On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 2:53 PM, Rugxulo wrote:
> In case it hasn't already been made obvious, this is a warning for
> inexperienced users who (surprise!) would rather NOT wipe out their existing
> OS and data if all they want to do is play around and experiment with DOS.
> Perhaps it needs to me
On Sun, 19 Jun 2016 13:11:12 -0400, dmccunney
wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 6:39 AM, TJ Edmister
> wrote:
>> Since I boot Win2K/XP from FAT32, I also have the ability to put FD
>> right
>> on the C: partition and add it to my BOOT.INI as an option. This needs a
>> little juggling of boo
>
> On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 4:00 AM, Brandon Taylor
> wrote:
>>
>> As much as I hate to concede, I must. I have found a critical passage on
>> the FreeDOS website
>> which, in my eyes, discourages further experimentation:
>>
>> “FreeDOS is a complete operating system. If you choose to install this
On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 1:56 PM, Rugxulo wrote:
> Hi, Dennis, :-)
>
> I know this may shock you, but this is a DOS mailing list. You know,
> people here actively want to use "DOS" binaries on DOS-compatible
> OSes.
It may shock you to realize I'm aware of that.
But TJ was talking about installi
Hi,
On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 3:44 AM, Eric Auer wrote:
>
> Hi Rugxulo, some CWSDPMI nitpicking and some memory limits coming ;-)
>
>> So DR-DOS 7.03 forcibly needed its own (weird, hybrid, bundled VxD or
>> whatever) EMM386, which had its own built-in XMS (so no separate HIMEM
>> needed) plus buil
Hi, Dennis, :-)
I know this may shock you, but this is a DOS mailing list. You know,
people here actively want to use "DOS" binaries on DOS-compatible
OSes.
I'm just saying, keep that in mind below.
On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 12:11 PM, dmccunney wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 6:39 AM, TJ Edmist
On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 6:23 PM, Jerome E. Shidel Jr. wrote:
> There are rough directions on using the installer with DOSBox
> in the FDI Readme.
>
> https://github.com/shidel/FDI/blob/master/README.md
As it happens, I'm doing something similar. I have an Android port of
DOSBox, and an assortmen
On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 6:39 AM, TJ Edmister wrote:
> Since I boot Win2K/XP from FAT32, I also have the ability to put FD right
> on the C: partition and add it to my BOOT.INI as an option. This needs a
> little juggling of boot sectors to accomplish though.
I have to ask: why FAT32?
I stayed at
Hi Mister or Miss Beitrag ;-)
> What about Enhanced DR-DOS by Udo Kuhnt?
> http://www.drdosprojects.de/
It adds some filesystem features to the kernel, yes. Most
extra software which came with DR DOS is not enhanced in
that distro, often not even included, as far as I know...
In general, it is
On Sat, 18 Jun 2016 07:20:32 -0400, Eric Auer wrote:
>
> * Is it easy enough to make a bootable USB stick with FreeDOS with
> plenty of software included which does NOT need to install to
> harddisk but can be used as "live" operating system boot disk?
Isn't there a bootable disk image like t
Hello!
What about Enhanced DR-DOS by Udo Kuhnt?
http://www.drdosprojects.de/
And why not use a mixture of Kernel and Userland? I could imagine using
either the DR-DOS kernel (which is only free for private use) or the
FreeDOS kernel, and a userland made of both or even proprietary parts
from
Hi Rugxulo, some CWSDPMI nitpicking and some memory limits coming ;-)
> So DR-DOS 7.03 forcibly needed its own (weird, hybrid, bundled VxD or
> whatever) EMM386, which had its own built-in XMS (so no separate HIMEM
> needed) plus built-in DPMI (so no CWSDPMI needed).
CWSDPMI is both a DPMI host
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