[Freedos-user] re: Dual Boot WindowsXP and FreeDOS - Alpha testers needed

2006-02-02 Thread Eric Auer
Hi... > Nearly anything you'd ever want to do in FreeDOS can be done without > going anywhere near a hard drive or it's o/s. It's very easy to create a > bootable FreeDOS CD or bootable FreeDOS data stick... Making USB sticks boot FreeDOS is not actually trivial. And as Mark said, booting from

[Freedos-user] Fwd: Networking question

2006-02-02 Thread Michael Devore
A FreeDOS user e-mailed these questions to me, concerning a subject about which I know very little. If someone who knows more could reply to him with decent information, that would be great. From: Dimitris Dimitris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hello, 1) I installed MS Client 3.0 and the pc freezes w

Re: [Freedos-user] Dual Boot WindowsXP and FreeDOS - Alpha testers needed

2006-02-02 Thread Mark Bailey
Gerry Hickman wrote: Hi Mark, "I just got a brand new computer with WindowsXP. I want to install FreeDOS on that computer but I don't want to change my WindowsXP installation." I've never really understood this. 1. Nearly anything you'd ever want to do in FreeDOS can be done without goin

Re: [Freedos-user] Dual Boot WindowsXP and FreeDOS - Alpha testers needed

2006-02-02 Thread Gerry Hickman
Hi Mark, "I just got a brand new computer with WindowsXP. I want to install FreeDOS on that computer but I don't want to change my WindowsXP installation." I've never really understood this. 1. Nearly anything you'd ever want to do in FreeDOS can be done without going anywhere near a hard d

Re: [Freedos-user] Devload.com and Network Drivers

2006-02-02 Thread Michael Devore
At 08:40 AM 2/2/2006 -0600, Charles Peck wrote: The first two drivers, generic ones-- protman.dos and dis_pkt.dos load up fine, but when I try to load each individual network driver, the entire process outputs an error, some hex, and hangs. I'm not sure whether I have himem.sys and emm386.exe co

Re: [Freedos-user] Devload.com and Network Drivers

2006-02-02 Thread Adam Peart
Or even better, http://www.netbootdisk.com/ - an almost pre-made floppy disk with at least 85 network drivers already on it, and it autodetects which network card you have, and you can set it up to work with ghost or whatever else. The only thing is that it's not freedos ready yet. They're waitin

Re: [Freedos-user] Dual Boot WindowsXP and FreeDOS - Alpha testers needed

2006-02-02 Thread Johnson Lam
On Wed, 01 Feb 2006 21:41:10 -0500, you wrote: Hi Mark, >There is a nice Linux bootable CD which contains GParted >and a few limited tools. I could take that CD, add >FreeDOS and customize it a bit. (It is under the GPL). >It is MUCH smaller than the Mutagenix image I suggest in >the current dr

Re: [Freedos-user] Devload.com and Network Drivers

2006-02-02 Thread Robert Riebisch
Charles Peck wrote: > I'm working on a network boot disk for multiple computers (Ghost), and You know http://www.nu2.nu/bootdisk/network/ ? Robert Riebisch -- BTTR Software http://www.bttr-software.de/ --- This SF.net email is sponsored by:

[Freedos-user] Devload.com and Network Drivers

2006-02-02 Thread Charles Peck
I'm working on a network boot disk for multiple computers (Ghost), and am trying to have the boot disk auto detect and install the network drivers automatically, to save time since I image dozens of computers at once. Right now, I can properly load up the drivers through config.sys, but I have to