Hi Eric:
Sorry, I misread it. That is my method as well - use ISOLINUX.
VFD (Virtual Floppy Driver) is a good, non-Vista, method of
"editing" floppy disk images. It mounts the image file as
a lettered floppy drive and you can copy files, do drag and
drop, or whatever. Executing the "SYS" comma
/Creating_a_Bootable_DOS_CD_V%201.5.pdf
if you are curious. If you try it, let me know how it works out.
This procedure creates the bootable CD from Windows. It may not
work on Vista without a floppy disk drive.
Mark Bailey
Eric Auer wrote:
> Hi Enbor,
>
>> Hi, is there an easy way to make a custom Free
If you want to create a custom ISO file which can be burned to CD and
booted, you can see
http://k1ea.com/hints/Creating_a_Bootable_DOS_CD_V%201.5.pdf
Mark
勇顺张 wrote:
> hi,everyone
> I'am a noviciate for freedos,I have downloaded the fdbasews.iso from
> Freedos
> Project,at first i think this ca
et/
It at least boots FreeDOS (and MSDOS) fine and will manage to do a "SYS"
to a simulated hard disk. It's a bit clunky to configure, but may be
worth a look.
And, it's open source (and free as in beer!).
Mark Bailey
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Hi Nick:
Well, the product is a floppy disk image file which people can download
and either copy to a real floppy, use in a virtual machine, or use
to create a bootable CD. You would need to boot a version of
FreeDOS with the kernel and command.com that you want to use,
and use the "SYS" command
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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>> one thing which you do have to load before running arachne
>> is a packet driver for your network card. some drivers are
>> already in our distro. please write which network card you
>> use - you can use pcisleep L to find out - and please reply
>> via the list :
Good day, Basudeb:
It is easy to create a FreeDOS bootable CD from Windows.
See http://k1ea.com/hints/Creating_a_Bootable_DOS_CD_V%201.5.pdf
This uses the same technique (isolinux) as the FreeDOS installation
CD and has instructions for FreeDOS and MSDOS.
Hope this helps.
Mark Bailey
basudeb
procedure is less
than 1 MiByte.
I would appreciate feedback from anyone who uses the procedure
so that I can improve it. All of my computers boot both WindowsXP
and DOS! I can do this in under ten minutes - it will take
you a bit longer the first time.
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in under ten minutes - it will take
you a bit longer the first time.
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Hi Samuel:
There is a hardware solution the gaming folks use to connect a wired
computer to a wireless network without requiring any wireless drivers.
These aren't cheap, but they work.
As an example, the Netgear ME101:
http://www.trustedreviews.com/networking/review/2003/12/10/Netgear-ME101-Wir
Not at all. mytempdir is quite slow. If you can provide
another site, I can upload them tomorrow.
Mark
Johnson Lam wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 14:48:00 -0500, you wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>> I have updated my procedure and bootable CD for installing
>> FreeDOS on almost any WindowsXP computer. You
WindowsXP
and DOS! I can do this in under ten minutes - it will take
you a bit longer the first time.
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Oops...I meant EXITING the installer. EXECUTING the installer
will start writing stuff to C:. Exit the installer and use
"SYS D:" from the DOS prompt (A:> IIRC when booted from the CD).
Sorry about that.
Mark
Original Message
Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] installing freedos on
partition can be made bootable with the following DOS
command: "SYS D:" executed after booting the CD and
executing the installer. The desired FreeDOS files can then
be copied to the partition manually. That's how I install
FreeDOS to partitions other than what the CD thinks is C:.
HI Michael:
Once the USB stick is bootable, you can copy the DOS files
needed to the USB stick manually from Windows (or Linux).
If you have FreeDOS installed to a hard disk partition
somewhere, you could copy the files from there. If I
wanted the full FreeDOS installation, I'd install it
to a ha
If you can boot from the USB stick, you don't need and
can't use USBASPI.SYS and DI1000DD.SYS. If the
BIOS will boot the USB stick, it will automatically
appear as either A: or C:. Try that.
Mark
Art Fore wrote:
[...]
>
> Downloaded the USBASPI.SYS and DI1000DD.SYS and have them available.
>
>
Norbert Remmel wrote:
>
> The only thing I don't know is how to create a floppy image file under
> linux or a bootable iso-file with floppy emulation because I'm not
> working with linux based systems.
>
> Norbert.
>
Use mkisofs. See http://www.itg.uiuc.edu/help/mkisofs/mkisofs.htm
(The same
Bernd Blaauw wrote:
> Art Fore schreef:
[...]
>
> Furthermore there's some tool from HP to configure flash USB disks to
> make them bootable. [...]
>
> Bernd
>
Hi Art and Bernd:
I have found this utility to work very well under WindowsXP to make
bootable DOS USB sticks. If you have access t
So, how do I see the usb drive from either another USB drive or from the
> CEROM.
> (I also do not have Windows, only Suse linux 10.1 and the free dos
> cdrom}
>
> Art
>
> On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 15:02 -0400, Mark Bailey wrote:
>> Hi Art:
>>
>> I am far fr
sdd,
> that went ok, but they ended up in sdd1.
>
> Does not make sense to me.
>
> I would like to have the whole 256 meg as dos drive, but the .bin
> and .exe flash burning files do not even show up when booted to dos.
>
> Art
>
> On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 13:13 -0400, Mar
Try copying the files to /dev/sdd
Since you had to do syslinux to /dev/sdd, and /dev/sdd1
didn't look like a valid FAT filesystem, I'm not sure
what the copy to /dev/sdd1 actually did.
Mark
Art Fore wrote:
> Have been trying unsuccessfully for two days to get freedos on a cruzer
> 256 meg memory
tomleem wrote:
> Hi Lester,
>
>
> I wouldn't try to load a "shim" over an NDIS layer
> when all i need is to /get the right/ packet-driver.
>
>
> :-B
>
I wouldn't either, but I have at least two computers with
Ethernet chipsets that don't have packet drivers and it
does work...
Mark
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I have done this on two new computers without available packet
drivers for a DOS networking application. This was done using
MSDOS but should work fro FreeDOS.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Mark Bailey
Lester Vedrox wrote:
> I'm trying to g
would like
to get an idea what is involved. The new procedure is a bit easier.
The CD to do this is about a 35 MiByte download. Let me know
if you are willing to test this and help me refine the procedure.
Thanks.
Mark B
without
modifying the rescue partition.
Mark
Blair Campbell wrote:
> DOS can only boot from C:, so if you don't want it to see a FAT32
> drive, the only way to ignore it is to use the FAT16-only kernel
> flavour.
>
> On 7/15/06, Mark Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
to D:.
Thanks very much for all of your hard work on FreeDOS. I look forward
eagerly to Version 1.0!
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WindowsXP and various flavors of DOS.
Thanks very much in advance!
Mark Bailey
Hello, all:
Has anyone successfully used any of the PCMCIA parallel port
adapters with the provided DOS drivers under FreeDOS? I
would like to if any are known to work with FreeDOS.
Mark Bailey
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ws, and you have only one
> partition, you must reformat and partition your hard drive before you
> can multiboot.
How can we help you get your dual boot machine set up?
Mark Bailey
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Hi Ed:
You can take a look at http://odin.fdos.org/dual/, fdinst091.pdf
for detailed directions on how to do this using Linux tools
to repartition a WindowsXP disk and add a DOS boot option. This
can be done for FreeDOS or MSDOS.
Let me know if you have any questions about this.
Mark Bailey
ernel from http://fdos.org/kernel/?
Thanks very much.
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the HP utility doesn't work from this page.
The same tool can also install MSDOS.
Let us know if you have any questions. A quick posting to the e-mail list
about what you had to do and how it worked might help someone else.
Mark Bailey
Anders Jansson wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I want t
Eric Auer wrote:
> Hi!
>
> jp_freedos / gcfl.net wrote:
>> ... Jim Hall wrote:
>>> I'm sorry my president's an idiot. I didn't vote for him.
>> Clinton is not President anymore.
>
> I think it is obvious that this signature line was not
> about Clinton but about a certain cowboy.
[...]
> But
e SYSLINUX, memdisk, and a floppy disk
image, but that has problems, including that you may not be
able to read and write the memory stick after booting.
Good luck.
Mark Bailey
alan boey wrote:
Command? I have a system with only a HDD and a 256MB
CF card, plus USB ports. I had tried everything to
Good day, Lester:
Have you tried the "development" kernel.sys file from
http://fdos.org/kernel/? Especially if your computer does
not have a floppy disk drive, this may fix a "Bad
or missing command interpreter" error that occurs during
the boot process. I am assuming you did a "sys c: c:"
and t
Michael Devore wrote:
At 04:48 PM 5/3/2006 -0400, Mark Bailey wrote:
Thanks very much. I'll have Steve try to trace the problem. I am
rather DOS illiterate, I'm afraid. What do you mean by "Will the
SCSI base address conflict?" Do you think the BIOS grabs some high
memo
Hi Johnson:
Thanks very much. I'll have Steve try to trace the problem.
I am rather DOS illiterate, I'm afraid. What do you mean by
"Will the SCSI base address conflict?" Do you think the BIOS
grabs some high memory that emm386 might affect? The
current fdconfig.sys loads emm386 without any o
; error
message.
Ditto for d:command.com and d:\command.com.
Entering c:command.com or c:\command.com produces the 8 lines noted above.
-
So, it looks like C: is being recognized...
THanks for your help!
Mark
Michael Devore wrote:
At 09:04 PM 5/2/2006 -0400, Mark Bailey wrote:
ll. Any suggestions? Is there a problem with SCSI
drives?
Thanks.
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Hi Johnson:
It's probably time to update the screen snaps to the new version
of gparted. The new version supposedly allows setting the "LBA"
flag (partition type change) from within gparted instead of
having to use the Linux fdisk, which will simplify the procedure
if it works correctly.
The ne
Good morning, sir:
It is easy to create a CD which boots from a floppy disk image file,
using the same basic technique that Linux uses to boot its kernels.
The key programs to do it this way are mkisofs, to create the
bootable CD file system, and isolinux to boot the Floppy Disk
image.
I wrote u
Arkady V.Belousov wrote:
Hi!
14-Мар-2006 17:21 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Bailey) wrote to
freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net:
T> So, can you direct a fdisk /mbr to remove the mbr on a usb key to get
T> back to the floppy emulation?
As I understand, this is not possible: diskettes
Arkady V.Belousov wrote:
Hi!
15-Мар-2006 08:00 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (TechFan) wrote to
freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net:
T> So, can you direct a fdisk /mbr to remove the mbr on a usb key to get
T> back to the floppy emulation?
As I understand, this is not possible: diskettes do not contai
No, fdisk /mbr writes an MBR (and master boot record)
to the disk. The easiest way to format as superfloppy
(remove the MBR) is to boot a linux Live CD and do
mkdosfs -I /dev/sda
NOT mkdosfs /dev/sda1
(This assumes your version of Linux will recognize the
device as /dev/sda and will reformat t
I have successfully run FreeDOS on several laptops without
any problems. Is it installed in a PRIMARY partition
(formatted FAT16 or FAT32 LBA)?
Is this the same configuration as the desktop (GRUB/Ubuntu)?
What does your GRUB.CONF look like? Something like
title FreeDOS
root (hd0,2)
chainloader
Arkady V.Belousov wrote:
Hi!
2-Мар-2006 09:17 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Bailey) wrote to
freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net:
MB> NTFS partitions (default for XP) do NOT require
MB> defragmentation.
NTFS DO require defragmentaion.
Hi Arkady:
ntfsresize will handle fragmente
Hi Johnson:
Actually, the "fdisk" steps are not really necessary for
FreeDOS, since the FreeDOS kernel will use LBA to access
that partition even if the type is wrong, but it is
necessary for MS-DOS and does eliminate the WARNING:
and Please use fdisk messages...
Mark
Mark Bailey
Hi Johnson:
Great! Yes, FAT32 partitions need to be defragmented first.
I thought that was in there. I just checked...I guess if
you are not running XP, you don't have XP's disk defragmenter!
:-)
NTFS partitions (default for XP) do NOT require
defragmentation. Thanks for the note about /dev/s
Hi Michael:
I received a sealed envelope from you yesterday. It contained
a card with a note about a white cover but no USB stick! :-(
Did the stick fall out or something?
Jeremy is making progress! If I receive a stick, after I test
it do you want me to put an MBR on it? Very easy to change
Davis
for providing space for the CD image on the fdos.org site.
I would welcome any comments or suggestions about how to make
this even easier. All of my computers boot both WindowsXP and
DOS (and some boot Linux as well).
Let me know if you have any questions.
M
ommon. It should work with
SATA disks and I have successfully dual-booted one computer with
an SATA disk drive.
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Kenneth J. Davis wrote:
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The image is about 32.5MB. Does anyone want to try this image? The
directions I have available use the same programs and are quite close.
You could install FreeDOS using this in two reboots and burning only
one CD. I can send you a very detailed PDF procedure.
.
Gerry Hickman wrote:
Hi Mark,
"I just got a brand new computer with WindowsXP. I want
to install FreeDOS on that computer but I don't
want to change my WindowsXP installation."
I've never really understood this.
1. Nearly anything you'd ever want to do in FreeDOS can be done without
goin
Hi Johnson:
I've been thinking about how to make this easier to do.
Again, the target of the dual boot is someone who says
"I just got a brand new computer with WindowsXP. I want
to install FreeDOS on that computer but I don't
want to change my WindowsXP installation."
The procedure I've writt
Hi John:
I was wrong about the boot signature check...you
don't need it.
You can use the ODIN installation floppy disk image
odin1440.img. That's what I did to run FreeDOS in BOCHS.
You can download it from http://odin.fdos.org/odin2005/.
I copied the image odin1440.img to the BOCHS directory.
T
Hi John:
From memory, there is an option (something like check boot
signature) that I had to set to NO to get FreeDOS to boot a
floppy disk image. It is one of the options in the
floppy disk configuration.
Hope that helps. If it doesn't, I can check tomorrow and see
what the exact configuratio
Hi Michael:
FreeDOS does not have any native NTFS access at all. (Neither
does MS-DOS). There is a free (for personal use) driver called
NTFS4DOS available from www.datapol.de that MAY work for your application:
http://www.datapol-technologies.com/dpe/freeware/index.html
It seems to have prob
this happened at all.
Takes maybe 15 minutes after you've done it once! :-)
Mark
Schumacher, Gordon wrote:
Mark Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
# Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:32:55 -0500
# From: Mark Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
# To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net
# Subject: Re: [
Hi Johnson:
Johnson Lam wrote:
On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 18:32:55 -0500, you wrote:
Hi Mark,
> ...Partition Magic discussion...deleted
If it's 100% reliable, still worth to pay them, but it's not!
Not if the free alternatives work and are just as easy to use...
and they are! Grab a new Window
Hi Johnson:
The new machine comes with WindowsXP pre-installed
and configured. Often, people immediately add
software and spend a lot of time configuring it...
I sure do.
My experience suggests that people would rather use an
old, dedicated machine than spend hours re-installing
WindowsXP. I h
Hi Johnson:
I was thinking a bit more about automating this. We
MIGHT be able to grab some stuff from a Linux installer
to automatically, under carefully defined conditions,
shrink the NTFS partition and create a new fat32
partition. AFAIK, it can't be done under DOS at all.
Partition Magic jus
Hi Johnson:
No, this is just an update to the procedure. Heck, I
can't even use the FreeDOS automated installers, since
they trash C: which is often a recovery partition.
I suppose someone more skilled than I could script the
Linux stuff and try to automate this.
Mark
Johnson Lam wrote:
On S
nstalling there.
That probably isn't what you want if C: is a recovery
partition on a laptop or desktop. Sorry about the rash
(and inaccurate) statement...again, the installer does
NOT trash C:.
Mark
Mark Bailey wrote:
Hi Johnson:
No, this is just an update to the procedure. Heck, I
can&#x
nt to help test this, please send me an e-mail and
I'll send you the current draft of the procedure. After a
few volunteers run through it, I'll get the updated procedure
posted on the web somewhere.
Thanks.
Mark Bailey
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contained the individual files.
When burning CD using XP I normally use the XP's own burner.
I will try as you described.
Thanks again
regards alan
Mark Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Alan:
When you do a "dir" on the CD or floppy disk (or an ls in Linux or
Hi Alan:
When you do a "dir" on the CD or floppy disk (or an ls in Linux or
using Windows Explorer), do you see a single file (fdbootcd.iso or
freedos_beta9.dsk)? If so, then you created the floppy disk wrong
or burned the CD wrong.
To burn a bootable CD, if you are using WindowsXP, you can dow
Hi Bernd:
Thanks. I checked odin.fdos.org, but didn't see this subdirectory!
Mark
Bernd Blaauw wrote:
Mark Bailey schreef:
Good day, all:
Has anyone assembled a reasonably current FreeDOS boot floppy
suitable for just running DOS? I have one, including the new
emm386 and himem files
hard work making
FreeDOS useful! The ODIN has a lot of setup menus,
Ripcord appears very out of date, there are a couple of
CD-based distros now,
Mark Bailey
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This appears to be a pirated copy of MS-DOS 7.1, probably
taken from Windows98SE. The original web site,
yginfo.net, disappeared some time ago.
Chema wrote:
FYI:
MS-DOS 7.10 Installation CD
===
This is MS-DOS 7.10 Installation CD, which includes MS-DOS 7.10 Full
Versio
Hi Michael:
Does this provide a means of easily identifying the affected
machines? How do I check the Haunted HP Pavilion? :-)
Mark
Michael Devore wrote:
At 12:42 PM 7/29/2005 -0500, I wrote:
Ha! That's it. Some SCSI BIOS uses INT 4BH. It must be passing the
register value that VDS inter
Michael Devore wrote:
At 07:51 AM 7/26/2005 -0400, Mark wrote:
It is happening on multiple machines. (Only one of which I have
access to). I suspect the large amount of free space on the drive,
actually. I think that the divide by zero might actually be for
real.
It appears to be correlat
. Aren't there potential problems with files larger
than 4GB or more than 4GB free space?
This is with their recent patch, but that was just replacing
the DOS extender with Causeway.
Mark
Michael Devore wrote:
At 01:29 AM 7/26/2005 +0000, Mark Bailey wrote:
I have another FreeDOS problem
kernels. I have not
tried all of the stable kernels you listed.
Mark
Bernd Blaauw wrote:
Mark Bailey schreef:
Good morning:
In all of my flailing around about MBR's, I do believe that I have
found a kernel bug. The failure of the FreeDOS kernel to initialize
with the "incorrect&
e. :-)
(Yes, I can use a different operating system to fix it).
How do I report the bug? I tried the bugzilla link from the
freedos.org home page, but it won't let me create an account.
The bug is that, with an apparently incorrect MBR, the development
kernel refuses to bo
Hi:
Newest EMM386.
Mark
Johnson Lam wrote:
On Mon, 18 Jul 2005 09:55:32 -0400, you wrote:
Hi Mark,
The person who did this is very knowledgeable and believes that
FDISK did, in fact, trash the partition table. I had this exact
thing happen to me when running fdisk. FDISK displayed a bunch
dangerous that
even using it to examine partition tables is a bad idea?
Thanks.
Mark Bailey
I haven't looked at fdisk's code in a while, but from my usage, I have
never seen it alter the MBR/partition table without issuing a command
that involves such a change (ie option 4 nev
c Auer and
Michael Devore!
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Hi Michael:
OK, I believe the application does use VGA graphics. :-(
Will try DOS=HIGH only. Thanks! Too bad UMBPCI doesn't
work on all the computers. :-(
Mark
Michael Devore wrote:
At 08:23 AM 7/13/2005 -0400, Mark Bailey wrote:
OK. Development Kernel, Development comman
Hi Michael:
OK. Development Kernel, Development command.com, Development SYS,
new emm386/himem, NTFS4DOS 1.4. The INSTALLHIGH failed.
Interestingly, a "LOADHIGH" failed with ALMOST the same error
and a little more information:
DOS/32A fatal (1001): DOS reported insufficient memory, additiona
Hi Eric:
These were reboots on the same machine. This machine has two FAT32
partitions on the disk in addition to the NTFS partition and is
a laptop currently plugged into a docking station. :-)
The question, of course, is how to configure EMM386 so that
NTFS4DOS doesn't consume so much low me
D may only be used on "private computers"
echo and for "private uses"
echo See www.datapol.de/dpd.
echo Mark Bailey, [EMAIL PROTECTED], July 12, 2005 - Alpha 1.0
SHELL=a:\command.com a:\ /p
DEVICE=A:\FDOS\HIMEM.EXE
DEVICE=a:\fdos\emm386.exe x=test memcheck vd
Good day, all:
I can also provide a floppy disk image if you want to boot from
a floppy disk and try this.
Mark
Mark Bailey wrote:
Good day:
I thought some on this list might be interested in
testing ntfs4dos and FreeDOS as well. The announcement
is for amateur radio logging software users
ISO image, please let me know.
Mark Bailey
Good day, all:
Thanks to the kindness of Datapol gmbh in Germany and the power of
FreeDOS, I am announcing the Alpha test version 1.0 of the DOS
Contesting LiveCD. I need volunteers to test this and
report back. Please let me know if you are willing
WindowsXP to use it.
The procedure as written is a bit MSDOS centric. Please
let me know if you have any comments or suggestions.
Mark Bailey
Florian Xaver wrote:
Hi!
Just added a new section to the wiki!
Bye, Flo
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Good morning, Michael, Eric, et al:
The addition of "NOEMS" to the EMM386 startup in config.sys
caused the following error when executing the INSTALLHIGH.
DOS/32A fatal (1002): DOS reported insufficient memory
It did eliminate the complaints about page frames and
no suitable UMB memory block.
ng to help with testing.
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You can install FreeDOS on a new computer and have it dual-boot
with Windows XP as well. This doesn't harm the WindowsXP
installation at all and doesn't require re-installing
WindowsXP. You just put FreeDOS on a trivial amount
of disk space at the end of the drive.
I worked out a detailed proce
Hi Eric:
The catalog file is created by mkisofs and you do not need a
pre-existing file if you are using the El Torito boot method
and a floppy disk image.
To create the CD this way, I BELIEVE the simplest possible
mkisofs command is:
mkisofs -b floppy.img -c catalog -o bootable.iso floppy.img
Hi Eric:
Thanks! Hopefully, lastdrive will fix it. And, I'll check out the
VIDE-CDD driver.
Mark
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Mark, Mans,
as far as I understand, LASTDRIVE is the only problem.
I can think of two simple things. First, try adding the line
LASTDRIVE=Y
to your config.sys file.
Hi Mans:
I can think of two simple things. First, try adding the line
LASTDRIVE=Y
to your config.sys file. In autoexec.bat, you should have a line
for the CDROM driver. Mine is:
mscdex.exe /D:MSCD001 /L:R
(config.sys contains
device=oakcdrom.sys /D:MSCD001)
the "/L:R" sets the CD drive let
Hi Jim:
One option is to create a FAT32 partition on the Windows disk
drive and write to that. This can often be done using the
"free" space left on the end of the disk, or you can
resize the NTFS partition without destroying the data.
See http://www.k1ea.com/hints/DOS%20dual%20boot%20version%201.
Good day, all:
As I have posted before, I have developed a first version of a detailed
procedure to install
DOS (MS-DOS or FreeDOS) on a Windows XP computer, allowing dual-booting
DOS and Windows XP and without destroying the Windows XP installation or
having
to re-install Windows XP. This uses
Hi Leke:
I wrote up a pretty detailed procedure for doing this, though it's a bit
MS-DOS centric. You can
add FreeDOS to a Windows system without damaging the Windows
installation. You can get the
rather large pdf from
http://www.k1ea.com/hints/DOS%20dual%20boot%20version%201.0.pdf
via www.k1e
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