Re: [Freedos-user] tested X-FDISK

2006-07-10 Thread Norbert Remmel
Did someone try PloP Bootmanager. Looks good from its description and it will soon be able to boot from usb, too. http://www.plop.at/bootmanager_en.html Rgds Norbert Florian Xaver schrieb: > Hi! > > I had to make a new partition and to install a bootmanager. I tested > some...and found X-FDISK

Re: [Freedos-user] [OT] BIOS mounts USB stick as A:

2006-07-10 Thread Norbert Remmel
That works for all newer bioses that have usb boot support. Rgds Norbert. Florian Xaver schrieb: > Hi again, > > the BIOS also mounts my extern harddisc (160GB, FAT32) to drive C:\! Yeah! > > Bye > Flo > > > > - > Using Tom

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS "1.0" in the news...

2006-07-10 Thread Jim Hall
Guys, This discussion about how Windows works has moved well beyond the original thread that involved FreeDOS. Can you guys take this thread off-list? Just trying to keep the signal-to-noise ratio fairly high here. -jh Gerry Hickman wrote: > Hi Arkady, > > >> GH> Are you claiming they

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS "1.0" in the news...

2006-07-10 Thread Ralf A. Quint
At 02:48 PM 7/10/2006, Gerry Hickman wrote: >All I was saying was that DOS 6.22 startup files are different to WfW >3.11 startup files. The exact differences may never be known due to >Microsoft's failure to embrace open-source. What startup files are you talking about? No Windows 1.x to 3.x (inc

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS "1.0" in the news...

2006-07-10 Thread Gerry Hickman
Hi Arkady, > GH> Are you claiming they're identical or not? > This is _one program_! Or you wish to say, that FreeDOS 2035 isn't > FreeDOS, because kernel.sys binary-non-identical to FreeDOS 2034? OK, but I don't agree with your conclusion here. As you point out, different Kernel versions

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS "1.0" in the news...

2006-07-10 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 10-Июл-2006 21:06 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gerry Hickman) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: GH> Yes, but is it not the case that the startup files are different >>> Startup files are same. >> GH> Can you clarify what you mean here? How do you define "same"? >> Identical or newe

Re: [Freedos-user] Russian by UTF-8 in FreeDOS?

2006-07-10 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 9-Июл-2006 23:39 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aitor Santamarэa) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: AS> Here I am sending to you the links to the binary utilities, (both exec AS> and source) with the latest versions. Both have accompaining AS> information files. [...] Thank you. --

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS "1.0" in the news...

2006-07-10 Thread Gerry Hickman
Hi Arkady, >>> GH> Yes, but is it not the case that the startup files are different >> Startup files are same. > GH> Can you clarify what you mean here? How do you define "same"? > > Identical or newer versions. Are you claiming they're identical or not? If not, then they're not the same

Re: [Freedos-user] [OT] BIOS mounts USB stick as A:

2006-07-10 Thread Florian Xaver
Hi again, the BIOS also mounts my extern harddisc (160GB, FAT32) to drive C:\! Yeah! Bye Flo - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technolo

[Freedos-user] [OT] BIOS mounts USB stick as A:

2006-07-10 Thread Florian Xaver
Hi, one month ago I bought a new notebook. Now I am installing DOS and found out, after trying USBASPI.SYS without success, that an USB stick (f.e. SONY) is mounted as A:! No driver is needed! This is a very cool!! (BIOS is very basic, no settings can be changed) Bye Flo -- Florian Xaver

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS, Borland's current status and Borland's DOS software

2006-07-10 Thread Wesley Parish
On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 05:30, Jim Hall wrote: > Wesley Parish wrote: > > There was a thread on getting writers and maintainers of old retired DOS > > software to release it as Open Source and I've lost track of it, > > otherwise I would be continuing it. My bad. > > > > What I want to ask is, has any

Re: [Freedos-user] tested X-FDISK

2006-07-10 Thread Michael Vogl
Am Montag, 10. Juli 2006 00:40 schrieb Florian Xaver: > Hi! > > I had to make a new partition and to install a bootmanager. I tested > some...and found X-FDISK (someone wrote at this list about it). > I think it is really cool: > > (1)very very easy to install the bootmanager and to use the program