Re: [Freedos-user] DOS operating systems

2005-11-01 Thread Gerry Hickman
Hi Bernd, guess why we call ATAPICDD.SYS alpha.. UDMA drivers seem to stabilize the ATAPICDD driver (or IDE bus) a bit. I didn't mean to imply we expect it to work perfectly at alpha stage. I was just saying there are some definite problems. It's not just me, I think the FreeDOS FDConfig.

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS operating systems

2005-11-01 Thread Blair Campbell
> My first problem was in the installation process. When I tried to see > the content of one package, right now I don't remember well the name, > it happened an error and a message error was printed on the screen in > text mode. I think I've had a report of this. This is most likely the graphic

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS operating systems

2005-11-01 Thread Blair Campbell
can show > > you the exactly error message). This problem always was happening when > > FreeDOS could not read a unit disk. I think is a problem of > > translation in the command.com. > > This is new. Check if replacing command.com with the devel one from > fdos.org/kernel works. If it doesn't wo

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS operating systems

2005-11-01 Thread Chema
Hi Blair, My first problem was in the installation process. When I tried to see the content of one package, right now I don't remember well the name, it happened an error and a message error was printed on the screen in text mode. After installation process (one of the applications to install ga

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS operating systems

2005-11-01 Thread Blair Campbell
> they use boot disks. FreeDOS is easy in that sense. But I tried to > install the FreeDOS 0.9 Beta Enhaced Disk and it gave me some > problems. Also the Atapi cd-rom driver included (the alpha version) is > very slow to load! Do you recommend me to install better the FreeDOS > 0.9 Lite Version or

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS operating systems

2005-11-01 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Gerry Hickman schreef: There are some definite problems with the CD driver, you may want to try VIDE-CDD.SYS guess why we call ATAPICDD.SYS alpha.. In fact I don't know the state of any revision of it (binary is 0.2.10 I think) and if it's simply a case of "NASM ATAPICDD.NSM" or not for any ne

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS operating systems

2005-11-01 Thread Gerry Hickman
Hi Chema, I haven't could to take a look at 32 bits and preemptive multitask DOS versions, because they are very expensive: > Another subject, what about DOS GUI? Seal is dead, also BreadBox > Ensemble GEOS, so nowadays there isn't any project to develop a modern > GUI for DOS. Windows 3.xx is

[Freedos-user] DOS operating systems

2005-11-01 Thread Chema
Thank you very much for your quick answers and your help. I'm a really fan of DOS systems. For me is the best system (at least the last system that I know what really is doing on the startup and then I can configure it). From Windows 95 onwards all is a black box... I have the following DOS syste