Re: [Freedos-user] Logical Partitions

2024-12-20 Thread Ray Davison via Freedos-user
Ashley Pirrone via Freedos-user wrote: Hello, I gave up on my desire to install FreeDOS to a non C: drive. C: it is. I did not get why you want to boot DOS from other than C primary. If it has to do with booting other OS, I have not found that to be an issue. For a couple decades I have ha

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

2024-01-01 Thread Ray Davison via Freedos-user
Jim Hall via Freedos-user wrote: I'm thinking about doing a video that shows how to do real work on DOS. For me "Real work" included PC setup. I used System Commander until I replaced it with Acronis OS Selector, which I still use. I also still use: Acronis Disk Doctor Norton Commander Word

Re: [Freedos-user] Dual Boot winth Windows 98

2022-02-13 Thread Ray Davison
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.

Re: [Freedos-user] Dual Boot winth Windows 98

2022-02-13 Thread Ray Davison
[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. You just need a real boot mana

Re: [Freedos-user] BM cannot boot FD 1.2

2022-01-10 Thread Ray Davison
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).

Re: [Freedos-user] BM cannot boot FD 1.2

2022-01-09 Thread Ray Davison
Rugxulo wrote: The 1.2 kernel has been renamed and moved, I get "Can't load operating system. Press to reboot..." Presumably just rename the kernel to "KERNEL.SYS" first. But you may have to update the boot sector name, too (use SYS or maybe WDE). What about the KERNEL location in the t

[Freedos-user] BM cannot boot FD 1.2

2022-01-09 Thread Ray Davison
I am maintaining several machines that do serious work on FD. For several years they have all had FD 1.1. I just installed 1.2, basic, over 1.1 on one machine. FD seemed to install OK, and took over booting the partition as expected. FD 1.2 seemed to load OK. I then reactivated the boot ma

Re: [Freedos-user] num lock

2021-03-04 Thread Ray Davison
Eric Auer wrote: Did you try to google for "freedos numlock"? ... duckduckgo does not find that page. Better get a barge pole, because DuckDuckNoGo won't find jack **t... To join that little off-topic: Is there ANY search engine remaining which RESPECTS my search keywords? This is at th

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS software

2021-01-03 Thread Ray Davison
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. Ray __

Re: [Freedos-user] Any Gui?

2021-01-03 Thread Ray Davison
Joao Silva wrote: Hello. I have to agree that a GUI mnakes life a bit easy when envolving a tyask with a lot of files. I disagree. You want to copy, move or delete files or whole trees? A two panel, filemanager like Norton Commander and it's clones. Move - on the same HDD, and I believe

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS software

2021-01-03 Thread Ray Davison
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 Ray ___ Free

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS software

2020-12-30 Thread Ray Davison
Ray Davison wrote: I also have my first seven PCs.  They start at AT. 28Meg, double height HDD. ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS software

2020-12-30 Thread Ray Davison
I also have my first seven PCs. They start at AT. ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS software

2020-12-30 Thread Ray Davison
Karen Lewellen wrote: 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. Ray ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.s

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS software

2020-12-30 Thread Ray Davison
I have four classic cars to redesign. The most effort I could put into the SW is a dozen close ups of the spines, and putting it in a box. ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/f

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS software

2020-12-30 Thread Ray Davison
What about Win 3 stuff? Ray ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user

[Freedos-user] DOS software

2020-12-30 Thread Ray Davison
I will keep DOS running primarily for accounting and word-processing, because none of the "modern" apps have given me reason to change. However, I have about fifteen linear feet of software and third party books that I may have used but mostly acquired because I thought it might be useful some

Re: [Freedos-user] Package discussion

2020-12-18 Thread Ray Davison
Jerome Shidel wrote: To create a custom CD for each user who downloads FreeDOS is not practical. Where in all this discussion did anyone suggest "a custom CD for each user"? In my scheme the system would only have two ISOs: the basic, and a TBD "extras". The user would create his own custo

Re: [Freedos-user] Package discussion

2020-12-16 Thread Ray Davison
Jim Hall wrote: What do you think? I see two disks and an archive. My primary word processor and accounting programs are DOS. Yes I have "modern" versions for those functions, but I do not consider them to be improvements. It is extra work to chase stuff around a screen. So what you cal

Re: [Freedos-user] Would you use a native 32/64-bit FreeDOS/BIOS system?

2018-01-18 Thread Ray Davison
A small side trip about real work in real DOS. Since Win2K, my desktops have had a 2G, FAT16 primary at the front of the first HDD, carrying DOS and a boot manager, and two Win partitions, both logicals. Every other partition is a logical. Using that layout I am now running FreeDOS 1.1 and W

[Freedos-user] Some app functions don't work

2017-05-06 Thread Ray Davison
From: Ray Davison 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

[Freedos-user] Some app functions don't work

2017-03-04 Thread Ray Davison
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 years ago the archiv

Re: [Freedos-user] 1.1 new install, no boot

2014-09-17 Thread Ray Davison
Rugxulo wrote: > > In other words, what specifically are you trying to do? What files do > you need on there? What machines / environments are you trying to use? I use a floppy to boot a machine for maintenance and occasionally to run SYS from. All I need FreeDOS to put on there is KERNEL and C

Re: [Freedos-user] 1.1 new install, no boot

2014-09-04 Thread Ray Davison
Ray Davison wrote: > > Install to HDD; > Reboot > After "boot from CD", blinking cursor at left margin I chose selection 1, copy DOS to MBR - or some such. Ray -- Slashdot TV. Video for Nerd

[Freedos-user] 1.1 new install, no boot

2014-09-03 Thread Ray Davison
Create boot floppy; Bad command or file name - "I:\FreeDOS\3rdParty\extract" FAT12 System transferred Floppy no-boot. Install to HDD; Reboot After "boot from CD", blinking cursor at left margin Ideas? TY Ray -- Slashdo

Re: [Freedos-user] (no subject)

2014-05-15 Thread Ray Davison
dmccunney wrote: >> Oh by the way if you want to install XP on FAT32, it will work without being >> activated. > > XP on FAT32? Why the shudder? I have never run WXP on anything but FAT32. Currently it is on four machines in the office plus whatever is in the shop. It is a matter of cross

Re: [Freedos-user] Load file sys driver in dconfig.sys?

2014-05-04 Thread Ray Davison
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

[Freedos-user] Load file sys driver in dconfig.sys?

2014-05-03 Thread Ray Davison
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 Ray ---

Re: [Freedos-user] if not exist?

2013-02-14 Thread Ray Davison
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. TY Ray -- Free Next-Gen Firewal

[Freedos-user] if not exist?

2013-02-14 Thread Ray Davison
Is there something like this in FD? IF NOT EXIST X:\ZZZ MD X:\ZZZ Everything in front of the MD is ignored, and there is an error if X:\ZZZ does exist. TY Ray -- Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer Buy your Sophos ne

Re: [Freedos-user] Change dos "gray-on-black" default colour settings

2013-02-13 Thread Ray Davison
sakura kinomoto wrote: > > Can anybody write customisable software, for "selecting colors " for > dos? for example, yellow-on-blue or white-on-black, or (excellent) > with changeable colour scheme? PRISM from 1990. Create color profiles. Call a different profile for each app. As I recall it co

[Freedos-user] USB

2013-02-09 Thread Ray Davison
FreeDOS 1.1 I an loading usbuhci and usbdrive with LH. They both load low. They create eight drive letters, none of which show the plugged in device. The current test device is a 1G thumb drive. Do the drivers have a max size? I am using the included drivers. I have the drivers from the Joh

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.1 install

2013-02-09 Thread Ray Davison
A little background. My first PC ran DOS 3.3 on a 28M HDD that I broke into three partitions, all primaries. Since the extended came out every machine I have had has had a single primary - 2G or less, Fat 16 - with one or more installs of DOS and maybe Win9X. The rest of the drive, and any o

Re: [Freedos-user] hard drive question?

2012-11-13 Thread Ray Davison
Single Stage to Orbit wrote: > On Sun, 2012-11-11 at 16:36 +0100, Bernd Blaauw wrote: >> I remember the old days of having 4 (primary? extended? logical?) >> FAT16 partitions of 2GB each, allowing up to 8GB total. > > I remember using 32MB partitions :-) > My first HDD was 28M, and I created three

Re: [Freedos-user] hard drive question?

2012-11-13 Thread Ray Davison
Karen Lewellen wrote: > Hi folks, > Asking for the person still doing that Dr dos 703 thing. > What is the largest drive capacitor for the current edition of freedos? There has been much discussion regarding which DOS might do what on which machine. Actually determining which will actually work

Re: [Freedos-user] USB Support

2012-05-02 Thread Ray Davison
Mark LaPierre wrote: > Hey Y'all, > > 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 concerned? Ray -

Re: [Freedos-user] dos backups in the 21st century?

2011-08-25 Thread Ray Davison
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 one boot/app drive, three st

Re: [Freedos-user] dos backups in the 21st century?

2011-08-19 Thread Ray Davison
Karen Lewellen wrote: > A question mainly for those who use dos alone and purely on your > machines. I am asking how you do large backup work yourself now? say > 3 gig or so? I have a couple suggestions for your consideration. First, anyone who is doing anything serious with a PC needs this: htt

[Freedos-user] if not exist MD XXX

2011-05-12 Thread Ray Davison
Is there such a batch command? Ray -- Achieve unprecedented app performance and reliability What every C/C++ and Fortran developer should know. Learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help b

[Freedos-user] CHKDSK on floppy

2011-05-12 Thread Ray Davison
This is CHKDSK beta 0.9.1 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 expected? Ray -

[Freedos-user] 4DOS internal stack overflow

2010-10-20 Thread Ray Davison
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? Ray -- N

[Freedos-user] Print server

2010-03-01 Thread Ray Davison
Is it possible to get DOS to use a print server such as this? http://tinyurl.com/ykf3raz TY Ray -- Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on flatscreen

2010-01-22 Thread Ray Davison
Ray Davison wrote: > > 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 Ray -- Throughout its 18-year history, RSA Conference consis

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on flatscreen

2010-01-21 Thread Ray Davison
Felix Miata wrote: > On 2010/01/18 15:00 (GMT-0800) Ray Davison composed: > >> 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

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS on flatscreen

2010-01-18 Thread Ray Davison
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? Ray -- Throughout its 18-year history,

Re: [Freedos-user] Network adapter.

2009-12-16 Thread Ray Davison
Alain Mouette wrote: > The RTL8139D is very nice. > > the only problem is that there has been some fakes around :( > > Alain > > Buzzer escreveu: >> Could anyone advice me best network adapter which are able to work >> under FreeDOS? >> >> 1) Intel 82559 PCI >> 2) RTL 8139 PCI I load a Realtek RTL

Re: [Freedos-user] dualboot systems

2009-12-03 Thread Ray Davison
Felix Miata wrote: > > As long as some type of boot manager is employed to choose among installed > operating systems, both DOS and Linux are totally competent to coexist on one > computer system. Hi Felix: The only time I ever got Linux to install on a drive that already had an OS, it only ins

[Freedos-user] OSO001.MSG

2009-09-10 Thread Ray Davison
I just defraged C:, and now executing attrib - with or without parameters - yields; SYS0318: Message file OSO001.MSG cannot be found for message . Why? Ray -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal

Re: [Freedos-user] Fwd: Announcement: New DOS USB Drivers

2009-07-03 Thread Ray Davison
Alain Mouette wrote: > Tom Ehlert escreveu: >> unlikely. while O/UHCI is certainly fast enough for >> keyboards/mice/printers(?), noone want to have different USB ports in >> he same computer > > Ok > >> plug your USB stick/external disk/DVD-ROM into an OHCI/UHCI port, >> and you will be VERY dis

Re: [Freedos-user] New kernel install floppy won't boot

2009-06-13 Thread Ray Davison
Bernd Blaauw wrote: >> > How was the bootdisk created? The included bat. See my previous post where I described the fix. Ray -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licen

Re: [Freedos-user] New kernel install floppy won't boot

2009-06-13 Thread Ray Davison
Ray Davison wrote: > The boot process identifies all the HDD partitions then: > 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 command.com on the HDD and that is w

[Freedos-user] New kernel install floppy won't boot

2009-06-13 Thread Ray Davison
The boot process identifies all the HDD partitions then: Incorrect DOS version Bad or missing Command Interpreter: command.com /P /E:256 Enter . Suggestions? Ray -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial

[Freedos-user] IHPFS

2009-06-06 Thread Ray Davison
IHPFS.EXE seems to work. It has a provision for selecting drive letter. However, the HPFS partition is located amongst FAT 16&32 partitions whose drive letters are assigned during config.sys load. Can I load it in config.sys or somehow reserve/assign the drive letter that represents the pla

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos on usb

2009-03-10 Thread Ray Davison
ramin wrote: > 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:. Ray

Re: [Freedos-user] Cannot find CD

2009-03-03 Thread Ray Davison
Eric Auer wrote: > Hi! > >>> Drivers like gcdrom alone only give low-level CD/DVD, no ISO9660. So apparently the ISO9660 file system is becoming common and older drivers won't work, true? > > Xgcdrom is xcdrom (ATAPI) and gcdrom (S-ATA) combined into > one driver, so you can use both types of C

Re: [Freedos-user] Cannot find CD

2009-03-03 Thread Ray Davison
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 xgcdrom? Ray -- Open

Re: [Freedos-user] Cannot find CD

2009-03-03 Thread Ray Davison
Eric Auer wrote: > Suitable drivers: xcdrom for ATAPI, gcdrom or uide > or xgcdrom for S-ATA. > > Check http://rugxulo.googlepages.com/ for a mirror of XGCDROM > and other useful updated free DOS software :-). The CD/DVD drive is SATA. I do not find any reference to xqcdrom on that page or in

[Freedos-user] Cannot find CD

2009-03-01 Thread Ray Davison
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 going on? Ray -

Re: [Freedos-user] Purpose of dos...

2009-01-18 Thread Ray Davison
Is no one else running DOS on late model machines to do actual work. My primary machines now are Pentium D. With a mix of PATA and SATA. I have rather recent suites from Corel and M$. But my word processor of choice is still WP 6.2a DOS. My accounts payable program was written in 1995. On

Re: [Freedos-user] Poll and ideas compressed filesystem

2009-01-17 Thread Ray Davison
Travis Siegel wrote: > there's very little that I can't access due to lack of flash support. Keep looking. It is getting to be more all the time. And it is content, not just adds. And some sites that worked fine with version 5 apparently had nothing better to do and "upgraded" to later versi

Re: [Freedos-user] Poll and ideas compressed filesystem

2009-01-17 Thread Ray Davison
Eric Auer wrote: >> Ages ago there where some discussions about DOSzilla (Mozilla Firefox >> for DOS) but the project was never released and is dead. >> Firefox for DOS would be a killer application, pretty cool. > > I remember the suggestion coming in from time to time but I also > remember the i

Re: [Freedos-user] SATA drivers?

2008-12-21 Thread Ray Davison
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 machine. Ray

Re: [Freedos-user] Can't find command.com

2008-12-12 Thread Ray Davison
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

Re: [Freedos-user] SATA optical

2008-12-12 Thread Ray Davison
Eric Auer wrote: > Hi! > >> I just noticed SHCD does not see the SATA optical. >> Is this to be expected? > > I assume you try using SHSUCDX for SATA CD or DVD > drives? No problem for SHSUCDX (which creates a > drive letter from the raw data) but your low level > driver (to access raw data) mus

Re: [Freedos-user] Can't find command.com

2008-12-12 Thread Ray Davison
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

[Freedos-user] DOS UnRAR?

2008-12-11 Thread Ray Davison
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 -

Re: [Freedos-user] Can't find command.com

2008-12-11 Thread Ray Davison
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) >>

Re: [Freedos-user] LFN

2008-12-11 Thread Ray Davison
Blair Campbell wrote: > extract doslfn.com (or exe) and the .cp? I can't remember the > extention but there's a few codepage tables afair that the extension > begins with .cp How about cp*.tbl? > Those need to go in the bin directory. I assume you mean C:\FDOS\BIN > > Then lh doslfn should do

Re: [Freedos-user] LFN

2008-12-10 Thread Ray Davison
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? Ray -

[Freedos-user] LFN

2008-12-10 Thread Ray Davison
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. Ray -- SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 i

Re: [Freedos-user] SATA optical

2008-12-10 Thread Ray Davison
Ray Davison wrote: > I just noticed SHCD does not see the SATA optical. Is this to be expected? There is a PATA optical that is OK. Ray -- SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nev

[Freedos-user] SATA optical

2008-12-10 Thread Ray Davison
I just noticed SHCD does not see the SATA optical. Is this to be expected? Ray -- SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at M

Re: [Freedos-user] Can't find command.com

2008-12-10 Thread Ray Davison
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. With TUNS Jemm386: exception 06 ... CS:EIP=33FA:05C6 esc Continues to boot, Lbacache now has 40

Re: [Freedos-user] Can't find command.com

2008-12-10 Thread Ray Davison
Ray Davison wrote: > 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'

Re: [Freedos-user] Can't find command.com

2008-12-10 Thread Ray Davison
bwspos wrote: > Had this the other day - removing TUNS from LBACACHE should fix it > and,no, I don't know why. I removed "TUNS". It now boots OK. And mem /c says the following is in conventional - upper, everything else has zero conventional. I am left with 608,554 (594K). SYSTEM 10992 - 6

[Freedos-user] Can't find command.com

2008-12-09 Thread Ray Davison
I did a HDD installation excepting the suggestions of the install routine. That seems to work. Then I made a boot floppy from the HDD installation. I used the same directory structure, changed the drive letters, and deleted some stuff from autoexec.bat. Based on directory dates it appears I

Re: [Freedos-user] FDISK & Format

2008-12-08 Thread Ray Davison
J wrote: > Any data recovery programs recommended or that I should avoid (i.e. > might make the situation worse)? The first place I would post such a question is here: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DFSee can do some amazing things with partition tables and contents. And the author is there to help, includin

Re: [Freedos-user] dual boot part 5.

2008-11-03 Thread Ray Davison
If you want to boot multiple OSs you should get real boot manager. For years I ran System Commander. A couple years ago that started having problems with OS/2 on some mother boards. Since then I have been using Acronis OS Selector. It will run as many versions of DOS and W9X on a single C p

Re: [Freedos-user] LFN

2008-02-15 Thread Ray Davison
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 > <http://www

[Freedos-user] LFN

2008-02-14 Thread Ray Davison
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? Ray - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http:

Re: [Freedos-user] Chkdsk

2007-09-11 Thread Ray Davison
Ray Davison wrote: chkdsk beta 0.9.1 works on A, C and D - the only FAT16 on this machine. Ray - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go

Re: [Freedos-user] Chkdsk

2007-09-11 Thread Ray Davison
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&#

Re: [Freedos-user] Chkdsk

2007-09-11 Thread Ray Davison
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 Ray ---

[Freedos-user] Chkdsk

2007-09-11 Thread Ray Davison
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 - This

Re: [Freedos-user] CAD locks system

2007-09-05 Thread Ray Davison
Eric Auer wrote: > > Yes, known bug of that version of emm386. You either > have to use the altboot option of emm386 or update it > to jemm386 from japheth.de which you should probably > do anyways JEMM386 says it needs XMM. I did nothing but sub JEMM386 for EMM386. Seems Ok; slightly more fre

[Freedos-user] CAD locks system

2007-09-05 Thread Ray Davison
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? TY Ray - This SF.net email is sponsored by:

Re: [Freedos-user] Partition layout

2007-08-31 Thread Ray Davison
Eric Auer wrote: > > Oops sorry I mean sys.txt, not config.txt ... OK. There is also SYS.EN. The only SYS I know about is SYS.COM. I have been trying; C:\FDOS\BIN\sys.com dlasort=X Is this correct, and if so where do I put it? So far all I have gotten is a SYS help screen. > >>Do you unders

Re: [Freedos-user] I've created a glossy version of Blinky

2007-08-31 Thread Ray Davison
Aitor Santamaría wrote: >> >>It seems you're using some some oldish image-reader software... > > MS - Internet Explorer... > It looks fine in Mozilla. Ray - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping thr

Re: [Freedos-user] Partition layout

2007-08-31 Thread Ray Davison
chris evans wrote: > Better to label your drive volumes to something other than obscure or > drive letters, like DATA, or your name. that way when you in a fdisk > program or other OS you can see what is what and not cause an > accident. Curious, I thought that the DOS will only point C: to the >

Re: [Freedos-user] Partition layout

2007-08-31 Thread Ray Davison
Eric Auer wrote: > Hi, maybe it is useful to try SYS CONFIG to switch > the DLASORT option to 0 or 1. Please read the docs, > to be more exact, the config.txt file :-) Probably > still does not behave as DR DOS, but I do remember > that DLASORT is there because some people were not > happy with the

[Freedos-user] Partition layout

2007-08-30 Thread Ray Davison
I have always had a single primary C for DOS and W9X, and everything else extended. W2K then puts it's boot files on C. That can cause problems trying to restore the W2K partition from backup. So I created the drive below. I am sure it will wrap. Sorry. The labels include the drive letters,

Re: [Freedos-user] 1.0 CD install hang

2007-08-23 Thread Ray Davison
Eric Auer wrote: > > This happens because you selected a package which tries to > use the internet to download further files. TY. If install is unable to create an Internet connection, why does it try to use one? The machine was physically connected to the router at the time. The install see

Re: [Freedos-user] 1.0 CD install hang

2007-08-22 Thread Ray Davison
Ray Davison wrote: > FreeDOS 1.0 CD > Also, the make boot floppy item, didn't. It just took a readable disk and made it unreadable. The disk was in A:, and it complained that it couldn't read old info off B: Ray --

[Freedos-user] 1.0 CD install hang

2007-08-22 Thread Ray Davison
FreeDOS 1.0 CD Page says; Wattcp.cfg Setup Menu It hangs at: Configuring through DHCP... I would skip this section if I knew how. Ideas? Ray - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log file

[Freedos-user] OS selectors

2007-08-19 Thread Ray Davison
Is anyone current on what is available for operating system selection? For years I used VCom System Commander, up to SC 2000. When that had trouble with OS/2 on some hardware I went to Acronis OS selector V5. I now have 8, 9 and 10. They do not seem to understand booting a partition that is

[Freedos-user] SYS.COM

2007-08-19 Thread Ray Davison
I have 1.0 CD and boot floppy. I cannot find a SYS.COM. I found the DOCs for it on the CD. Where is the file? TY Ray - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Sto

Re: [Freedos-user] Install fail

2007-06-28 Thread Ray Davison
Eric Auer wrote: > Then it tried to download further updates but failed to > communicate with your ADSL router or similar device. Could it have reasonably been expected to succeed? If so, how to make it work. > >>How can I determine what did not get installed because of this? > > I think the w

[Freedos-user] Install fail

2007-06-27 Thread Ray Davison
I just downloaded and burned FDFULLCD.ISO. I installed it on a rather old machine: 1G P4. I have trouble getting any DOS to boot on some late model machines. Bootable CD install stops at "Configuring through DHCP". Someone else complained about this last November. I don't find a response. H

[Freedos-user] Install fail

2007-06-27 Thread Ray Davison
I just downloaded and burned FDFULLCD.ISO. I installed it on a rather old machine: 1G P4. I have trouble getting any DOS to boot on some late model machines. Bootable CD install stops at "Configuring through DHCP". Someone else complained about this last November. I don't find a response. H

[Freedos-user] UNRAR

2007-04-19 Thread Ray Davison
My questions are general but were prompted by _d32.rar. Why the underline at the front on the name? Can you point me to an unrar utility that will work with DOS or OS\2. I have tried several and gotten nowhere. I can see the directory but cannot read or extract any of it. TY Ray ---

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