Re: [Freedos-user] alt.os.free-dos

2006-09-17 Thread Gerry Hickman
Thanks Jim, OK, it was there all along (but buried within the mailing lists page). Jim Hall wrote: > Gerry Hickman wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Would it be possible to add a link to FreeDOS newsgroups just below the >> link called "Mailing List / Chat" on the mai

Re: [Freedos-user] alt.os.free-dos

2006-09-17 Thread Gerry Hickman
n fixed since this morning! Eric said it's "easy to fix" and maybe he did that today... -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done qui

[Freedos-user] alt.os.free-dos

2006-09-17 Thread Gerry Hickman
ire authentication if you want to, but personally I'm happy with the public ones. Good-bye to the list, and see you all on the newsgroups! -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need t

Re: [Freedos-user] Feedback mechanisms, was: Announcing FreeDOS on some newsgroups

2006-09-13 Thread Gerry Hickman
r job easier > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > ___ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforg

Re: [Freedos-user] [OT] Announcing FreeDOS on some newsgroups

2006-09-12 Thread Gerry Hickman
est technology is rarely the one that succeeds? PCM and MP3 vs iPod, CD-RW and UDF vs CD-R, DVD-RAM vs DVD-R, Betamax vs VHS, Bluray vs HD, Windows vs Linux and so on... -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) - Using Tomcat but

Re: [Freedos-user] [OT] Announcing FreeDOS on some newsgroups

2006-09-09 Thread Gerry Hickman
gt; Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > ___ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://l

Re: [Freedos-user] Announcing FreeDOS on some newsgroups

2006-09-09 Thread Gerry Hickman
sage you want to look at (less bandwidth) and you can also mark thread/message as "read". There's also the advantage that the posts are automatically archived and search-able by Google in a more powerful interface than they have on source forge.

Re: [Freedos-user] How can i speed up Access to SATA-Disks?

2006-09-07 Thread Gerry Hickman
done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > __________

Re: [Freedos-user] ANNOUNCE: FD-KEYB 2.0 final ready!

2006-08-30 Thread Gerry Hickman
into this concept sitting next to Linux? Who will write all the drivers for the latest NICs, USB, Kerberos, signed SMB, NFS, NTFS, TCP/IP with IP v6, not to mention cameras, scanners, printers - how will they all work? What standards will this new UI adhere to? -

Re: [Freedos-user] Compatibility EMM386/HIMEM 2.25 New Release

2006-08-22 Thread Gerry Hickman
ental problem that only reveals itself when you start to stress the system? Which IFSHLP.SYS are you using? -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuf

Re: [Freedos-user] Problems with FreeFDISK ?

2006-08-10 Thread Gerry Hickman
ity? > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > _________

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS "1.0" in the news...

2006-07-10 Thread Gerry Hickman
is is even more interesting! Isn't it the case that some Windows code can bypass the BIOS completely? If so, then what I said makes some sense... -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) - Using Tomcat but need to do more? N

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS "1.0" in the news...

2006-07-10 Thread Gerry Hickman
et and file I/O changes. I don't think of WfW as a DOS shell because big chunks of it bypass DOS. To me, a DOS shell would be something that talks to the hardware via DOS, not something that bypasses it. Either way, it's been a good learning process for me. It's made me think a lo

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS "1.0" in the news...

2006-07-08 Thread Gerry Hickman
386 from it, instead "native" ones. Maybe this is where I'm getting mixed up. You appear to be saying DOS 6.22 is much newer than WfW 3.11, is this correct? I thought it was the other way round. -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS "1.0" in the news...

2006-07-07 Thread Gerry Hickman
FreeDOS is great on modern hardware. > They don't like EMM386; DR > or FD. Yes, I've posted at great length about this in the past. I use UMBPCI at the moment. > 64 bit is a bit of a jump, but if you will settle for 32 bit - for now - > I think we did most of that, it&#

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS "1.0" in the news...

2006-07-06 Thread Gerry Hickman
32/64 bit prot-mode o/s then really it's time to forget the whole "legacy" thing and just create a next generation 64bit command line o/s that supports endless memory, multi-processors, multi-tasking, firmware BIOS, native SCSI, NTFS, NFS, KERBEROS and SMB signing. -- Gerry Hick

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS "1.0" in the news...

2006-07-05 Thread Gerry Hickman
un it. In one of my older machines it was run from > autoexec.bat. The line is still there but remed. You mean you booted into MS-DOS 6.22 and then started WfW from within DOS 6.22? If so, I have to ask why?? -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support we

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS "1.0" in the news...

2006-07-04 Thread Gerry Hickman
which is Windows for Workgroups 3.11. > > On 7/3/06, *Gerry Hickman* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> > wrote: > > Jim Hall wrote: > > >> *Almost fully compatible with MS-DOS* (?) > > LOL, what about the fact it's 100 times

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS "1.0" in the news...

2006-07-03 Thread Gerry Hickman
Jim Hall wrote: >> *Almost fully compatible with MS-DOS* (?) LOL, what about the fact it's 100 times better and more modern than MS-DOS?!? -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre

Re: [Freedos-user] Glad to know FreeDOS move fast again!

2006-07-03 Thread Gerry Hickman
Jim Hall wrote: > Warning: if you have slow dialup, visit > http://johnson.tmfc.net/dos/index.html instead. The top-level page has > a 769kb photograph. Yes it's a nice photo, but it took ages to load! -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need

Re: [Freedos-user] FRISK Software stops development of F-Prot Antivirus for DOS

2006-07-03 Thread Gerry Hickman
Robert Riebisch wrote: > It seems, that FRISK Software has stopped further development of the DOS > version of F-Prot Antivirus. File 316F.NEW reads: "3.16f is expected to > be the last version of the DOS scanner." Bad news?!? -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) Using Tomcat

Re: [Freedos-user] Glad to know FreeDOS move fast again!

2006-07-03 Thread Gerry Hickman
uot; in the left frame. > The latest driver not only do UltraDMA, also can REPLACE the bulky > SMARTDRV, NORTON CACHE and CACHE2 ... But not for SCSI and SATAII? ATA/IDE disks have pretty much died... -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support w

Re: [Freedos-user] Mailing list vs forum

2006-06-16 Thread Gerry Hickman
rosoft newsgroups just by clicking on nntp://news.microsoft.com It's a choice of the community what they want to run. Most open source projects have web sites, but only forward-thinking projects like Mozilla have NNTP. -- Gerry Hickman

Re: [Freedos-user] Mailing list vs forum

2006-06-16 Thread Gerry Hickman
Gerry Hickman wrote: > easy to skip over. I don't know how, but the NNTP groups have a lot less > spam than a year ago. I never see all that V_iagra stuff anymore. Interesting! Before I put the underscore in the line above, sourceforge refused to post my message! -- Gerry Hickman

Re: [Freedos-user] Mailing list vs forum

2006-06-16 Thread Gerry Hickman
point, yes. It's great when you're collaborating on a project, but it's not so good when you want to be able to look back over earlier discussions, it's also difficult if you're busy with other stuff and can't be on IRC all the time. -- Gerry Hickman (London UK)

Re: [Freedos-user] SYS A: C:

2006-06-16 Thread Gerry Hickman
restore them back again. I don't know if this is true or not, but I've certainly done similar things with WinImage and it worked fine, but maybe WinImage is able to calculate geometry?? -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) ___ Freedos-user mailing l

Re: [Freedos-user] SYS A: C:

2006-06-15 Thread Gerry Hickman
Gerry Hickman wrote: > OK, I guess I could use a FAT16 partition instead; if I do this, is > there some way to install the DOS 6.22 boot sector to C: without > actually inserting a floppy? e.g. read the saved boot sector from somewhere? OK, I tried it with a FAT16 partition 1. FD

Re: [Freedos-user] Want to read FreeDOS mails in a sensible order

2006-06-15 Thread Gerry Hickman
of everything else. > > > Yup, that's how I read the lists ... threads, and filtering mailing list > stuff into a separate folder. > > -jh > > -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] SYS A: C:

2006-06-13 Thread Gerry Hickman
some way to install the DOS 6.22 boot sector to C: without actually inserting a floppy? e.g. read the saved boot sector from somewhere? -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.source

Re: [Freedos-user] SYS A: C:

2006-06-12 Thread Gerry Hickman
> So I should have issued > > SYS B: C: > > It probably still won't work, but at least I'll be using the correct > command. OK, this time it found the MS-DOS boot sector on the floppy and said something like "MS boot sector not supported

Re: [Freedos-user] SYS A: C:

2006-06-11 Thread Gerry Hickman
nd with the /OEM:MS switch in the past but couldn't get it to work. The purpose of this is to trick Windows setup into thinking it's upgrading from MS-DOS, otherwise it puts FreeDOS on a dual boot menu as my "Previous Operating System". Kenneth J. Davis wrote: > Gerry Hick

[Freedos-user] SYS A: C:

2006-06-09 Thread Gerry Hickman
insert an MS-DOS 6.22 system floppy into A: and type SYS A: C: (I want to install MS-DOS boot-sector, IO.SYS and MSDOS.SYS to C:) What happens next?? It installs FreeDOS boot sector, and kernel to the C drive!! That's not what I told it to do... -- Gerry Hickman (Lond

Re: [Freedos-user] FDISK bug (sorry I don't know how to use bugzilla)

2006-06-07 Thread Gerry Hickman
_____ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] Lan Card drivers

2006-04-04 Thread Gerry Hickman
itory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) ---

Re: [Freedos-user] [OT] DRM and Free Software...the perspective of the OpenGEM chap

2006-04-04 Thread Gerry Hickman
y it will affect my personal media for some time, but for work I do need to deal with media players for my users. Hell, it's bad enough with three different formats, WMV, QT, RAM let alone DRM as well! -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- This S

Re: [Freedos-user] [OT] DRM and Free Software...the perspective of the OpenGEM chap

2006-03-29 Thread Gerry Hickman
ee Software development. FreeDOS (for instance) does not really help spread multimedia and therefore is largely excluded from the DRM conversation. But what about in the future when only trusted software runs on trusted hardware? Suddenly this wonderful system (FreeDOS) m

Re: [Freedos-user] Instructions for making USB key bootable. . .

2006-03-14 Thread Gerry Hickman
ecide if you're using floppy emulation or hard-disk emulation; it doesn't make sense (to me) that they can be interchangeable? It's a bit like El-Torito vs CD-ROM A: drive emulation - two different things... -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) -

Re: [Freedos-user] Any volunteers interested in testing USB stick booting?

2006-02-22 Thread Gerry Hickman
or their Flash drives that will turn them into bootable "DOS" drive, but I think it uses Win98 boot sector and IO.SYS. -- End From Earlier Posting -- -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do

Re: [Freedos-user] Dual Boot WindowsXP and FreeDOS - Alpha testers needed

2006-02-14 Thread Gerry Hickman
Gerry Hickman wrote: This was perfect until head office upgraded to Windows Server 2003 and now it doesn't work because FreeDOS can't use Kerberos, or sign the SMB packets:( Oops, as Eric Auer points out, it's not that FreeDOS can't use Kerberos, but more a case of an up

Re: [Freedos-user] Dual Boot WindowsXP and FreeDOS - Alpha testers needed

2006-02-14 Thread Gerry Hickman
ause FreeDOS can't use Kerberos, or sign the SMB packets:( Looks like I'll need to use WinPE:( -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! D

Re: [Freedos-user] Dual Boot WindowsXP and FreeDOS - Alpha testers needed

2006-02-04 Thread Gerry Hickman
connect to corporate networks from FreeDOS at all. -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your lo

Re: [Freedos-user] re: Dual Boot WindowsXP and FreeDOS - Alpha testers needed

2006-02-03 Thread Gerry Hickman
rver GX270/GX280 and PE2850 (Intel chipset) using their supplied USB 2.0 128Mb data-stick and it seems very fast... -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for probl

Re: [Freedos-user] Dual Boot WindowsXP and FreeDOS - Alpha testers needed

2006-02-03 Thread Gerry Hickman
;m talking about doing it BEFORE you have installed any applications! -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that

Re: [Freedos-user] Dual Boot WindowsXP and FreeDOS - Alpha testers needed

2006-02-02 Thread Gerry Hickman
hat can authenticate against Kerberos. 2. SMB signing is now the default on Windows networks and FreeDOS can't sign SMB packets. -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log fil

Re: [Freedos-user] Re: XCDROM bug?

2006-01-16 Thread Gerry Hickman
s go wrong and can't be read/written to by Windows (or anything else) until they're reformatted. Sometimes you also get "hard" errors where the low level format gets messed up. If he's using a UDF disk, I'm surprised it reads

Re: [Freedos-user] Hi, and a "what the..?"-type query...

2005-12-09 Thread Gerry Hickman
_ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 2.08/Nomyso 2.0 Available

2005-12-01 Thread Gerry Hickman
and I've not seen a single problem. It also gets round some strange issues you sometimes see when the prog don't like prot-mode. One I can think of is Partition Magic under DOS which does not like EMM386 to be loaded, complaining there's only 32Mb of RAM because of it. -- Gerry Hic

Re: [Freedos-user] Improve FORMAT status with "counter"

2005-12-01 Thread Gerry Hickman
quick format instead. -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the w

Re: [Freedos-user] RAID and Free DOS

2005-11-25 Thread Gerry Hickman
r o/s) would depend on whether this new controller has got it's own BIOS. -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine t

Re: [Freedos-user] long live hotmail :(

2005-11-25 Thread Gerry Hickman
d think Microsoft would have a decent AV program installed on Hotmail servers, but it could be they did detect the virus, stripped it out, but then allowed the plain text part of the message to get through (which is almost as bad!) -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --

Re: [Freedos-user] long live hotmail :(

2005-11-24 Thread Gerry Hickman
Hi Bernd, Anyone else seeing massive virus outbreaks? I assume you mean you are receiving lots of emails with viruses attached, which is not really a "virus outbreak", but merely spam which is normal. Or do you mean the actual Hotmail system has been hit by a virus? -- Ger

Re: [Freedos-user] XDMA v2.6 available!

2005-11-18 Thread Gerry Hickman
systems or into squeezing out every byte of free RAM, you probably better use the normal UDMA2 driver instead. OK, thanks again. -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the JBoss Inc. Get Certified Today Register

Re: [Freedos-user] Booting from USB

2005-11-18 Thread Gerry Hickman
out there and it does not work then we need to know because that's bad. -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the JBoss Inc. Get Certified Today Register for a JBoss Training Course. Free Certification Exam for

Re: [Freedos-user] Booting from USB

2005-11-18 Thread Gerry Hickman
ter to the USB boot device, and that implies BIOS emulation and therefore BIOS ability to read/write to a USB device. (I'm sure you're right I just haven't seen it this way round). -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- This SF.N

Re: [Freedos-user] Booting from USB

2005-11-18 Thread Gerry Hickman
b memory stick and I'm pretty sure you end up with FAT12, but it certainly works. I never tried it on high capacity memory sticks and anyway it would be a bit silly as FreeDOS only needs a few KB. Dell also have a utility for their Flash drives that will turn them into bootable "DOS" dri

Re: [Freedos-user] Booting from USB

2005-11-18 Thread Gerry Hickman
Hi Eric, Of course you will then need a DOS USB driver first before you can run SYS on the drive... I recommend USBASPI4 and ASPIDISK But surely if the user's BIOS supports booting from USB it will also support USB emulation and if it does, the user won't need any USB drivers...

Re: [Freedos-user] Network setup

2005-11-18 Thread Gerry Hickman
not be practical for someone who wants to use it for the first time though. -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the JBoss Inc. Get Certified Today Register for a JBoss Training Course. Free Certification Exam f

Re: [Freedos-user] XDMA v2.6 available!

2005-11-18 Thread Gerry Hickman
even if it won't be used? 3. Is it the new FreeDOS UDMA2, or is it an alternative to UDMA2? -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the JBoss Inc. Get Certified Today Register for a JBoss Training Course.

Re: [Freedos-user] Network setup

2005-11-16 Thread Gerry Hickman
e tried a range of 3com, Intel, Broadcom, PICO PCMCIA plus whatever Toshiba use in their older laptops. Do you know of any specific NICs that don't work? -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the JBoss Inc.

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS/Windows Networks - no interop (Win2003)

2005-11-16 Thread Gerry Hickman
completely different because they both support client implementation for SMB signing but DOS does not support it. -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the JBoss Inc. Get Certified Today Register for a JBoss Tra

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS/Windows Networks - no interop (Win2003)

2005-11-15 Thread Gerry Hickman
h networks, and everyone on Windows is upgrading. I can't think of any solution to this; do we have any client software that supports Kerberos authentication or SMB signing?! -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- This SF.Net email is sp

Re: [Freedos-user] XDMA v2.5 available!

2005-11-10 Thread Gerry Hickman
et/geronimo.php ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenge

Re: [Freedos-user] Re: MS-DOS 7.10 ISO & Windows 3.1 drivers

2005-11-04 Thread Gerry Hickman
s ATI are obsessed with getting into bed with Microsoft, so they design everything to fit with whatever DirectX specification is the flavor of the month although the good news is that I'm seeing more and more Linux drivers on sites that used to be Windows only. -- Gerry Hickman (London UK)

Re: [Freedos-user] MS-DOS 7.10 ISO CD image bootable

2005-11-03 Thread Gerry Hickman
ld bootable images of any of these o/s at any time. Note also that if you are going to use MSCLIENT you have to be very careful to match HIMEM, EMM386 with IFSHLP.SYS. Note also that Dos622 is fussy about the actual sector locations of IO.SYS and MSDOS.SYS --

Re: [Freedos-user] [Fwd: [freedos] Installing a DOS App and Having it Run Fullscreen?]

2005-11-02 Thread Gerry Hickman
<*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/freedos/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://doc

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS operating systems

2005-11-01 Thread Gerry Hickman
he FreeDOS FDConfig.sys even tries to load the VIDE driver first... -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 4

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS operating systems

2005-11-01 Thread Gerry Hickman
te problems with the CD driver, you may want to try VIDE-CDD.SYS -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered

Re: [Freedos-user] ping?

2005-10-31 Thread Gerry Hickman
ems will never be native in DOS. There's not even an opensource SMB client for DOS. UDF is some kind of (read-only? packet writing?) filesystem for DVDs? Yup, well even a UDF reader would be good. This is where you use a CD-RW like a giant floppy. It _can_ work under DOS, I remember an A

Re: [Freedos-user] ping?

2005-10-28 Thread Gerry Hickman
sses my mind a lot is "Should I be using Linux for boot environments instead of FreeDOS?". I don't know the answer, but I imagine Linux will cope with very modern hardware such as x64 and protected execution, serial SCSI, USB and so on, but right now FreeDOS does everything I need.

Re: [Freedos-user] re: EMM386 2.05 update, recommended for all

2005-09-20 Thread Gerry Hickman
calls like function 8 or 48 when the stack is in UMB space... And it would be really nice to know more about that oddity. I completely agree. -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 2.05 update, recommended for all

2005-09-20 Thread Gerry Hickman
VDS? Maybe that's the correct thing to do when using SCSI? Oh, 3.5) I was bored and it was a mild diversion. And, 3.75) It gave me an excuse to start working with Perl and Cygwin-based utils a bit more Excellent idea! -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --

Re: [Freedos-user] EMM386 2.05 update, recommended for all

2005-09-19 Thread Gerry Hickman
ng out to charities based on it's popularity?? -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42"

Re: sys Was: Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK issue with Windows Build

2005-09-11 Thread Gerry Hickman
cally dealing with licensing). Can you let me know where we're up to? As I remember it, the idea is that SYS will read a user supplied boot sector, add correct geometry info and write the full boot sector to the hard drive being SYS'd... -- Gerry Hic

Re: [Freedos-user] Re: how to setup network on freedos

2005-09-05 Thread Gerry Hickman
ith latest HIMEM and UMBPCI and suddenly I've got more conventional memory than I know what to do with. Best real-mode o/s I've ever used. -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conferenc

Re: [Freedos-user] Re: how to setup network on freedos

2005-09-04 Thread Gerry Hickman
correct NDIS drivers and starts the network. I looked at Bart's modular disk, but in the end decided to just make my own. Here's the article I used to learn how to do it: <http://www.microsoft.com/technet/itsolutions/network/deploy/confeat/tcpboot.m

Re: [Freedos-user] Laplink-like program available

2005-09-04 Thread Gerry Hickman
Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19

Re: [Freedos-user] New CABExtract port

2005-08-24 Thread Gerry Hickman
es Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.ne

Re: sys Was: Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK issue with Windows Build

2005-08-21 Thread Gerry Hickman
mmend their use. On top of this, we're only using this boot sector for about 10 minutes (until Windows setup begins). its all already written, I just need to add the glue logic to sys for a user supplied boot sector instead of using compiled in one (something I've been plann

Re: [Freedos-user] Q from user

2005-08-20 Thread Gerry Hickman
the same result. CHKDSK indicates no bad sectors. The user does not indicate the method they are using to transfer the download to the floppy. Basically, you have to download the zip file to a hard drive (or whatever), and then use rawrite.exe to extract it to the bootable floppy. -- Gerr

Re: sys Was: Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK issue with Windows Build

2005-08-19 Thread Gerry Hickman
to get 4k cluster size) 3. FD SYS (tell it to grab Win9x boot sector from user) 4. Start Windows Installer and off it goes Simple:) (except I'm not the one who has to write the program) -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- SF.Net email

Re: sys Was: Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK issue with Windows Build

2005-08-19 Thread Gerry Hickman
/ and then choose "Documentation" it takes me to something completely different, with FAQs, and I can't find the actual docs related to command line switches... -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK issue with Windows Build

2005-08-18 Thread Gerry Hickman
eigh the annoyance of the dual boot behavior, so I'll still use FreeDOS and just learn to live with the BOOT.INI problem. Anyway, I have to test PC set up and available for at least a week so if you want me to run any more tests just let me know.

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK issue with Windows Build

2005-08-18 Thread Gerry Hickman
000 FDISK /activate /pri:2 MS FORMAT c: (Note this is MS-DOS Format!) this installs MS bootsector. Right. There's a small chance FD FORMAT creates a slightly different filesystem compared to MS FORMAT. Add to that the 2 different bootsectors, and that might explain things then.

[Freedos-user] Posting delays

2005-08-18 Thread Gerry Hickman
n the archive either and still isn't. It seems messages posted later than mine got through earlier... -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK issue with Windows Build

2005-08-18 Thread Gerry Hickman
erfectly So there we are. For some reason /OEM:MS does not appear to perfectly mirror the use of MS-DOS FORMAT command. -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22,

Re: [Freedos-user] SMART and SCSI?

2005-08-14 Thread Gerry Hickman
. I think this kind of tool makes a good addition to any FreeDOS hardware test CD - check the health and history of your hard drives before installing stuff. -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software C

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK issue with Windows Build

2005-08-13 Thread Gerry Hickman
*kernel 2034, 2035, 2035A and the CVS kernel I see 2.0.35a on SourceForge, so that must be the Kernel I need. Sorry, I've just realized I'm already running kernel 2.0.35a :) -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- SF.Net email is Sp

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK issue with Windows Build

2005-08-13 Thread Gerry Hickman
u've put description "{roughly 0.84pre}", so I'll go with that one for the COMMAND.COM -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisc

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK issue with Windows Build

2005-08-11 Thread Gerry Hickman
they are HEAD, and I believe I need the "unstable" branch to test this... -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Developm

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK issue with Windows Build

2005-08-11 Thread Gerry Hickman
Hi Bernd, I can confirm this: strangely upgrading from DOS 6.22, Win2000setup doesn't finish and I get a spontaneous reboot during last phase of setup. I've not seen this before, it could be specific to the box. -- Gerry Hickman

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK issue with Windows Build

2005-08-11 Thread Gerry Hickman
shoddy "plastic" style engineering. -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Drive

Re: [Freedos-user] Posts not showing up?

2005-08-10 Thread Gerry Hickman
Hi Aitor, Same happened to me last night too... Glad to read this, I am becoming an anti-spam paranoid... Well, suddenly they have all shown up, but three days late:) Maybe it's all fixed now. -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- S

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK issue with Windows Build

2005-08-09 Thread Gerry Hickman
he Windows NT/2000 boot loader menu 1. Windows 2000 2. MS-DOS (as opposed to "Previous Operating System on C:") Hehe, so I guess there's a difference between simply using DOS 6.22 format, and actually using DOS 6.22 SYS. Maybe the IO.SYS, MSDOS.SYS and COMMAND.COM cause the

[Freedos-user] Posts not showing up?

2005-08-09 Thread Gerry Hickman
Hi, Since this Saturday, my posts are not showing up on this list until I re-post them about three times? There's no bounce message, they just disappear... -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Sof

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK issue with Windows Build

2005-08-09 Thread Gerry Hickman
f SYS uses BOOTONLY without the forward slash - at least according to the help file. I always check command /? before running anything! Thanks again, sorry for not understanding the notation used for files. -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK issue with Windows Build

2005-08-09 Thread Gerry Hickman
he Windows NT/2000 boot loader menu 1. Windows 2000 2. MS-DOS (as opposed to "Previous Operating System on C:") Hehe, so I guess there's a difference between simply using DOS 6.22 format, and actually using DOS 6.22 SYS. Maybe the IO.SYS, MSDOS.SYS and COMMAND.COM cause the issue.

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK issue with Windows Build

2005-08-09 Thread Gerry Hickman
t into MS-DOS 6.22", that's something I won't know until I've run the tests. If I can get the files today (Sunday) I can test around Tuesday. Monday is out because of multiple hard drive crashes on Dell systems that I need to fix first. Bernd Blaauw wrote: Gerry Hickman sc

[Freedos-user] Posts not showing up?

2005-08-09 Thread Gerry Hickman
Hi, Since this Saturday, my posts are not showing up on this list until I re-post them about three times? There's no bounce message, they just disappear... -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Sof

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK issue with Windows Build

2005-08-09 Thread Gerry Hickman
he Windows NT/2000 boot loader menu 1. Windows 2000 2. MS-DOS (as opposed to "Previous Operating System on C:") Hehe, so I guess there's a difference between simply using DOS 6.22 format, and actually using DOS 6.22 SYS. Maybe the IO.SYS, MSDOS.SYS and COMMAND.COM cause the issue.

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS FDISK issue with Windows Build

2005-08-08 Thread Gerry Hickman
uses BOOTONLY without the forward slash - at least according to the help file. I always check command /? before running anything! Thanks again, sorry for not understanding the notation used for files. -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) --- SF.Net em

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