Re: [Freedos-user] Can't boot FreeDOS from Grub2

2011-12-19 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 8:40 PM, dmccunney wrote: > On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 5:56 PM, Rugxulo wrote: > > I've had worse pains.  I noprmally prefer to have each OS on its own > drive, but that wasn't an option here. VirtualBox would be easier, but your cpu may not support VT-X, sadly. Without

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDos not booting from Grubfordos2

2011-12-19 Thread Garry Ricketson
Dennis, When I installed FreeDos, to a new partition, for it, all I did was after it was installed,at the Linux command line I typed:sudo update-grub And FreeDos was added to the boot list,..boots fine I see you have also tried replaceing KERNEL.SYS. with a new kernal,...don't know much about

Re: [Freedos-user] Can't boot FreeDOS from Grub2

2011-12-19 Thread dmccunney
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 5:56 PM, Rugxulo wrote: > Hi, >   Ugh, this sounds messy. Partitions are a pain! I've had worse pains. I noprmally prefer to have each OS on its own drive, but that wasn't an option here. The old box this was done on was a gift from a friend who had upgraded, and it's ba

[Freedos-user] AST driver problem...

2011-12-19 Thread Michael Robinson
There has been quite a bit of talk about AST hardware needing special drivers even under DOS. Well, if the company won't put the drivers in the public domain and there aren't very many AST computers in the world, the logical thing to do is recycle the ones that are left and replace them. Am I mis

Re: [Freedos-user] AST Research drivers

2011-12-19 Thread dmccunney
> On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Jeffrey wrote: >> >>     About a year and a half ago, the last website offering support for AST >> research computers went down. >> Because have an AST 80386, I downloaded all the drivers and files before >> that happened.  Would it be legal >> for you to host

Re: [Freedos-user] AST Research drivers

2011-12-19 Thread James Hall
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Jeffrey wrote: > Hi All, > >     About a year and a half ago, the last website offering support for AST > research computers went down. > Because have an AST 80386, I downloaded all the drivers and files before that > happened.  Would it be legal > for you to hos

Re: [Freedos-user] AST Research drivers

2011-12-19 Thread Rugxulo
Hi again, On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 4:41 PM, Jeffrey wrote: > >> It's a shame to let good software disappear because of copyright law, >> esp. when the original copyright holders have no interest in hosting >> it themselves. But it's very common (esp. for "legacy"). > > Especially since these are t

Re: [Freedos-user] Can't boot FreeDOS from Grub2

2011-12-19 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, Ugh, this sounds messy. Partitions are a pain! On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 10:19 AM, dmccunney wrote: > > I know the topic has been discussed here before, but I'm still > struggling with this problem. Well, Grub 2 is fairly "new", or at least a lot of Linux distros only fairly recently starte

Re: [Freedos-user] AST Research drivers

2011-12-19 Thread Jeffrey
Hi Rugxulo, > Does Garbo still accept contributions?? Even Simtel only accepts > things from the original copyright holder, sadly. Berlios is (IIRC) > similarly OSI-only. I just checked, and it seems Garbo is temporarily down. :( --

Re: [Freedos-user] AST Research drivers

2011-12-19 Thread Jeffrey
Hi, > It's a shame to let good software disappear because of copyright law, > esp. when the original copyright holders have no interest in hosting > it themselves. But it's very common (esp. for "legacy"). Especially since these are the drivers for the hardware, and are necessary for changing th

Re: [Freedos-user] AST Research drivers

2011-12-19 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, I wish there was a good answer, but I don't know of one. FreeDOS has (AFAIK) only two "mirror" places, i.e. SourceForge (OSI-approved stuff only??) and iBiblio ("mostly" public domain?? though Jim is very heavily GPL-oriented). Does Garbo still accept contributions?? Even Simtel only accep

[Freedos-user] Can't boot FreeDOS from Grub2

2011-12-19 Thread dmccunney
I know the topic has been discussed here before, but I'm still struggling with this problem. I multi-boot Win2K Pro, Ubuntu Linux, Puppy Linux, and FreeDOS on an old Fujitsu Lifebook. It has a 40GB IDE HD, with a 20GB primary partition for 2K, and an extended partition with a 512MB swap areas use