[Freedos-user] How to install multiple instances..?

2011-08-02 Thread Virii
Hi. Could someone tell me if it's possible to have multiple instances of (Free)DOS installed to the same partition? After editing the fdconfig.sys, and autoexec.bat, I was unable to boot properly with the files renamed. The kernel seems to be the only non issue, but I hadn't tested it a whole lo

Re: [Freedos-user] Can't Install; FreeDOS 1.1 test release #2

2011-07-19 Thread Virii
> What exactly goes wrong when you do what? > At which step? Which error messages do you > get, or do things hang? Crash? What sorts > of everything did you try, what happened? It hangs at the language selection screen. The very bottom selection of the main menu looks for a non-existent FDBOOTC

[Freedos-user] Can't Install; FreeDOS 1.1 test release #2

2011-07-19 Thread Virii
Hi. Has anyone had any luck installing this latest test release? http://sourceforge.net/news/?group_id=5109&id=302138 I've tried everything from burning it to a disc, to mounting the boot floppy/iso through Grub4Dos, and even rebuilding the iso. I read the readme.txt for the release, but follo

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS driver issues

2011-07-19 Thread Virii
>> Well in Linux, I'm already using 2 sound outputs. The card, and the onboard >> audio AC97. In Linux I just switch to the AC97 when I want to use the >> headphones. What about DOS though? Can it handle having two >> sound cards, plus onboard audio? > I don't think it would know the difference!!

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS driver issues

2011-07-17 Thread Virii
> So far the pros... The cons are that I have to connect the output > of one card to the input of the next or use a switch to select from > which card I want to go to the amplifier. Another thing is that I > have way too many volume control / mixer channels now :-D How so? One card is the previou

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS driver issues

2011-07-16 Thread Virii
> FreeDOS 1.1 is from 2006, when those drivers didn't even exist yet. Ah... I see. Okay then. I've tried about everything I could think of for the USB flash drivers. I haven't tested controllers, or anything like that though. After reading the lengthy readme, I tried about every param that 'USBD

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS driver issues

2011-07-16 Thread Virii
> You are right that installing "all" includes some unstable > things such as old USB or network drivers which might crash > or hang during install. To avoid that, un-select packages > or simply install "base" freedos before "full" freedos. Even after trying to install over the base release, I en

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS driver issues

2011-07-16 Thread Virii
Hi. I was wondering if someone could answer a few questions I have about FreeDOS. First of all, I'd like to get some more basic problems out of the way. After downloading the 1.0 'full' cd iso, and burning it to a disc, I was unable to boot into 'live' mode. I know now this is due to my PC only