Re: [Freedos-user] question about your web site You made it secure

Jerome Shidel composed on 2025-07-02 11:02 (UTC-0400): > There is sprat subdomain that points to the same repositories on that server. > It allows > both HTTP and HTTPS. It works great in DOS using the Lynx text only web > browser and > can be visited by going to http://dos.lod.bz/repos > This

Re: [Freedos-user] Would This PC Work?

Ash composed on 2025-05-28 21:25 (UTC-0400): > I'm someone who has only recently begun diving deeper into computer > software and hardware related topics (beyond surface level history), so > forgive me if i'm about to ask a very basic question. > Essentially, I'm looking to install FreeDOS as the

Re: [Freedos-user] Logical Partitions

Ashley Pirrone composed on 2024-12-20 14:57 (UTC-0500): > Hi. I know it's a DOS thing to want C:, but with a more modern > implementation, I think it shouldn't care. I don't need to hide any > partitions, because it is already the first FAT partition. I can install it, > but when booting I g

[Freedos-user] January 2038 problem

String "DOS" is absent from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem. Has anything been done or planned to deal with it in FreeDOS, or the legacy filesystems it supports? Google turned up nothing useful about DOS. In Linux "ext2 filesystem being mounted at /disks/boot supports timestamps u

Re: [Freedos-user] extract BIOS bin file from Windows .EXE file in FreeDOS?

Thank you for reply… Eric Auer composed on 2024-11-05 23:48 (UTC+0100): >> https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Flashing_BIOS_from_Linux section 4 seems to >> indicate while booted to FreeDOS one can extract a BIOS file from a >> "Windows" .EXE >> file. Can this be true, even when the .EXE file view

[Freedos-user] extract BIOS bin file from Windows .EXE file in FreeDOS?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Flashing_BIOS_from_Linux section 4 seems to indicate while booted to FreeDOS one can extract a BIOS file from a "Windows" .EXE file. Can this be true, even when the .EXE file viewed in a plain text viewer includes the string "This program cannot be run in DOS mode.

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

Robert Thorpe composed on 2024-10-16 03:17 (UTC+0100): > May I suggest installing FreeDOS to a USB flash drive. That is to one > of those little USB pendrives/ USB keys. To what end? > I don't mean installing from a pendrive, I mean installing *to* one. > For FreeDOS you really don't need a lar

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

Michał Dec composed on 2024-10-15 20:08 (UTC+0200): > What is exactly your use case for over 20 logical partitions? I see a > lot of Linux distro names. If my assumption is correct that you keep Answered on 2024-10-15 00:16 (UTC-0400). > just the root filesystems of those distros as separate p

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] 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

[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, 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] Post-install problem with GRUB2 bootloader

Liam Proven composed on 2024-03-04 19:17 (UTC): > tsiegel wrote: >> There should be only one active primary partition at any given time. > Picky-picky. OK, then, reorder the adjectives so that it is no longer > grammatical English but is more technically accurate. > The active, first primary pa

Re: [Freedos-user] Post-install problem with GRUB2 bootloader

Liam Proven composed on 2024-03-01 17:10 (UTC): > DOS generally likes to be the 1st active primary partition on an > MBR-formatted drive. Which DOS version(s) is/are bootable when more than one active primary is present on a drive? -- Evolution as taught in public schools is, like religion,

Re: [Freedos-user] Post-install problem with GRUB2 bootloader

Charles Hudson composed on 2024-02-29 11:44 (UTC-0500): > I could in other words reinstall the Linux system but as a learning > exercise I though I would see if GRUB could be rebuilt. Supposing that > this may have happened to some other user, I am posting a question here, > asking for advice on

Re: [Freedos-user] Using HDMI monitor and USB keyboard/mouse on FreeDOS

Bill Gee composed on 2024-01-26 12:59 (UTC-0600): > Go back to the original set of questions that started this ... My > FreeDOS machine is plugged into a KVM switch which supports only VGA and > PS2. In the near future - 6 months or so - that KVM must be upgraded to > support HDMI displays an

Re: [Freedos-user] Using HDMI monitor and USB keyboard/mouse on FreeDOS

Bill Gee composed on 2024-01-26 12:18 (UTC-0600): > But that is, in fact, what happens with the adapter I have. > https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08GZ159FJ > I plugged it into an HDMI monitor and the VGA output of my FreeDOS > machine. When I booted the computer, the monitor said "No signal". I >

Re: [Freedos-user] Using HDMI monitor and USB keyboard/mouse on FreeDOS

Bill Gee composed on 2024-01-26 06:13 (UTC-0600): > That adapter on Amazon does look interesting. Too bad it is not > currently available. The specs show it supporting 480 and 720 > resolutions, so it might work. The adapter I got only mentions 1080. > I looked all over eBay. Everything I f

Re: [Freedos-user] Using HDMI monitor and USB keyboard/mouse on FreeDOS

Bill Gee via Freedos-user composed on 2024-01-25 12:20 (UTC-0600): > Lots of good graphics modes on that card you are using. Problem is, > that all came from Linux. What happens if you boot the system in > FreeDOS? Will it show the POST? Turns out that PC had primary #2 allocated for FreeDO

Re: [Freedos-user] Using HDMI monitor and USB keyboard/mouse on FreeDOS

Bill Gee composed on 2024-01-25 06:40 (UTC-0600): > This is probably more of a hardware question than a FreeDOS question. > However, I think the people on this list are likely to have some > experience with this kind of problem. > The upcoming change to Wayland in the Fedora world is going to

Re: [Freedos-user] What DOS programs represent the 1980s and early 90s?

Jim Hall via Freedos-user composed on 2023-12-24 22:33 (UTC-0600): > I'm thinking about doing a video that shows how to do real work on DOS. I > sometimes see comments on YouTube with people asking "could you really do > *work* with DOS?" And the answer is *of course you can, that happened every >

Re: [Freedos-user] How do I change screen resolution?

zerofive--- composed on 2023-08-06 02:08 (UTC+0200): > This question may been asked a million times but I just can't figure it out, > and > googling it gives no results (except telling me that I need to use `mode` and > some parameters but this just wouldn't give me what I am trying to achieve)

Re: [Freedos-user] Can FreeDOS Be Installed By Means Of UNIX Commands?

Jay F. Shachter composed on 2023-07-16 09:21 (UTC-0500): > I have a computer, with an MBR-partitioned disk, that is configured to > perform Legacy boot. Microsoft Windows is installed on three primary > partitions, because that is what Windows does It did that because you didn't take control. It