than one primary, even Win7.
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Back in the day I used a Norton Utilities tool to do this.
You might want to go over to ftp.icm.edu.pl and look through their huge
DOS archives to see if there is a date utility there you could use.
Another option would be to whip up a little utility with something like
QBASIC or FreeBasic.
Ray Davison wrote:
[GlassNerves] via Freedos-user wrote:
Using only one HD, is this possible or can cause some conflit?
You all work much too hard. When things were in transition I had
multiple DOS as well as "DOS based" Win all on a single 2G FAT 16 at the
front of the drive.
real boot manager. I did it with System Commander. All
I did was a normal install of each OS. I did not need to fiddle with
anything. SC did all that for me.
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Liam Proven wrote:
This BM and many versions of DOS go way back.
*What* boot manager? I have not seen you specify it.
The only one I know of that name came with OS/2 and is about 25-30
years old, and TBH I would not expect it to work well on modern kit.
Acronis OS Selector V 5.0 2001 (OSS).
he KERNEL location in the tree? Prior to 1.2 it was in the
root, now it is in FDOS\BIN. If I run SYS C: from a 1.1 Floppy, then
copy 1.2 KRNEL386, as KERNEL, over the 1.1 KERNEL, should that leave me
with the 1.2 kernel where it belongs on the drive?
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s?
This is at the top of Bing > "freedos numlock". And there are more
FreeDOS hits.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/active-caps-num-lock/
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Hi Eric:
One of your pictures shows MagnaRAM:
How did you like it, in Win3 / Win95 actually?
I doubt that I ever installed it. Like I said, a lot of that stuff was
acquired because it looked like it might be useful. Most I ever got
around to playing with.
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lieve delete, don't actually move or delete files,
it just rewrites the table, so it is instant.
I am keeping accounting and word processing on DOS so I don't have to
work with a GUI. It is fast, stable, and the files are smaller.
Ray
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I have posted pics of some stuff.
The last pic is two trays of a couple hundred Software of the Month Club
disks - mostly 5.25 and the last few are 3.5, freeware, category general
interest.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/aTdSyfEHbbdhKkxV7
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I also have my first seven PCs. They start at AT.
28Meg, double height HDD.
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Oh and adapters for small devices like laptops, with software to
configure them.
I had a DOS LAN. The cards and disks are here, somewhere.
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be useful someday - including a two pound, still skin-packed,
package to connect DOS to a 3270.
I need the shelf space. Does this stuff have any use to anyone?
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would create his own custom bit-by-bit as he
decided to try something not included in the basic. He could DL the
extras ISO, or get what he wanted from the archive as he wanted it.
I predict that many would not go beyond the basic, and DL of extras
would be spread
o what you call "basic" would be one ISO. Then a blivet ISO of
anything you want to put on it, but no sources or programming apps. Take
a survey. How many want to make or modify DOS apps.
Sources and whatever else is left is archive. With an index/contents
included on
I've got an unusual issue that I've been trying to solve for several
days but have had no luck.
Running FreeDOS in a QEMU-based VM, on a Xen hypervisor (it's actually
the Qubes OS)
I managed to get it all installed and it runs well except for one
problem: Screen refresh is too slow, even wi
a Win laptop sitting at my elbow.
So I am just hopping to keep the current stuff running.
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I have an accounting app from the early 90s. I first ran it under DRDOS
and then FreeDOS for about a decade. I have looked at many other
accounting apps but have not found anything that works better for me.
The primary functions have always worked well. However, a couple
reeDOS 1.1
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> Install to HDD;
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Ray Davison wrote:
> Is it possible to load an exe file system driver in dconfig.sys?
>
> I have a DOS HPFS driver that works OK, but I would like it to get a
> drive letter before the DVDs.
>
> What is available for reading NTFS used in WXP, W7?
Let me explain the actual tas
Is it possible to load an exe file system driver in dconfig.sys?
I have a DOS HPFS driver that works OK, but I would like it to get a
drive letter before the DVDs.
What is available for reading NTFS used in WXP, W7?
TY
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Eric Auer wrote:
>
> Yes of course: Type "if /?" to see how it should work.
I wondered thru the batch area but did not try that.
>
> IF NOT EXIST X:\ZZZ\NUL MKDIR X:\ZZZ
OK that works.
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Mark LaPierre wrote:
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>
> Does FreeDOS provide support for USB ports?
The DFSee boot CD runs FreeDOS. It can access thumb drives and USB
connected HDDs.
Dies that prove anything where you are c
James Hahn wrote:
> Hello Ray,
>
> Thanks for sharing pictures of your setup. It's a real fascinating
> setup. Other than a duplicating machine, what function does it serve
> while connected to your network?
It is primarily a storage box. In it's normal mode it has o
large
as what you want to copy, boot - the racks are hot swappable, the OSs
are not - , run DFSee, select the partition(s) or drive to be copied,
and go to lunch.
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If there is a sub-directory present on a floppy, CHKDSK report seems
normal. If there is no sub-directory - whether or not there are files:
"Assertion failed: size, file bitfield.c, line 34
Abnormal program termination"
Is this to be expe
I got that message running:
4DOS ATTRIB /A:-A -H -R -S /D /S *.*
on a 14G FAT32 partition about 66% full. It was at the end of the
screen display. I assume the operation terminated early.
What does it imply?
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At 16:21 24/05/2010 +0200, you wrote:
>On 05/24/2010 12:04 PM, Ray wrote:
> > am having trouble with a new install of freedos printing to a parallel
> > printer - previously it work ok but after a new computer was installed
> > we have no access to printer - the mainboard i
At 15:01 24/05/2010 +0100, you wrote:
>On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Ray wrote:
> > am having trouble with a new install of freedos printing to a parallel
> > printer - previously it work ok but after a new computer was installed
> > we have no access to printer - the ma
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the database was transfered in toto from the old computer as we had
done previously with no effect on printing capability [previous
computer has onboard lpt port
is it that the addin 3rd party lpt card is not usable by freedos
ray
Is it possible to get DOS to use a print server such as this?
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> So far I have not found such a button, and Google is no help.
OK, OK, so there is a button. And it even works.
Thank you all
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>> I recently swapped my wife's CRT for a used 20", IBM ThinkVision. The
>> image is shifted up about an inch which puts a pull-down bar off-screen.
>> Win and eCS (OS/2) are OK.
&g
I recently swapped my wife's CRT for a used 20", IBM ThinkVision. The
image is shifted up about an inch which puts a pull-down bar off-screen.
Win and eCS (OS/2) are OK.
Ideas?
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>> 2) RTL 8139 PCI
I load a Realtek RTL8139 driver in OS/2. I have at least six 8139 cards
from a couple vendors. The driver not only works with those but has
worked with several later 8xxx chips on motherboards.
I expect it to work as well with DO
my desktops have any LVM. All my HDDs are front panel plug-in and LVM
makes it difficult to swap drives; they have to be mounted.
With that as a starting point can I put Linux on a logical(s)?
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Bernd Blaauw wrote:
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> How was the bootdisk created?
The included bat. See my previous post where I described the fix.
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> Incorrect DOS version
> Bad or missing Command Interpreter: command.com /P /E:256
> Enter .
The floppy had a 2003 Command.com. The bat went looking for a copy of
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The boot process identifies all the HDD partitions then:
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> Hi I saw that it was possible to run freedos from a usb.
I have two thumb drives that I cloned from a boot floppy with the HP
utility. On my laptop - which has no A: - they both work, but one boots
as A: and the other as C:. I am going to keep the A:.
so you can use both types of CD/DVD drives
> without having to decide which driver you want to install.
So where do I find it xgcdrom?
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Eric Auer wrote:
> Drivers like gcdrom alone only give low-level CD/DVD, no ISO9660.
The CD/DVD is SATA. Since I didn't find xgcdrom I tried gcdrom. Seems
to work. What benefit would I see with xgcdr
that page or in
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And this link gets me not 4DOS but an ad for McAfee.
http://4dos.z-bg.com/
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I just got a replacement laptop.
I have a 1.0 CD and a 1G, USB, thumb drive that brings up what looks
like the same menu as the CD. Both try to load XCDROM and report "No
CD-ROM to use". Of course the CD had to use the CD drive to get to that
point.
Any idea what is goin
program that can still keep up. I actually think
chasing numbers and letters around the screen with a mouse is not very
efficient. I also have a printed circuit layout program.
And I have to work real hard to crash DOS.
Ray
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apparently recently allowed the current
version to be ported but time and money to do that is scarce. So while
I would like to see a real browser under DOS, if it doesn't include the
current Flash it would be crippled,
Michael Reichenbach wrote:
> Do you know any DOS drivers for SATA controllers / harddisk?
I have a machine that is using UIDE.SYS to access a SATA CD/DVD. I
don't currently have a SATA HDD in a machine but I have a SATA HDD in a
USB box that I could pull and plug in to a desktop machi
Any more thoughts on this?
Ray
Ray Davison wrote:
> Eric Auer wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>>> I just noticed a MEM /c I ran on that HDD Feb 2008. Why do the
>>> available memory start out differently. There is small difference
>>> in total RAM size, but b
up.
UIDE seems to work. It loads 7104, all upper. And both drives read.
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Ray Davison wrote:
> Eric Auer wrote:
>
>> Try if updating LBACACHE helps:
>>
>> www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/lbacache/2008/
>>
> Lbacache.com 6 Apr 2008; no apparent change if still without TUNS.
Same lbcache, no TUNS, when I try to co
Is there a DOS UNRAR somewhere I can get at? Every link I try, even tho
it says DOS, takes me off into WinLand. This one looked hopeful, it
mentioned FreeDOS, but is dead.
http://www.bttr-software.de/misc/urar377d.zip.
Ray
Eric Auer wrote:
> Hi!
>
>> I just noticed a MEM /c I ran on that HDD Feb 2008. Why do the
>> available memory start out differently. There is small difference
>> in total RAM size, but by then doesn't DOS not care?
>
>>SYSTEM 17,344 (17K) 10,992 (11K) 6,352(6K)
>>
> Then lh doslfn should do fine.
That gets me:
DOSLFN 0.40e ( haft): enabled.
Last error: 43 -
Was that to be expected? I don't see any change in LFN access.
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Blair Campbell wrote:
> DOSLFN is the more-or-less official LFN driver for FreeDOS.
Got it. It is not clear to me how much of what is in the ZIP needs to
be in the run directory.
Can you suggest an execute line?
Is there a LFN utility that works? I just tried LFNDOS. It checked
drives, but did not see any existing LFN. I tried creating one, and it
truncated to 8.
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> I just noticed SHCD does not see the SATA optical. Is this to be expected?
There is a PATA optical that is OK.
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> SYSTEM 10992 - 6352
> HIMEM 2704 - 0
> COMMAND 3024 - 624
I just noticed a MEM /c I ran on that HDD Feb 2008. Why do the
available memory start out differently. There is small difference in
total RAM size, but by then doesn'
evious is ECS,
HDD is Hitachi 80G.
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did all this Nov 2007.
It has worked well since. I now moved the HDD to new hardware. If I
select boot 1 or 2, fdconfig.sys gets about to the end and cannot find
command.com. However, the floppy with the same fdconfig.sys boots OK.
Screen echo and files are below.
Make any sense?
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o help, including personal help in the form of
custom scripts. And since the CD boots FreeDOS he has some
understanding of that.
I think everyone who works with drives should have this. And it is
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from a single extended. I have never needed
more than one real primary. None of these things cost much and they put
you in control.
DRDOS has a boot selector that will select it or one version of W9X. I
am surprised if FREEDOS doesn't have such a thing.
Robert Riebisch wrote:
> Ray Davison wrote:
>
>> Boot screen says: DOSLFN 0.40c
>> Kernel is 20 Sept 07
>> Neither NC or VC 4.05 or DIR display LFNs.
>
> Don't know about NC, but only VC 4.99.08 supports LFN.
>
> You can also try
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Boot screen says: DOSLFN 0.40c
Kernel is 20 Sept 07
Neither NC or VC 4.05 or DIR display LFNs.
What am I missing?
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Ray Davison wrote:
> The file I had was: 3 July 06 35380
> File produced: 40290
> The new file is: 3 July 06 92376
> File produced: 40382
> Same complaints. Here is a sample.
> \KERNEL.SYS has an invalid size, the size should be about 4294901760,
> but the entry says it&#
The file I had was: 3 July 06 35380
File produced: 40290
The new file is: 3 July 06 92376
File produced: 40382
Same complaints. Here is a sample.
\KERNEL.SYS has an invalid size, the size should be about 4294901760,
but the entry says it's 45341
Norton Disk Doctor from W2K says C: is OK.
FreeDOS chkdsk c: produces a 40K file. All entries are: file has an
invalid size.
The only chkdsk bug I find is 1954.
The problem stated in 1954 does not appear here.
Ray
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JEMMEX doesn't see to run. Everything loaded low.
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Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop.
Now S
FreeDOS 1.0
CAD locks the system, but does not reboot. It does it every time. Once
I got a "illegal something...". The rest had no indication on screen.
Is this to be expected?
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also use the other setting, which is "all partitions on
> the first HDD first" :-)
But it is NOT putting all primaries first. It is putting the second
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It looks fine in Mozilla.
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And Boot Manager is inert, C is active.
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Now Search log even
tters, if they boot to their physical
position. And that is the challenge. Booting FreeDOS 1.0, the W2K-D
primary picks up the letter after any extended partitions. With DRDOS
7.01 Fat32, they hold their physical position.
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