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
I don't know if this is of any help, but I seem to recall running DOS on an
old Dell laptop and pressing a key combination, (Fn and F8 possibly, but I
wouldn't put money on it) to switch to the external monitor. Being a HP,
the key would be different, (maybe F2) but it's got to be worth a try...
H
I've got a similar setup, however I use WordPerfect 5.1. I really am too
easily distracted!
On Sat, 27 Jan 2024, 22:52 Dan Schmidt via Freedos-user, <
freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> Now, that's an interesting use for a Dos/FreeDos retro computer:
>
>
> https://www.theverge.com/2014/
Sorry I couldn't make this one, which I've been looking forward to.
Something, (football) came up! I'll see you all next time. 😁
On Sun, 27 Aug 2023, 18:57 Jim Hall via Freedos-user, <
freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> Thanks to everyone for joining today's FreeDOS virtual get-together
I've installed freedos because I'm writing my second novel, but I'm easily
distracted, so I wanted a machine with a decent word processor,
(Wordperfect 5.1) and no internet access or games to distract me. I have
deleted the games folder, but accidentally installed MS Word 5, which will
do the job.
I've decided that it's probably easier to just boot from the usb stick, and
then I can use the hard drive for something else.
On Sun, 23 Jul 2023, 21:53 Rugxulo via Freedos-user, <
freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, Jul 22, 2023 at 2:44 AM Jo
5.1 and my distraction-free writing machine
will be finished!
Oh yeah, and I have to uninstall the games. :-)
On Sat, 22 Jul 2023, 03:23 Ralf Quint via Freedos-user, <
freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> On 7/21/2023 2:01 PM, John Vella via Freedos-user wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
&g
Hi,
I installed freedos on my IBM Thinkpad T43 and I installed a usb driver,
which works. Sort of.
I can access a 2gb usb stick, which is formatted to FAT32, and that's
great, but I want to use a different stick.
This is where the problems begin. It's a 128gb stick. If I find a way to
create a F
I have an IBM Thinkpad T43 and also either an R40 or R60, (I'd have to go
upstairs and check) so if your laptop is either one of those, let me
know and I'll try an install.
On Fri, 21 Jul 2023 at 03:18, tom ehlert via Freedos-user <
freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> > I have it myself
Hi,
Since this is a FreeDOS group, I'm going to assume this is the operating
system you want to boot. I believe that you can create a working FreeDOS
installation on USB, however I can't test it this evening, as I am busy
doing other testing, of an alcohol based nature!
I'd say give it a go. What
I don't know if this is any help but I am currently installing FreeDOS
using PCem, on an Atom based Stick PC.
What are you planning on using the legacy os for?
On Wed, 1 Mar 2023, 19:20 Ben Hutchinson, wrote:
> I found what seemed to be a good Intel x86 based SBC over at
> https://up-shop.org/u
I would be tempted to install windows xp, which I believe this laptop
shipped with, then install virtual pc, (the version before Microsoft bought
it) and run the various dos/Windows 3.1 machines in a virtual environment.
Or install linux and find a virtual pc solution for that.
Dos and win 3.1 do
That sounds like the sort of thing I'd be interested in doing, but what
sort of article are they looking for? Are they after a "history of FreeDOS"
type article, because that's been done so many times it would be hard to
write anything original, wouldn't it?
I look forward to hearing your thoughts
I can't do any research at the moment, (busy doing the night before prep
for a funeral) but I did a quick Google search, using the words "usb mouse
driver for dos" without the quotes, and that bought up a shed load of
potentially useful hits.
Hope this helps.
On Sun, 15 Jan 2023, 19:28 Knedlik,
0:03:55 +0100, John Vella wrote:
> > What's the game you're trying to run
>
> https://archive.org/details/msdos_Wargame_Construction_Set_II_-_TANKS_1994
>
>
> > and how much RAM do you have?
>
> More than 640k (1GB?).
>
> /Tomas
>
>
> ___
What's the game you're trying to run and how much RAM do you have?
I'm just thinking that if we can try and replicate the issue we might be
able to figure it out.
On Mon, 28 Nov 2022, 18:08 Tomas By, wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Nov 2022 17:32:19 +0100, tom ehlert wrote:
> > run without JEMM386
>
>
> I
In my opinion, the only advantage is that long file names are more
descriptive than 8.3 but that being said, I'm old and used to coming up
with short but descriptive names, so I'm not really bothered one way or the
other.
On Mon, 7 Nov 2022, 13:09 Joseph Norton, wrote:
> Hi listers:
>
>
>
> I’m
A good work-life balance is really important, so I guess I'll see you guys
next year! 😁
On Mon, 3 Oct 2022, 00:31 Jim Hall, wrote:
> Hi everyone!
>
> I've managed to overload myself - that's good for a consultant, but
> bad for work-life balance. (That's also why I've been so silent on
> email l
OK, so the cat is now awake, and I have installed a fresh copy of FreeDOS
1.3 on VirtualBox. The DVD is visible. This is weird.
Can you copy and paste the contents of your fdauto.bat file into an email,
to help with further diagnosis?
On Sun, 18 Sept 2022 at 20:44, John Vella wrote:
> A
Glenn Holmer via Freedos-user, <
freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> On 9/18/22 14:12, John Vella wrote:
> > You should look at fdauto.bat, copy and paste the relevant lines into
> > the copy on your hard drive and copy the files it calls into the dos
> folder
You should look at fdauto.bat, copy and paste the relevant lines into the
copy on your hard drive and copy the files it calls into the dos folder.
I think that'll work. :)
On Sun, 18 Sep 2022, 19:56 Glenn Holmer via Freedos-user, <
freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> On 9/18/22 12:58, R
I've starred the email and look forward to seeing you all next week.
On Sat, 11 Jun 2022, 21:32 Jim Hall, wrote:
> Hi everyone
>
> If you'd like to get to know each other "in person," join our FreeDOS
> virtual get-together, coming up next week on Sunday, June 19 at 11am
> US/Central (use your f
wnload/290-file-managers/1467-file-wizard-1-35,
> like using Norton commander but better.
>
> What kind of 486 do you run ?
>
> Bear
>
>
> Den 2022-03-31 kl. 12:49, skrev John Vella:
>
> I am using edit at the moment,so it might be safer to stick with that. By
>
.com from DOS, i'm using it and works
> just fine.
>
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 11:37 AM John Vella wrote:
>
>> Ooh, that's good to know. I'll have to check how many lines per chapter.
>>
>> I'm also tempted to dig out another old drive, install wind
n use FreeDOS edit, but don't use for big files... can't handle 2968
> lines
>
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 12:59 PM John Vella wrote:
>
>> I'll be honest and say I'm starting to second guess myself here...
>> Reading a totally unrelated email at work this mo
I'll be honest and say I'm starting to second guess myself here... Reading
a totally unrelated email at work this morning, I wondered why I'm even
bothering with wordperfect. I only need a basic text editor. I'm not
interested in spell check, as I'll do that on the editing machine, so
bringing it d
fun!
I'll end this by saying I also got a surprise when the machine started
working as I was convinced it had 4Mb of ram but it turns out that it's got
8 meg!
On Tue, 29 Mar 2022, 23:00 dmccunney, wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 2:40 PM John Vella wrote:
>
> > So, I&#
Hi Eric!
I do have the img images for wordperfect, which I have transferred to
floppy disk. The pc doesn't boot from cd, in fact I can't even get the bios
to recognise the cd drive, as the hard drive parameters have to be manually
entered. I have an isa sound Blaster awe 64 value, with ide connect
Hi,
So, I've got the 486 computer working and am ready to install freedos and
wordperfect.
I'm thinking there are a couple of advantages to installing onto a
virtualbox machine, then formatting the physical hard drive and copying the
contents over.
It would be a lot quicker to install and I'd ha
4pm local time for those in the UK. I look forward to seeing you all then.
😀
On Sun, 20 Mar 2022, 04:02 Jim Hall, wrote:
> Hi everyone!
>
> Don't forget- our next FreeDOS virtual get-together is in 12 hours, at *11am
> US/Central on Sunday, March 20.*
>
> I'll share the link to the virtual meeti
Equally newb reply... It's there any advantage over installing virtualbox
and running freedos there?
On Thu, 17 Feb 2022, 23:29 Joseph Kelchner, wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I’m wondering if Freedos could be used as my operating system on a Windows
> 10 pro Hyper-V Virtual Machine?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Joe
>
That sounds interesting. I really hope I can make it and if not, that there
will be an opportunity to watch a replay.
On Thu, 3 Feb 2022, 18:13 Jim Hall, wrote:
> Hi everyone
>
> I thought you might be interested in my conference talk at FOSDEM on
> Saturday *this week*. I'm talking about the hi
My problem is that I sit down wanting to write a chapter or two, and the
ideas are in my head, (no, really!) but then I'll accidentally fire up
YouTube or even worse, Kick Off 2 Online. Once that happens, the chances of
getting any work done are reduced to virtually zero!
On Sun, 26 Dec 2021, 16:2
I'm guessing that I'm the only one who isn't interested in connecting to
the Internet using freedos. I wouldn't have a problem with others doing
it,but for me it would be yet another distraction. 😀
On Sat, 25 Dec 2021, 14:19 Travis Siegel, wrote:
> How very cool. Wasn't aware that had been done
I'm going to make it my new year project to finish getting the 80486 pc
working, and once I've upgraded the memory, (4 Meg isn't going to be
enough, is it?) I'll be using freedos as the only operating system for my
distraction free writing pc.
On Fri, 24 Dec 2021, 22:00 Jim Hall, wrote:
> On Fri
Hi all,
If this month's virtual get-together is social time, would everybody be OK
with me installing FreeDOS on an old Toshiba laptop, and giving a running
commentary, (occasional updates, not literally "I'm plugging in the USB
stick!) while we're chatting away?
Cheers,
John.
PS. I will probab
A link would be really useful. :)
On Fri, 19 Nov 2021, 18:25 Ralf Quint, wrote:
> On 11/17/2021 2:32 PM, Jim Hall wrote:
>
> Hi everyone!
>
> Every month, we do a virtual get-together. It's a great opportunity to see
> each other "in person" and get to know each other a little better.
>
> The vi
Agree!
On Thu, 14 Oct 2021, 07:33 Thomas Mueller, wrote:
> from Jim Hall:
>
>
> > I don't know why the sources later had an "AMD" statement put on them,
> > but you cannot claim "proprietary" or "copyright" on something that
> > was previously released under the GNU General Public License.
>
> >
Cool! You never know, I might finally get around to finishing putting
together my 486 PC. That'll be fun!
On Tue, 20 Apr 2021, 10:40 Jerome Shidel, wrote:
> Clear your calendar and get ready!
>
> FreeDOS 1.3-RC4 is only days away.
>
> RC4 is in it’s final stage of testing and tweaking.
>
> There
Sorry guys, couldn't make it today, as it's the wife's birthday. Next time!
😁
On Sun, 21 Feb 2021, 17:40 Ralf Quint, wrote:
> On 2/21/2021 9:37 AM, Geraldo Netto wrote:
> > Hi folks!
> >
> > Is it still happening?
>
> Yes, we are on with 6 guys right now, just come on in... ;-)
>
> Ralf
>
>
>
>
Hi guys,
Apologies if I'm way off target here, as I am no FreeDOS expert, but as
soon as I read the words "Opcode error" my first thought was has he tried
pressing tab and adding the word raw to the end of the command line in the
boot options?
Hope this helps,
John.
On Sun, 10 Jan 2021 at 14:4
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