Re: [Freedos-user] GUI

2005-10-14 Thread Jesse Petre
I did, and thank you!On 10/14/05, Owen Rudge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I used the floppie disks for Beta 8.  I've noted a Seal2L directory under> fdos, which has an install.exe in it.  I had to find (on google) and run a> cwsdpmi.exe in> order to install seal, but I got it working. SEAL 2.0 Lamb

Re: [Freedos-user] GUI

2005-10-14 Thread Owen Rudge
I used the floppie disks for Beta 8. I've noted a Seal2L directory under fdos, which has an install.exe in it. I had to find (on google) and run a cwsdpmi.exe in order to install seal, but I got it working. SEAL 2.0 Lambda is quite old now... SEAL 2.0.11 is the latest version (and is itself

Re: [Freedos-user] Conventional Memory

2005-10-14 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Hi, Jesse Petre escribió: Eric & Bernd: Thanks for the info, I think I'll stick with beta 8 until the new one comes out (1.0 correct?). Will the new version be available on floppies like the betas? No, no 1.0 yet (http://wiki.fdos.org/Main/Todo_1_0). Aitor ---

Re: [Freedos-user] GUI

2005-10-14 Thread Jesse Petre
I used the floppie disks for Beta 8.  I've noted a Seal2L directory under fdos, which has an install.exe in it.  I had to find (on google) and run a cwsdpmi.exe in order to install seal, but I got it working. It's a lot cooler than I was expecting :) Thanks!  On 10/14/05, Blair Campbell <[EMAIL PRO

Re: [Freedos-user] GUI

2005-10-14 Thread Jesse Petre
I used the floppie disks for Beta 8.  I've noted a Seal2L directory under fdos, which has an install.exe in it.  I had to find (on google) and run a cwsdpmi.exe in order to install seal, but I got it working. It's a lot cooler than I was expecting :) Thanks!  On 10/14/05, Blair Campbell <[EMAIL PRO

Re: [Freedos-user] Conventional Memory

2005-10-14 Thread Jesse Petre
Hello all,   Bernd: I do not have a modem or network card, just a floppy drive in it.  It's just an old thinkpad I play around with.  Diego & Arkady: I'm not even really sure what the settings in config.sys do, I was just searching on google for ways to gain more conventional memory, and copied som

Re: [Freedos-user] GUI

2005-10-14 Thread Blair Campbell
> I also noted during the installation that there is a gui disk. How do I > launch the GUI? Which installation medium did you use? Which distro? If you installed the GEM GUI, you can usually just change to c:\ and type gem to start it. If you installed SEAL2, you would normally change to c:\s

Re: [Freedos-user] Conventional Memory

2005-10-14 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Салям! 13-Окт-2005 23:49 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jesse Petre) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: JP> LOADHIGH C:\FDOS\BIN\CTMOUSE.EXE Not need. JP> dos=high,noumb -^ Why? JP> FILES =100 JP> BUFFERS=20 JP> FCBS=4,4 files 40 fcbs 1 -

Re: [Freedos-user] re: Conventional Memory

2005-10-14 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Eric Auer schreef: - install from 2 "base" binary disks (base source disks are not needed) and you have beta 9 This didn't work for Jesse, but currently he has a usable (though very outdated) FreeDOS on his laptop which has no cdrom. - let the installer open a cd-rom image which you copi

[Freedos-user] re: Conventional Memory

2005-10-14 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, we have various categories of software: Beta 9 is only "base". Beta 8 is VERY outdated but is all categories. We have a new CD-ROM with all categories which I call the "Blair FreeDOS distro" (100 MB). You can install beta 9 and the Blair distro without CD-ROM, though: For that, you boot from t

RE: [Freedos-user] Conventional Memory

2005-10-14 Thread Diego Rodriguez
> Here's my autoexec.bat: > ... > LOADHIGH C:\FDOS\BIN\CTMOUSE.EXE > You don't need to load high CTMOUSE it'll load high if possible. > Here's my config.sys: > dos=high,noumb > device=C:\FDOS\BIN\HIMEM.EXE > DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE NOEMS I=B000-B7FF > > FILES =100 > BUFFERS=20 > FCBS=4,

[Freedos-user] GUI

2005-10-14 Thread Jesse Petre
Me again, I also noted during the installation that there is a gui disk.  How do I launch the GUI? Thanks! -Jesse

Re: [Freedos-user] Conventional Memory

2005-10-14 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Jesse Petre schreef: I installed the command.com from http://fdos.org/kernel/cmdxms.HEAD.zip , and it increased my conventional mem to 606k, thanks a lot! Also, mem /c returns: Invalid parameter - /C I'm running FreeDOS Beta 8 too, i

Re: [Freedos-user] Conventional Memory

2005-10-14 Thread Jesse Petre
Thanks for your help everyone. I installed the command.com from http://fdos.org/kernel/cmdxms.HEAD.zip , and it increased my conventional mem to 606k, thanks a lot! Also, mem /c returns: Invalid parameter - /C I'm running FreeDOS Beta 8 too, in case that matters.  This is on my old thinkpad, which

Re: [Freedos-user] Conventional Memory

2005-10-14 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Blair Campbell schreef: Try using "dosdata=umb". This will load the above values into UMBs, I think... or something like that. In any case, it does something to free up memory, and is different than dos=high/umb I don't know if that works without DOS=UMB (or in Jesse's case: DOS=HIGH,UMB).