Re: [Freedos-user] Results of testing fdbasecd.iso dated...

2006-08-21 Thread Blair Campbell
Those are more likely ISOLinux issues, and most users will probably not be using PART (which seems to interpret ISOLinux somehow as a virus, which would somewhat seem like a PART bug to me at least). On 8/21/06, Arkady V.Belousov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > 21-Авг-2006 14:07 [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [Freedos-user] corrupted directory sector from using SMARTDRV 6.22 with FreeDOS?

2006-08-21 Thread Michael Devore
At 02:50 PM 8/21/2006 -0600, Eddie wrote: >I was really hoping that this problem had been silently fixed by >all of the other work that has been done recently. Doesn't look VDS-related, the executable only uses a couple of common calls there. Not much more I can tell you. Maybe the origina

Re: [Freedos-user] corrupted directory sector from using SMARTDRV 6.22 with FreeDOS?

2006-08-21 Thread Michael Devore
At 02:50 PM 8/21/2006 -0600, Eddie wrote: > I was really hoping that this problem had been silently fixed by >all of the other work that has been done recently. I was disappointed >when the same problem cropped up again - because that means more work. > >So far I haven't done the work to iso

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

2006-08-21 Thread Michael Devore
At 09:37 AM 8/21/2006 +0200, Norbert Remmel wrote: >During testing I discovered a bug concerning STR-ALT-DEL usage. >When pressing these keys, freedos crashes with invalid opcode outputting >some memory addresses and registers. Eric made a change suggestion which seems to clear up the problem with

Re: [Freedos-user] Bad or non existant command interpreter

2006-08-21 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 21-Авг-2006 21:21 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Monahan) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: CM> I've installed FreeDOS on the first 250MB partition of my hard drive, it CM> works in dosemu, CM> and I can run Free COM in Windows CM> but when I try to boot to it from LILO it passes over to

Re: [Freedos-user] Results of testing fdbasecd.iso dated...

2006-08-21 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 21-Авг-2006 14:07 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: >>sn> Editorial comment: >>sn>Obviously, some of these results are not ideal. >> What you want from FreeDOS in given case? sn>What do *I* want? Nothing. I'm just testing the rele

Re: [Freedos-user] Results of testing fdbasecd.iso dated...

2006-08-21 Thread saywhat
Arkady V.Belousov wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: >sn> h) Boot from first harddisk (0x80) >sn> I fell into this because of the timeout. The next two lines on the >sn> screen are: >sn> Booting from local disk... >sn> Virus!!! > > This may be message from BIOS (if there i

Re: [Freedos-user] corrupted directory sector from using SMARTDRV 6.22 with FreeDOS?

2006-08-21 Thread saywhat
Aitor Santamar?a wrote: >2006/8/21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> This problem occurs when using SMARTDRV.EXE (with write caching >> enabled) from MSDOS 6.22 with FreeDOS. Replacing either avoids the >> problem. > >Well, thanks indeed for the reports, perhaps you could tell us too if

[Freedos-user] Bad or non existant command interpreter

2006-08-21 Thread Chris Monahan
hey - I hear this is the place I've installed FreeDOS on the first 250MB partition of my hard drive, it works in dosemu, and I can run Free COM in Windowsbut when I try to boot to it from LILO it passes over to the kernel (I think) and tells me :"Bad or non existant command interpreterenter full co

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

2006-08-21 Thread Michael Devore
At 09:37 AM 8/21/2006 +0200, Norbert Remmel wrote: >During testing I discovered a bug concerning STR-ALT-DEL usage. >When pressing these keys, freedos crashes with invalid opcode outputting >some memory addresses and registers. >As I remember this wasn't like this using earlier versions of >himem/

Re: [Freedos-user] corrupted directory sector from using SMARTDRV 6.22 with FreeDOS?

2006-08-21 Thread Michael Devore
At 05:15 AM 8/21/2006 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >This problem occurs when using SMARTDRV.EXE (with write caching >enabled) from MSDOS 6.22 with FreeDOS. Replacing either avoids the >problem. SMARTDRV is pretty particular on some machines. I just pulled the following from the Microsof

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

2006-08-21 Thread Michael Devore
At 06:50 PM 8/21/2006 +0200, Norbert Remmel wrote: > You should also be prepared to send/sponsor this network card to > >>> I really would like to do but my boss would cut my head off if I would > > AT> That's just another way to solve the problem :D > > AT> SCNR ;) > > > > What is SCNR?

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

2006-08-21 Thread Norbert Remmel
You should also be prepared to send/sponsor this network card to >>> I really would like to do but my boss would cut my head off if I would > AT> That's just another way to solve the problem :D > AT> SCNR ;) > > What is SCNR? Don't know either. But he is right... Cutting my head off wou

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

2006-08-21 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 21-Авг-2006 18:08 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andre Tertling) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: >>> You should also be prepared to send/sponsor this network card to >> I really would like to do but my boss would cut my head off if I would AT> That's just another way to solve the problem :D

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

2006-08-21 Thread Andre Tertling
Norbert Remmel schrieb: >> You should also be prepared to send/sponsor this network card to >> Michael > > I really would like to do but my boss would cut my head off if I would > do so as you surely can imagine ;-) That's just another way to solve the problem :D SCNR ;) Best regards, Andre -

Re: [Freedos-user] corrupted directory sector from using SMARTDRV 6.22 with FreeDOS?

2006-08-21 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hi Eddie, 2006/8/21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > This problem occurs when using SMARTDRV.EXE (with write caching > enabled) from MSDOS 6.22 with FreeDOS. Replacing either avoids the > problem. Well, thanks indeed for the reports, perhaps you could tell us too if you're using EMM38

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

2006-08-21 Thread Norbert Remmel
Hi all, But there are still some systems, where the machine completely stops responding when initializing the network. >>> some network clients don't work if loaded into UMB memory; they also >>> don't work with MSDOS emm386 > >> The network client isn't loaded high at all. >> And if yo

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

2006-08-21 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 19-Авг-2006 21:31 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: sn> h) Boot from first harddisk (0x80) sn> I fell into this because of the timeout. The next two lines on the sn> screen are: sn> Booting from local disk... sn> Virus!!! This ma

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

2006-08-21 Thread tom ehlert
Hello Norbert, >>> But there are still some systems, where the machine completely stops >>> responding when initializing the network. >> some network clients don't work if loaded into UMB memory; they also >> don't work with MSDOS emm386 > The network client isn't loaded high at all. > And if you

[Freedos-user] corrupted directory sector from using SMARTDRV 6.22 with FreeDOS?

2006-08-21 Thread saywhat
This problem occurs when using SMARTDRV.EXE (with write caching enabled) from MSDOS 6.22 with FreeDOS. Replacing either avoids the problem. I haven't pinned it down yet but the problem seems to occur with more than just one pgm. I've seen it when installing UKA17X2 (i.e. UKA_PPP), A189GPL

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

2006-08-21 Thread Norbert Remmel
>> But there are still some systems, where the machine completely stops >> responding when initializing the network. > some network clients don't work if loaded into UMB memory; they also > don't work with MSDOS emm386 The network client isn't loaded high at all. And if you use umbpci everything w

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

2006-08-21 Thread tom ehlert
Hello Norbert, > But there are still some systems, where the machine completely stops > responding when initializing the network. some network clients don't work if loaded into UMB memory; they also don't work with MSDOS emm386 > So, for your testing I applied for a fully functional test version

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

2006-08-21 Thread Norbert Remmel
Hi again, > 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. Michael, thanks a lot for the new himem/emm386. I tested this latest version this