Re: [Freedos-user] Results of testing fdbasecd.iso dated 08/19/2006

2006-08-19 Thread Blair Campbell
> The first menu (these are all text menus, BTW) > -- > The choices listed are: > > 1) Boot FreeDOS from CD > > Works. > > h) Boot from first harddisk (0x80) > > I fell into this because of the timeout. The next two lines on the > screen are: These are not handled by ISOLinux.

[Freedos-user] Results of testing fdbasecd.iso dated 08/19/2006

2006-08-19 Thread saywhat
Test environment .486DX4-100 w/32MB RAM .ATAPI cdrom drive .500MB hdd (with ~120MB of unused (no partition defined there) space) .The hdd also contains 2 ~60MB primary partitions and a ~250MB extended partition (which contains a few more (logical) partitions). All partition

[Freedos-user] Compatibility EMM386/HIMEM 2.25 New Release

2006-08-19 Thread Michael Devore
Uploaded to ftp://ftp.devoresoftware.com/downloads/emm386/ are the files emmx225.zip, EMM386 2.25 and HIMEM version 3.25 memory manager, mostly executable files; and emms225.zip, source code files. This release of EMM386 and HIMEM works around a bug in some BIOS chips which affects HIMEM, impro

Re: [Freedos-user] "Incorrect DOS version" even with Version=6.22

2006-08-19 Thread tom ehlert
Hello Eric, > I ran your SHARE in DOSEMU. It indeed insists that the > DOS version is 6.22, and it does something bad: > 0439:0adb B452 mov ah,0x52 > 0439:0add CD21 int 0x21 > 0439:0adf 26C6060303FF mov es:[0303],0xff > 0439:0ae5 FA cli > 0439

[Freedos-user] Hopefully last testing distribution

2006-08-19 Thread Blair Campbell
Uploaded to www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.0-Testing/fdbasecd.iso is hopefully the very last testing distribution before 1.0 is released (and that emm386 update to be available soon should come with it). The new features are too many to describe, so you'll have to