[Freedos-user] IHPFS

IHPFS.EXE seems to work. It has a provision for selecting drive letter. However, the HPFS partition is located amongst FAT 16&32 partitions whose drive letters are assigned during config.sys load. Can I load it in config.sys or somehow reserve/assign the drive letter that represents the pla

Re: [Freedos-user] getting applications working

> had to run the install CD twice to get FreeDOS installed on the hard drive. Known problem, the 1.0 distro is obsolete and buggy ... > My experience was that about half of the ones i tried on FreeDOS worked. Make sure to update the kernel, HIMEM to HIMEMX, EMM386 to nothing or JEMM, CTMOUSE, ..

Re: [Freedos-user] getting applications working

Hi, > One last question.  Is there a good forum or mailing list for discussing > porting/compiling Open Source applications to DOS?  There are several command > line and a few pdcurses applicatons I like.  Would be interested to see how > many work on FreeDOS.  I'd rather not reinvent the wheel

Re: [Freedos-user] dmidecode

Fabrício Ceolin wrote: > Do Anyone sucess compile dmidecode for freedos, using djgpp? I've build a draft version of dmidecode version 2.9 in February 2008: Full release is still missing. :-( Robert Riebisch -- BTTR Software http://www.

[Freedos-user] getting applications working

I've been tracking FreeDOS development on and off for years. I finally had an excuse to install FreeDOS on one of my computers when I found it didn't have enough memory to run many of the newer operating systems. I have a Sony PCG-F540 laptop 500 MHz with 64 MB RAM and a 6 Gig hard disk. It