On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 12:57 PM Jim Hall via Freedos-user <
freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> It's a different sort of thing, but a colleague shared his editor's
> advice to write in a way that makes it difficult to go back and edit
> what you've done, while you're writing it. The idea
You inspired me to build one myself. I’m awaiting a few parts now.
On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 12:15 PM Bill Gee via Freedos-user <
freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> An update for the group -
>
> Today I built an adapter that translates USB keyboard and mouse to PS/2
> signals.
>
> https:
On Wed, 31 Jan 2024 at 09:10, Thomas Cornelius Desi via Freedos-user
wrote:
>
> Does anyone around know if BIOSes in general differentiate between »floppy
> drive« or »hard disk« because of an existing MBR (or partition table) or not?
Interesting question.
Some (older) BIOSes do distinguish bet
On Mon, 29 Jan 2024 at 18:26, Santiago Almenara via Freedos-user
wrote:
>
> It is a 2014 article, I believe he might have discovered Youtube, Email,
> Facebook and all other distractions.
> He haven't written any complete book since 2011, except for short stories. :(
I last met GRRM in 2019 alth
add on: Should I limit partitioning for boot partitions on a usb stick for
Booting FreeDos to 8 GB? (Or maybe only 512MB or 256MB which are all more than
enough to hold the FreeDOS Kernel and OS progs?)
because:
> The original BIOS real-mode INT 13h interface supports drives of sizes up to
>
I would want to find out if there is any common ground regarding USB Stick
formatting and having access to a second USB Stick when booting FreeDOS from a
first USB Stick.
Does anyone around know if BIOSes in general differentiate between »floppy
drive« or »hard disk« because of an existing MBR
