Re: [Freedos-user] Installing GRUB

2022-06-29 Thread Tony Richardson
Louis, Sure. The output is: Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/sda1 * 2048 1023999 1021952 499M e W95 FAT16 (LBA) Regards, Tony On Wed, Jun 29, 2022 at 1:07 AM Louis Santillan wrote: > Tony, > > In your Linux VM, could you give the output to `fdisk -l

Re: [Freedos-user] 28 years of FreeDOS

2022-06-29 Thread Jim Hall
On Wed, Jun 29, 2022 at 5:25 PM Jim Hall wrote: > > Today, we mark 28 years of FreeDOS (June 29, 1994). I just want to > take a minute to recognize all the hard work folks have put in over > the years: > [..] I also wanted to share that I wrote an article about 26 FreeDOS commands: "ABCs of Free

[Freedos-user] 28 years of FreeDOS

2022-06-29 Thread Jim Hall
Today, we mark 28 years of FreeDOS (June 29, 1994). I just want to take a minute to recognize all the hard work folks have put in over the years: Pat Villani wrote our first kernel, and others kept it going, including Bart Oldeman, John Price, Tom Ehlert, Charles Dye, Eric Auer, Jim Tabor

Re: [Freedos-user] FD13 floppy installation attempts

2022-06-29 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Pierre, Jim and everybody, On my FreeDOS PC, I tried to use PKUNZIP to unpack the floppy boot ZIP to a 1.44 floppy. That's when PKUNZIP told me that the destination had insufficient space. That is not surprising. You must use a tool which can write disk IMAGES to the floppy. Just copyin

Re: [Freedos-user] FD13 floppy installation attempts

2022-06-29 Thread Liam Proven
On Tue, 28 Jun 2022 at 00:49, Pierre LaMontagne wrote: > I haven't tried it, but I'm pretty sure this oldest PC of mine won't > boot from a CD. OK, this is the first thing. Why not try? If you have any bootable CD of any kind around, why not just give it a go? This would seem to be a lot easi