[Freedos-user] freedos update cd

2013-07-21 Thread Mark Brown
when everything is updated to current version on the freedos update cd, will someone write the list and say so, and include another link to it?' (kernel 2041, fdisk, all the new stuff per se) i'm talking about the 300+ mb .iso cd image download. is it done already?  

[Freedos-user] FDNPKG v0.96

2013-07-21 Thread Mateusz Viste
Hello all, I released a minute ago a new version of FDNPKG. This version brings a bunch of nice enhancements like better user feedback during download or smaller memory footprint. It also fixes a few really annoying bugs. If you already use FDNPKG, a simple 'FDNPKG update' will bring you to th

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS "FDNPKG install" CD

2013-07-21 Thread Mateusz Viste
Hello, On 07/21/2013 07:59 PM, Bernd Blaauw wrote: > All of these can have a CD drive attached to them. Remember Iomega's > zipdrives having lots of different drivers Okay, I understand now. The whole thing is not much about CDROM drives, but rather on any possible substitute that people can use

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS "FDNPKG install" CD

2013-07-21 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Mateusz Viste schreef op 21-7-2013 18:45: > Just like Rugxulo, I'm a bit lost about all these IDE/SATA/PATA stuff, > until now I was naively assuming that a SATA CD drive is behaving like a > PATA one, and same drivers will work, and the only difference is at the > physical level... You're right.

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS "FDNPKG install" CD

2013-07-21 Thread Mateusz Viste
A quick additional note: Out of pure curiosity, I configured the CD drive in my VirtualBox FreeDOS machine as being a SATA one (that is, attached to a SATA / AHCI controller). Unfortunately, both XCDROM.SYS and UDVD2.SYS failed to recognize it. So for the time being I will put back XCDROM in th

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS "FDNPKG install" CD

2013-07-21 Thread Mateusz Viste
Hi there, Just like Rugxulo, I'm a bit lost about all these IDE/SATA/PATA stuff, until now I was naively assuming that a SATA CD drive is behaving like a PATA one, and same drivers will work, and the only difference is at the physical level... By the way, how come that SATA HDD drives works fin