Re: [Freedos-user] Arachne Stopped Working

2006-10-27 Thread tomleem
Hi Lester, MS> How can MyIP/IP_Address and RemIP/GateWay be MS> the same? Le> Thanks... The final version should be... The pleasure was mine, your correction spares my own mental sanity! ;) Salutations, Avatar.GIF Michel Samson (/alias DOSInte

Re: [Freedos-user] installing freedos on secondary drive

2006-10-27 Thread Arkady V.Belousov
Hi! 26-Окт-2006 21:32 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (tom ehlert) wrote to Daniel Fodor : te> you can't boot FreeDOS from the second disk You can, also as any other OS. If BIOS supports disks swapping (ie. there is option in BIOS setup, which selects, which disk should be bootable). te> AFAIK it can on

Re: [Freedos-user] Cleaning up the ibiblio archive

2006-10-27 Thread Jim Hall
Because I really hate throwing away old stuff (which is why my basement looks the way it does) and because the entire FreeDOS archive at ibiblio is "only" 4.6GB (not very big) I decided _not_ to delete the old distros. However, I did clean up the 'distributions' directory: http://www.ibiblio.or

Re: [Freedos-user] Boot sector not standard? [Solved]

2006-10-27 Thread Marton
Hi Eric, Many, many thanks for looking at this. I am amazed of the results :) Please tell me what is the problem of my fix... I am using a 6.4gig drive for testing this and it seems to work... You mean that if I use a bigger drive (8+gig) I would be screwing it up? Any chances of a permanent fix

Re: [Freedos-user] Boot sector not standard? [Solved]

2006-10-27 Thread tom ehlert
Hello Eric, thanks for the analysis. a) so PROT is good enough to keep Mom from using the computer if Dad is out of house, but not a bit better. b) if the author has no email address, does anybody think you could buy a registered version ? But Mom probably doesn't know 'datar' either ;) I would

Re: [Freedos-user] Boot sector not standard? [Solved]

2006-10-27 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Marton, I checked your PROT program (1995, shareware, 30 bucks for the full version, demo version has fixed key "datar") from sunsite.rediris.es/pub/msdos/security/protdrx.zip a bit... The binary installer is 16 kilobytes, DIET compressed, easy to decompress with UNP. See the bottom of this m