Re: [Freedos-user] not pleased with 1.3 installer

Felix Miata composed on 2024-10-14 20:47 (UTC-0400): > After at least 3 decades, one might think a DOS disk partitioner, or the > FreeDOS > installer, might have acquired an ability to not disturb anything that is > part of > the target partition. I left out an important "not". It was *suppose

Re: [Freedos-user] not pleased with 1.3 installer

Chips Olden composed on 2024-10-15 03:50 (UTC+0100): > I'm curious, with your obvious Linux experience (what on /earth /do you > need that many versions of Linux for anyway? Troubleshooting that includes specific hardware, and/or crosschecks failure among distros to determine whether distro or

Re: [Freedos-user] Accessibility question.

I'm not sure about porting espeak to dos, I'd be inclined to believe it would take a heck of a lot of work if it's even possible, since for the most part, it depends on linux api calls and kernel functions to do most of it's work.  Not to say it couldn't be done, but it wuld be a quite differen

Re: [Freedos-user] not pleased with 1.3 installer

I'm curious, with your obvious Linux experience (what on /earth /do you need that many versions of Linux for anyway? In the day & age of high-powered CPU's and cheap RAM is virtualisation not an option?), wouldn't you have been more cautious with partitioning in the first place? I mean, heck, w

Re: [Freedos-user] not pleased with 1.3 installer

Look at plop https://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager/full.html On Mon, Oct 14, 2024, at 5:47 PM, Felix Miata via Freedos-user wrote: > After at least 3 decades, one might think a DOS disk partitioner, or > the FreeDOS > installer, might have acquired an ability to not disturb anything that > is part

Re: [Freedos-user] not pleased with 1.3 installer

Felix Miata composed on 2024-10-14 20:47 (UTC-0400): > After at least 3 decades, one might think a DOS disk partitioner, or the > FreeDOS > installer, might have acquired an ability to not disturb anything that is > part of > the target partition. No such was or is apparent. Now that FreeDOS is

[Freedos-user] not pleased with 1.3 installer

After at least 3 decades, one might think a DOS disk partitioner, or the FreeDOS installer, might have acquired an ability to not disturb anything that is part of the target partition. No such was or is apparent. Now that FreeDOS is installed, only it can be booted, because it presumed it OK to mo

Re: [Freedos-user] Accessibility question.

Hi Lawrence, I have a serious Linux friend wanting to do this comparatively. not with orca, but another Linux tool. does your process extend to command line Linux? Karen On Mon, 14 Oct 2024, Lawrence Perez via Freedos-user wrote: Hi, Do you plan to run FreeDOS directly on computer hardware

Re: [Freedos-user] Accessibility question.

Hi Mike, I am not a personal fan of bottom posting, but will do so in this case..so see below your own question for my answers smiles. On Sun, 13 Oct 2024, Mike Coulombe via Freedos-user wrote: Hi, if this isn't the correct list for this question please let me know which list I should try.

[Freedos-user] what's installable or installed?

is too cryptic to tell which, if any, in the list amounts to a Norton Commander workalike. In Linux I use fcl (File Commander/Linux), which is same as fc/2 (File Commander/2) in OS/2 and the Windows v

Re: [Freedos-user] Nvidia GeForce 2 MX

> On Mon, Oct 14, 2024 at 11:24:41AM -0400, Felix Miata via Freedos-user wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 30, 2024 Daniel Doran wrote: >>> I got an Nvidia GeForce 2 MX AGP graphics card (256MB RAM), it’s in my >>> Compaq Presario 6207EA PC. FreeDOS won’t boot with it installed, it just >>> freezes. Howev

Re: [Freedos-user] Nvidia GeForce 2 MX

Hi, > On Oct 14, 2024, at 11:41 AM, Felix Miata via Freedos-user > wrote: > >  >> >>> On Mon, Sep 30, 2024 Daniel Doran wrote: >>> I got an Nvidia GeForce 2 MX AGP graphics card (256MB RAM), it’s in my >>> Compaq Presario 6207EA PC. FreeDOS won’t boot with it installed, it just >>> freezes

Re: [Freedos-user] Accessibility question.

Hi, That distro sounds interesting, but I need to run free dos on different computers. If it had speech accessibility free dos would be very useful to blind people world wide considering all the free dos programs you can get and the amount of old computers many of can be had for free or next to

Re: [Freedos-user] Nvidia GeForce 2 MX

> On Mon, Sep 30, 2024 Daniel Doran wrote: >> I got an Nvidia GeForce 2 MX AGP graphics card (256MB RAM), it’s in my >> Compaq Presario 6207EA PC. FreeDOS won’t boot with it installed, it just >> freezes. However, I know the card is good as Haiku OS loves it, not only >> does it work but it giv

Re: [Freedos-user] Accessibility question.

Hi, Do you plan to run FreeDOS directly on computer hardware, or in a virtual machine? I've had success with getting FreeDOS to work within QEMU in terminal only mode, allowing you to use a modern screen reader, such as Orca on Linux, but it could probably work on MacOS and VoiceOver. Not sure

Re: [Freedos-user] Ré : Ré : Odd post-install problem

I had a lot of trouble installing FreeDOS onto an old laptop, and here is how I got it to work. Do you have a Windows computer? I have only tested this using Windows, but it should work on a Mac. I'm not sure about Linux, as I haven't run any virtualization software on Linux before. I installed O

Re: [Freedos-user] Accessibility question.

Hello list, I remember that Joseph Norton has put together a FreeDOS distro with the ASAP screen reader. However, this will not speak on its own---it sends speech output to COM1, where it expects a hardware speech synthesizer. If you run FreeDOS in a VM you can redirect the guest's COM1 to one end

Re: [Freedos-user] Accessibility question.

Hi there, On Sun, 13 Oct 2024, Mike Coulombe via Freedos-user wrote: ... I'm visually impaired and would like to use free dos. My vision is good but I'm chiming in now in case others take longer to get to your message. I believe a number of people on this list are visually impaired and I hav

Re: [Freedos-user] Ré : Ré : Odd post-install problem

Hi there, On Sun, 13 Oct 2024, Michael Rakijas via Freedos-user wrote: ... I changed back to the 1.4 GB cartridge ... FreeDOS would not reinstall. ... Something really funky is afoot. I'm not sure the conclusion there is warranted but I'll admit that I haven't been carefully following the thr