Florian Xaver schrieb:
>> You have an old mainboard with isa and it`s working good for you?
>
> No, I have a SB Live! 5.1 PCI soundcard...I had tried the driver for
> SB16 emulation, but it wasn't compatible with some drivers so I never
> used it. With old mainboards I mean more or less 2, 3 years
FreeDOS has good, not perfect kernel and a suite of important tools.
It`s better then I thought and it can be almost a full ms-dos replacement.
FreeDOS 1.1 was announced long ago. Now the development seams a bit
dozed. (I dind`t check live source but from release cycles.)
Like already mentioned
Eric asked me to post some advertisements for grub4dos.
If you are interested in multi booting I bet you know gnu grub 1.x, also
known as grub legacy. Grub legacy will be no longer developed by the gnu
grub project. Them are now working on grub2 and they have their reasons.
grub4dos is a fork
Hi Tom,
> you are welcome to convert the *existing* packages to any
> format you like, but don't expect everybody else to convert
> packages into formats that you like.
Maybe you misunderstood me... the fdupdate / fdpkg / textinst
and install formats are all basically the same. This means
that f
Hi Eric,
> As said in my previous mail, everybody is welcome to make
> zips in fdupdate compatible format when there are updates
> listed on freedos.org but not yet available on fdupdate.
you are welcome to convert the *existing* packages to any format you
like, but don't expect everybody else to
Hi :-)
> DOS has not package manager like most Linux Distros. You can NOT use
> your Linux package manager to download software for DOS.
Freedos does have a package manager, but installing a package
in freedos is almost the same as unzipping the zip with the
package in the fdos directory :-). So
Hi Alexandru,
> I installed it but only from the base CD. Now it realy offers
> me only some options at startup and then only the command prompt.
This is exactly what DOS always does :-). Of course you can
install programs which automatically start at boot. For that,
add them to your autoexec
Alexandru Fira schrieb:
> I installed it but only from the base CD. Now it realy offers me only some
> options at startup and then only the command prompt. What should I do to
> install programs and search the Web ? How can I put files into the computer
> under Freedos from a CD ?
Someone els
I installed it but only from the base CD. Now it realy offers me only some
options at startup and then only the command prompt. What should I do to
install programs and search the Web ? How can I put files into the computer
under Freedos from a CD ? I also can access the Freedos partition from
ESS pci cards are very DOS compatible. the bad side is
that the drivers has to be installed from win9x. the
dos/windows drivers are still available from
esstech.com.
i will post the dos only drivers here:
http://vogons.zetafleet.com/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pcdos2k/
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Thanks.
i've contacted the author : the last ORIGINAL version is 4.2.
The successive versions are Haking version (download unknow..)
Roberto
Robert Riebisch wrote:
>
> iw2evk wrote:
>
>> I've view in the net some information about version 4.5 or 4.5+ , but i
>> can find a site from download
Hi Steve,
> I'm seeking feedback from the Free DOS community to ensure the
> redesign meets the needs of (and works right for) Free DOS...
Nice, thanks :-)
> (I'm thinking this makes a change; a BIOS developer willing to make
> design changes to meet the needs of Free DOS, rather than the othe
Hi Flox,
> No, I have a SB Live! 5.1 PCI soundcard...I had tried the driver for
> SB16 emulation, but it wasn't compatible with some drivers so I never
> used it. With old mainboards I mean more or less 2, 3 years.
The SBLive / SBPCI driver emulates SB16 in software, so it
is only compatible wit
Steve Holton wrote:
> So what's the wishlist? If you were writing (the hooks for) a BIOS and
> wanted to be sure it works well with Free DOS (and everyone else be
> darned) what would you want to see? What horrors would you want to
> avoid?
>
> Is there a reference implementation of what a BIOS s
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