[Freedos-user] disc partitition / filesystems FDos undertands

2007-12-07 Thread David Zabriskie
I saw there was a tool that looked like fsck from unix (dosfsck) is says it understands fat32(LBA) so I tried to reinstall with fat32(lba) the bootable cd crashes just after detecting the hard drive, so I'm guessing the OS doesn't want itself on a fat32 fs? I guess I'll have to live with a *b

Re: [Freedos-user] Information on WinDos/FreeWin ?

2007-12-07 Thread David Zabriskie
found it in a search engine -- sorry I got it installed and get to program manager window. > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 09:53:30 -0500 > Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Information on WinDos/FreeWin ? > > > > > the place to download the

Re: [Freedos-user] Information on WinDos/FreeWin ?

2007-12-07 Thread David Zabriskie
the place to download the software is just a seller of domains / hosting? no download ? http://xthost.info/ http://two.xthost.info/freewinx/freewin.zip and http://two.xthost.nfo/freewinx/freewin1.zip both redirect back to http://xthost.info is there some where else to download from? ---

Re: [Freedos-user] I'm looking for a way to use a USB floppy drive - I can boot from a CDROM drive o

2007-12-05 Thread David Zabriskie
both those links fail :( anywhere else to look for the instructs and list of packages? > Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 11:34:22 +0100 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] I'm looking for a way to use a USB floppy drive - > I can boot from a

Re: [Freedos-user] I'm looking for a way to use a USB floppy drive - I can boot from a CDROM drive o

2007-12-05 Thread David Zabriskie
I finally got the USB floppy drive able to boot after a BIOS update :) I'm progressing... I 'shrank' the NTFS partitition and defined a fat16(LBA) partititon in the freed space. I booted the install disc and got it mostly done, but I'm having difficulty setting up TCP/IP. The config script dete

[Freedos-user] I'm looking for a way to use a USB floppy drive - I can boot from a CDROM drive ok

2007-12-04 Thread David Zabriskie
I have a DOS application that creates DMF formated floppys, but it needs dos as a host OS. I'm using laptop that has a bootable cd drive and winxp home in single a hd partition in NTFS. There is only about 4gb free, but I could repartition to free 1gb and create a fat32 partition in it to hold