[Freedos-user] using suspect partition ... with 1014-15-63 instead of 1015-15-63 booting 1.3-rc4/FD13-LiveCD

2021-06-10 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user
While booting https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.3/previews/1.3-rc4/FD13-LiveCD.zip on VirtualBox I get: - InitDiskWarning: using suspect partition Pri:1 FS: 06: with calculated values 1014-15-63 instead of 1015-15-63 Is it expected? Why?

[Freedos-user] Re : game compatibility CD/DVD drivers: comparing UDVD2 to OAKCDROM and DOSBOX

2021-06-10 Thread Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user
I don't know if this is really a protection mechanism. BTW: about Bar code for music CD: https://barcodeinfo.org/barcodes-for-music-cds/ I was just not aware myself about this. First time I tried 1.3 RC4 live on VirtualBox today, after installation (had chosen, base with sources), config=2,

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos Install Problem

2021-06-10 Thread Andrew
Gotcha, thanks for the info. Its possible the mobo floppy controller is broken. I haven't finished troubleshooting it yet. On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 8:00 AM Liam Proven wrote: > On Wed, 9 Jun 2021 at 18:05, Andrew wrote: > > > > 3) I havnt worked enough in getting the floppy working on the i386,

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos Install Problem

2021-06-10 Thread Liam Proven
On Wed, 9 Jun 2021 at 18:05, Andrew wrote: > > 3) I havnt worked enough in getting the floppy working on the i386, i think > it has to do with a nonstandard ide connection. Standard floppy drives are *not* IDE. They have their own connection (34-way not 40-way) and this is attached to a floppy c

Re: [Freedos-user] [Freedos-devel] LSM: Entered-date means modified date

2021-06-10 Thread Jerome Shidel
Hi Paul, There are two completely separate FreeDOS File Repositories on IBIBLIO. There is the “Online Software Repository”. It contains packages that are ready to use in FreeDOS. Programs that can perform package updates or installations over the internet point to this section. This packages in