Re: [Freedos-user] Complete Novice Needs Help (FreeDOS installed)

2006-07-09 Thread Edward Long
I was able to install FreeDOS with the support of Mark Bailey. I think that his instruction file makes it fairly clear how to install. (I will probably always be a complete novice in all things pertaining to computers.) The following are supplemental notes I made as Mark helped me. (It is long-

[Freedos-user] Novice FD User is looking for an USB driver

2006-07-06 Thread Edward Long
I am the fellow that posted a message several days ago entitled "Complete Novice Needs Help". Thanks to Mark Bailey I now have FreeDOS on my laptop. As soon as I can write up the steps I employed I will share them. Now for the bad news: As I now understand DOS does not recognize the USB ports o

[Freedos-user] Complete Novice Needs Help

2006-07-02 Thread Edward Long
I currently use a very old computer system, that has Windows 98 and DOS emulator, as a way to use DOS to drive a table-top milling machine. I would like to use Free Dos on a new lap top (Windows XL) for when the time comes that old computer may die. But I have absolutely no idea how to do this.