Re: [Freedos-user] Big bootable disk for CD

2012-01-22 Thread Bob Cochran
Thank you, Dennis and TJ. I do indeed have 16 gigabytes of memory on my box. It is running a 6 core processor and "gaming motherboard" (that is MSI's description for it) which I've repurposed for server work. Specifically it is being transformed into a network attached storage server running Fr

Re: [Freedos-user] Big bootable disk for CD

2012-01-22 Thread dmccunney
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 4:30 PM, TJ Edmister wrote: > On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 14:07:01 -0500, dmccunney > wrote: >> FreeDOS *is* a DOS system, so you'll have the standard DOS limit of >> 1MB of real memory, and 640KB of conventional memory available to >> applications. >> >> The box I have FreeDOS o

Re: [Freedos-user] Big bootable disk for CD

2012-01-22 Thread TJ Edmister
On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 14:07:01 -0500, dmccunney wrote: > On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 1:55 PM, Bob Cochran > wrote: >> Thank you, Bret. I was just able to buy some reasonably priced USB >> drives and I'll play with installing FreeDOS on these. I too seem to >> remember that Win98 or Win XP DOS boot

Re: [Freedos-user] Big bootable disk for CD

2012-01-22 Thread dmccunney
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 1:55 PM, Bob Cochran wrote: > Thank you, Bret. I was just able to buy some reasonably priced USB > drives and I'll play with installing FreeDOS on these. I too seem to > remember that Win98 or Win XP DOS boot disks always boot with an > extended memory management applicatio

Re: [Freedos-user] Big bootable disk for CD

2012-01-22 Thread Bob Cochran
Thank you, Bret. I was just able to buy some reasonably priced USB drives and I'll play with installing FreeDOS on these. I too seem to remember that Win98 or Win XP DOS boot disks always boot with an extended memory management application. Does FreeDOS have the equivalent? The machine I'm test

Re: [Freedos-user] Announce: vmsmount, a driver for mounting VMware's shared folders in DOS

2012-01-22 Thread maui
with vmplayer it doesn't seem to work... I'm getting a screenshot like the one attached... black borders around the prompt screen I tried a combination of the following options pref.autoFitGuestToWindow = "FALSE" pref.autoFitFullScreen = "fitHostToGuest" pref.autoFit = "TRUE" no success may be it