today, and got an unexpected result. Using standard FreeDOS: 1. Booted u

Re: [Freedos-user] Posts not showing up?

2005-08-09 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Same happened to me last night too... Glad to read this, I am becoming an anti-spam paranoid... Aitor Gerry Hickman escribió: Hi, Since this Saturday, my posts are not showing up on this list until I re-post them about three times? There's no bounce message, they just disappear... --

[Freedos-user] Posts not showing up?

2005-08-09 Thread Gerry Hickman
Hi, Since this Saturday, my posts are not showing up on this list until I re-post them about three times? There's no bounce message, they just disappear... -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software C

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK issue with Windows Build

2005-08-09 Thread Gerry Hickman
Hi Bernd, just get the 'unofficial'/'development' versions of components. *SYS 3.6 from www.fdos.org/kernel (sys.dev.com) OK, I got this one from the hyperlink on the front page. *kernel 2034, 2035, 2035A and the CVS kernel Sorry, I don't understnad. It looks like four different files (?)

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK issue with Windows Build

2005-08-09 Thread Gerry Hickman
Bernd Blaauw wrote: just copy IO.SYS, MSDOS.SYS and COMMAND.COM to C:, then do SYS A: C: /BOOTONLY /OEM:MS and reboot system. Then check if MSDOS boots first, and only when it does, install Windows. I ran a similar test today, and got an unexpected result. Using standard FreeDOS: 1. Booted u

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK issue with Windows Build

2005-08-09 Thread Gerry Hickman
Hi Bernd, I've printed this out, I think I understand the important points and I'm happy to run some tests, but can you clarify the exact files I need to download. I currently have the latest "stable" kernel, command, and sys files. My kernel says it's 1.1.35 and my sys says it's v3.2 - I want

[Freedos-user] Posts not showing up?

2005-08-09 Thread Gerry Hickman
Hi, Since this Saturday, my posts are not showing up on this list until I re-post them about three times? There's no bounce message, they just disappear... -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Con

[Freedos-user] guide

2005-08-09 Thread Eric Twose
Hi folks, This is probably off-topic, so please ignore with my apologies. There's a screenshot of guide at http://www.anchor92.freeserve.co.uk/guide.htm . Guide is a 32-bit multitasking operating system I've been developing, an acronym for graphical user interface desktop environment. It run

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK issue with Windows Build

2005-08-09 Thread Bernd Blaauw
This time, I still get TWO items on the Windows NT/2000 boot loader menu 1. Windows 2000 2. MS-DOS (as opposed to "Previous Operating System on C:") I can confirm this: strangely upgrading from DOS 6.22, Win2000setup doesn't finish and I get a spontaneous reboot during last phase of setup.

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK issue with Windows Build

2005-08-09 Thread Gerry Hickman
Bernd Blaauw wrote: just copy IO.SYS, MSDOS.SYS and COMMAND.COM to C:, then do SYS A: C: /BOOTONLY /OEM:MS and reboot system. Then check if MSDOS boots first, and only when it does, install Windows. I ran a similar test today, and got an unexpected result. Using standard FreeDOS: 1. Booted u