[Freedos-user] New FreeDOSers Monthly Reminder

2011-09-30 Thread jp_freedos
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[Freedos-user] Announce: vmsmount, a driver for mounting VMware's shared folders in DOS

2011-09-30 Thread Eduardo Casino
Hi everybody, I'm pleased to announce the availability of the first version of VMSMOUNT, an installable file system for DOS that allows access to VMware's shared folders as a normal drive letter: * Free (GPL) * Complete, read-write implementation * Unicode - DOS codepage translation for filenames

Re: [Freedos-user] FTP Server testing needed

2011-09-30 Thread mbbrutman
Quoting Bernd Blaauw : > Is your machine on the internet or did you perform some router port > forwarding magic? I've always wanted to do that, however router software > isn't that cooperative usually. The machine is behind a firewall and the firewall is setup to forward incoming requests on po

Re: [Freedos-user] FTP Server testing needed

2011-09-30 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 29-9-2011 15:37, Michael B. Brutman schreef: > All if this will be part of the next mTCP release, which I'm targeting > for the next week. Getting some testing time on it is a good thing ... I wonder if all of FlashFXP's abilities (FTP, FXP, SFTP, FTPS) work. iPXE project has some interesting

Re: [Freedos-user] UEFI and old OSes?

2011-09-30 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 30-9-2011 11:07, JPT schreef: > How do you deal with UEFI PCs? > Does Freedos work with UEFI? Under pure UEFI, FreeDOS won't work. One reason is lack of backwards compatibility, another reason is UEFI might restrict you to vendor-signed cryptographic bootloaders. My best guess would be to b

[Freedos-user] UEFI and old OSes?

2011-09-30 Thread JPT
Hi, well, I am planning a PC upgrade. I already realized only a single manufacturer still offers floppy controllers. What a shame. Today I realized old BIOS is gone. And I cannot find much on the backwards compatibily of UEFI. There has to be a "Compatibility Support Module" (CSM) for old operat