Re: [Freedos-user] Issue installing FreeDOS on Raspberry Pi 3

2019-09-25 Thread Jim Hall
> From: shift83...@gmail.com > > The work-around I have found is to set the image up on my Linux Ubunto 18.04 > box then transfer the image file over to the raspberry pi. > > > > I even tried using the FreeDOS 1.3 RC1 installer with the same results on the > Raspberry Pi 3. Both installer ISO’s

Re: [Freedos-user] Issue installing FreeDOS on Raspberry Pi 3

2019-09-25 Thread Jon Brase
I take it that your Ubuntu box is an x86 PC? If that is the case, the issue is very likely with QEMU's x86 emulation. On an x86, QEMU is able to use the host CPU to execute x86 instructions, so the emulation layer is only needed for a few instructions that do things that might allow the guest OS

Re: [Freedos-user] Issue installing FreeDOS on Raspberry Pi 3

2019-09-25 Thread shift838cs
The work-around I have found is to set the image up on my Linux Ubunto 18.04 box then transfer the image file over to the raspberry pi. I even tried using the FreeDOS 1.3 RC1 installer with the same results on the Raspberry Pi 3. Both installer ISO’s worked with no issue on the Ubuntu. N

Re: [Freedos-user] Sharing your open source story (off-topic)

2019-09-25 Thread OMGdaDPS
My drive doesnt even contain the directory C:\FDOS\DOC\PROGS. It does have down to \DOC, but there isnt a \PROGS in that directory. I also noticed that my drive isnt labeled as yours is... maybe I did something wrong during the installation, or maybe there is stuff after the install that I am su

Re: [Freedos-user] Sharing your open source story (off-topic)

2019-09-25 Thread Jim Hall
I just installed Freemacs using FDIMPLES. It gets installed into *C:\FDOS\DOC\PROGS* as you indicated. Here is my *DIR /W*: Volume in drive C is FREEDOS2016 Volume Serial Number is 2174-170A Directory of C:\FDOS\DOC\PROGS [.][..] ABBREV.MIN ABBREV1.MINABBREV2.MI

Re: [Freedos-user] Issue installing FreeDOS on Raspberry Pi 3

2019-09-25 Thread Regan Russell
> Actually Current CP/M-86 and MP/M were CP/M versions that were > multi-user and networkable (though no Internet existed those days, > fortunately)... I very vaguely remember those days. I almost did a Novell Netware certificate. You could make a living with DBASE-II or Turbo Pascal or C with I

Re: [Freedos-user] Issue installing FreeDOS on Raspberry Pi 3

2019-09-25 Thread Ralf Quint
On 9/25/2019 9:23 AM, dmccunney wrote: Why would they do that? To create much simpler OS for RPI than Linux. Who needs that whole complexity on such little SBC? CP/M would do just fine. No, it wouldn't. Digital Research developed CP/M as an OS for 8 bit micros like the Intel 8080 and Zilog Z80.

Re: [Freedos-user] Issue installing FreeDOS on Raspberry Pi 3

2019-09-25 Thread Ralf Quint
On 9/25/2019 7:59 AM, ZB wrote: On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 12:05:04AM -0700, Ralf Quint wrote: These are two totally different worlds! The only way you could get FreeDOS to run on a RPi is after installing one of the default Linux versions to install QEMU, which is an x86 emulator and install Free

Re: [Freedos-user] Issue installing FreeDOS on Raspberry Pi 3

2019-09-25 Thread Ralf Quint
On 9/25/2019 7:50 AM, Jim Hall wrote: Yes, but from the screenshot in his original post, he is installing FreeDOS in a QEMU virtual machine. Sorry, didn't see that screenshot (it somehow was blocked by Thunderbird) and was going by his description. And that sounded as if was trying to instal

Re: [Freedos-user] Issue installing FreeDOS on Raspberry Pi 3

2019-09-25 Thread Chris Schneider
I pasted the wrong command. The freedos.img does exist and I use it in the command. The FLOPPY.img also exist and I downloaded it from the freedos.org site. My raspberry is a 3+ With a PNY Elite CLass 10 64gb sd card. I think the thread you may be referencing may be the one where the user rece

Re: [Freedos-user] Issue installing FreeDOS on Raspberry Pi 3

2019-09-25 Thread dmccunney
On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 8:02 AM ZB wrote: > On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 12:05:04AM -0700, Ralf Quint wrote: > > > These are two totally different worlds! The only way you could get FreeDOS > > to run on a RPi is after installing one of the default Linux versions to > > install QEMU, which is an x86 em

Re: [Freedos-user] Sharing your open source story (off-topic)

2019-09-25 Thread dps
Ok so when I installed FREEMACS via FDIMPLES, I tabbed down to the info panel and it shows a ton of different directories in which I'm guessing that the program itself and it dependencies are located. I see that there is a .exe file titled emacs.exe, that has the path of 'c:\fdos\doc\progs\emac

[Freedos-user] Bad or missing Command Interpreter; USB boot of FreeDOS on old Dell Dimension computer

2019-09-25 Thread Karl Brown via Freedos-user
Hi - I have a Dell Dimension 9100, circa 2005, that I'd like to give away or sell, but first I wanted to wipe the disk. In order to do so, I used DBAN, which I was told would not touch the HPA (Host Protected Area). DBAN ran successfully, but now I can't get into the Dell System restore partitio

Re: [Freedos-user] Issue installing FreeDOS on Raspberry Pi 3

2019-09-25 Thread Jim Hall
On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 10:09 AM Jim Hall wrote: > [..] > I have two suggestions for you: > > (1) > Your "hda" image file is different in the two commands. You created a hard > disk image named dos.img but you tried to reference a hard disk image named > freedos.img. Does the freedos.img image f

Re: [Freedos-user] Issue installing FreeDOS on Raspberry Pi 3

2019-09-25 Thread Jim Hall
On 9/24/2019 8:15 PM, shift83...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> I have tried multiple times to install FreeDOS on Raspberry Pi3. >> >> *[*..*]* >> >> Has anyone seen this and been able to resolve it? >> >> On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 2:07 AM Ralf Quint wrote: > There is no way to resolve this! >> >> The RPi

Re: [Freedos-user] Sharing your open source story (off-topic)

2019-09-25 Thread Bob via Freedos-user
While I am new-ish to open source and don't have much of a story (yet), I now have some new stuff to read! Thanks for bringing this site to our attention! ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Tuesday, September 24, 2019 5:01 PM, Jim Hall wrote: > Just wanted to share that OpenSource.com is alwa

Re: [Freedos-user] Issue installing FreeDOS on Raspberry Pi 3

2019-09-25 Thread ZB
On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 12:05:04AM -0700, Ralf Quint wrote: > These are two totally different worlds! The only way you could get FreeDOS > to run on a RPi is after installing one of the default Linux versions to > install QEMU, which is an x86 emulator and install FreeDOS within that > virtual mac

Re: [Freedos-user] Issue installing FreeDOS on Raspberry Pi 3

2019-09-25 Thread Jim Hall
On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 2:07 AM Ralf Quint wrote: > > On 9/24/2019 8:15 PM, shift83...@gmail.com wrote: > > I have tried multiple times to install FreeDOS on Raspberry Pi3. >[...] > > Has anyone seen this and been able to resolve it? > > There is no way to resolve this! > > The RPi (any model!) is

Re: [Freedos-user] Issue installing FreeDOS on Raspberry Pi 3

2019-09-25 Thread Chris Schneider
That’s what I’m trying to do. I have Raspian loaded and qemu loaded. Launching qemu with the freedos installation and I’m getting errors after the reboot from partitioning the image file. It seems my cdrom iso can not be read. On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 2:07 AM Ralf Quint wrote: > On 9/24/2019 8:

Re: [Freedos-user] Sharing your open source story (off-topic)

2019-09-25 Thread Jerome Shidel
> On Sep 25, 2019, at 12:41 AM, dps wrote: > > That most definitely provided some clarification! Thank you! > Just to clarify: when I install a program, say from fdimples, a text file I > created and placed in the PACKAGES directory, and from there I am view it > with my editor of choice?

Re: [Freedos-user] Issue installing FreeDOS on Raspberry Pi 3

2019-09-25 Thread Ralf Quint
On 9/24/2019 8:15 PM, shift83...@gmail.com wrote: I have tried multiple times to install FreeDOS on Raspberry Pi3. I have created a 100M and 200M raw disk image. Mounted the Standard and then tried with the Legacy ISO. Both will boot the ISO, partition and format the hard disk. But when I re