Re: [Freedos-user] Kernel question

2006-09-07 Thread Daniel Quintiliani
Quoting Daniel Quintiliani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi FreeDOS team, > > Congrats on the release of FreeDOS 1.0 stable! > > As the maintainer of the GNU/DOS distribution, I had a question to > ask. I noticed that FreeDOS 1.0 was considered "stable," yet the > kernel file on the SourceForge page was

Re: [Freedos-user] Kernel question

2006-09-07 Thread Blair Campbell
I would definitely consider the 2036 kernel to be more stable, but not the one on sourceforge. Get the one from Eric Auer's homepage (google for Auersoft). On 9/7/06, Daniel Quintiliani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi FreeDOS team, > > Congrats on the release of FreeDOS 1.0 stable! > > As the mai

[Freedos-user] Kernel question

2006-09-07 Thread Daniel Quintiliani
Hi FreeDOS team, Congrats on the release of FreeDOS 1.0 stable! As the maintainer of the GNU/DOS distribution, I had a question to ask. I noticed that FreeDOS 1.0 was considered "stable," yet the kernel file on the SourceForge page was called "2036test." Is 2036 a development version, or is

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.0 CD Label Image?

2006-09-07 Thread Blair Campbell
Someone is already working on labels afaik. On 9/7/06, Jim Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > http://aotksc.com/img-bin/fdcd.jpg > > > > I have to get some pens to ink it OC. > > > Feel free to re-use the FreeDOS fish logo > (http://www.freedos.org/freedos/images/logos/

Re: [Freedos-user] my FreeDOS review at OSnews.com

2006-09-07 Thread Marti van Lin
Hi fellow FreeDOS fans, At last my FreeDOS/OpenGEM review has made it to the http://osnews.com alternative OS review contest. Unfortunately it is outdated by now, since it describes 9b "Methusalem". And almost all of the screenshots have been removed :( Maybe they've put it up, because Free

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS v1.0 released - at TGDailey and LinuxDevices

2006-09-07 Thread Jim Hall
Thanks - I added this to the "FreeDOS in the News" page (http://www.freedos.org/freedos/news/2006.html) We're getting lots of press right now. It's amazing! Note to everyone: help spread the word. If your favorite tech web site hasn't posted something about FreeDOS "1.0", email them and (poli

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS v1.0 released - at TGDailey and LinuxDevices

2006-09-07 Thread tomleem
http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/09/05/freedos_10_released/ " An open source project maintaining a free DOS-compatible operating system commonly used in embedded devices such as cash registers has achieved its first-ever major release. ... " http

[Freedos-user] LBAcache crash with EMS enabled under VMware

2006-09-07 Thread Gordon . Schumacher
I just did an install of FD 1.0 in a VMware machine, and if I let it boot with the default option "...EMM386+EMS and SHARE" then when LBAcache is loaded, I get the following: Illegal Instruction occurred CS= IP= SS=CC74 SP=0022 DS= ES= EAX=00090100 EBX= ECX= EDX=FF

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.0 CD Label Image?

2006-09-07 Thread Jim Hall
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > http://aotksc.com/img-bin/fdcd.jpg > > I have to get some pens to ink it OC. Feel free to re-use the FreeDOS fish logo (http://www.freedos.org/freedos/images/logos/freedosfishlogo.png) and the FreeDOS fish (http://www.freedos.org/freedos/images/logos/freedosfish-col

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.0 CD Label Image?

2006-09-07 Thread tekno1911
http://aotksc.com/img-bin/fdcd.jpg I have to get some pens to ink it OC. --chris http://www.aotksc.com/ > Original Message > Subject: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.0 CD Label Image? > From: "Mike Webb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, September 07, 2006 8:46 am > To: freedos-user@

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.0 CD Label Image?

2006-09-07 Thread tekno1911
I can do that Like have a freedos fish superimposed with the word "Freedos 1.0" printed across the CD? Let me know and I'll draw some sketches/ --chris http://www.aotksc.com/ > Original Message > Subject: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.0 CD Label Image? > From: "Mike Webb" <[EMAIL

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.0 CD Label Image?

2006-09-07 Thread Mike Webb
I'm glad to see that FreeDOS 1.0 is out. Thanks to the people who made it happen! As part of my own promotion of FreeDOS 1.0, I plan to make some CDs to distribute. Has anyone worked up an image file (.jpg,.png, .tif, etc.) for a FreeDOS CD label? If so, where is it available? I haven't been able

Re: [Freedos-user] How can i speed up Access to SATA-Disks?

2006-09-07 Thread Gerry Hickman
Hi, I also use Windows setup from network without RIS. I don't use RIS because it requires DHCP, but we use static for the whole network. Under MS-DOS I use SMARTDRV but under FreeDOS I use lbacache. How do you know the SATA drive access is "slow", how did you measure it? Did you swap out an I

Re: [Freedos-user] How can i speed up Access to SATA-Disks?

2006-09-07 Thread Carsten Müller
Hi Robert. RIS is not an option because i have to use another Product-Key for every PC. I solved this With a little Batch script. So i have to do it this way. lbacache is running. But how about SMARTDRV? I read on other sites that it causes some corrupted data on the harddisk. Is that issue solv

Re: [Freedos-user] How can i speed up Access to SATA-Disks?

2006-09-07 Thread Robert Riebisch
Carsten Muller wrote: > I use FreeDOS to start an unattended Windows XP Pro Installation from > a Network-Share. How about RIS? > copy process. Is there another stable way to speed it up? At the lbacache, SMARTDrive, ... Robert Riebisch -- BTTR Software http://www.bttr-software.de/ -

[Freedos-user] How can i speed up Access to SATA-Disks?

2006-09-07 Thread Carsten Muller
Hi there!   I use FreeDOS to start an unattended Windows XP Pro Installation from a Network-Share. The Computers that have to be installed use SATA-Hard-Disks. FreeDOS starts the setup and it copies all needed Installation-Files to a FAT-Partition on the SATA-Disk.   For standard Ultra