Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS with QEMU

This is a keeper. Thanks JIm On Tue, Oct 1, 2024 at 10:22 AM Jim Hall via Freedos-user < freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > Someone emailed me to ask how I install FreeDOS using QEMU. They also > asked about the warning that QEMU emits when you use "img" file format, so > my reply menti

[Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS with QEMU

Someone emailed me to ask how I install FreeDOS using QEMU. They also asked about the warning that QEMU emits when you use "img" file format, so my reply mentions that. I wanted to share a copy of my reply in case anyone else here uses QEMU: >> This is a very timely question, because I'm about to

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing freeDOS on an old Mac Mini (Intel)

Bluetooth or usb? On Sat, Aug 24, 2024, at 12:14 PM, Paul Ozarowski via Freedos-user wrote: > Good day - > I am a freeDOS newbie attempting to install on an old (2011) Intel Mac Mini. > I can boot the USB but discovered that I have no keyboard or mouse support at > that point. Any ideas why thi

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing freeDOS on an old Mac Mini (Intel)

I'd guess that Apple Bootcamp has a minimal BIOS (if any) and doesn't include a USB keyboard/mouse to BIOS keyboard/mouse translation method. You could try Bret's USB DOS drivers (https://bretjohnson.us/) or crazii's USBDOS drivers (https://github.com/crazii/USBDDOS). You'll likely need to do that

[Freedos-user] Installing freeDOS on an old Mac Mini (Intel)

Good day - I am a freeDOS newbie attempting to install on an old (2011) Intel Mac Mini. I can boot the USB but discovered that I have no keyboard or mouse support at that point. Any ideas why this might be? Thank you - Paul Ozarowski ___ Freedos-user mail

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS on a Lenovo idea pad 110S

By default, any flavor of DOS I have used will not see any kind of EMMC storage. You may have a setting in your BIOS to treat them as traditional IDE disks, which may work, but otherwise there's sadly a strong chance that Free/MS/Whatever DOS simply cannot see the device without some kind of spe

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS on a Lenovo idea pad 110S

You can try this… Boot the install media (CD, USB or Floppy). Quit the install. Simply run FDISK without any options or parameters. It should default to the internal hard drive when booted from CD or Floppy. If you booted from USB, Drive C (aka drive 1) will be the USB Stick and the internal dr

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS on a Lenovo idea pad 110S

On Sun, 23 Jun 2024 19:15:15 +0200, Joey V via Freedos-user wrote: > Does anyone have any ideas? Do the partitioning in Linux. (And if D: is a 2nd partition, which seems likely, as multiple hard drives are rare in laptops, then it makes sense that it did not work, whatever it was you thought you

[Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS on a Lenovo idea pad 110S

Hello! I’ve been trying to install FreeDOS on my Lenovo ideapad 110s. I thought it might be a fun system to install it on because, while it can run Linux, it really can’t do a lot with it. Plus I’ve recently upgraded to another laptop for Linux. But the issue I’m having is the setup program se

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS on a USB Key

HI thanks for this great list! I was actually tinkering with 512 MB USB Sticks because I thought that there might be a difference when it comes to use TWO USB-Sticks at the same time. (like C: and D: ) I don’t know why this strategy SOMETIMES works - and sometimes it doesn’t. Maybe it has got

[Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS on a USB Key

There are advantages to installing FreeDOS natively - it is faster. On the other hand, I don't think there are many advantages to giving FreeDOS gigabytes of space. DOS programs just don't need it. So, I installed FreeDOS on an 8GB USB pendrive. (I don't think that even 2GB is really needed.)

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing Freedos on a Opendos system

On Mon, May 16, 2022 at 08:31:33AM +, Rober To via Freedos-user wrote: > Hi everybody: > I would like to know if it is possible to install Freedos on a Opendos > system. I want to have both systems and choose one or the other. I believe it should be feasible using GRUB (but not tried to inst

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing Freedos on a Opendos system

Of course it is, we just had an entire discussion about this very thing a week or two ago. Simply create multiple primary dos partitions, install your dos of choice on each one, then just activate (either manually or via program) the partition you wish to boot each time you startup. On 5/16

[Freedos-user] Installing Freedos on a Opendos system

Hi everybody: I would like to know if it is possible to install Freedos on a Opendos system. I want to have both systems and choose one or the other. Bye! ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lis

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing freedos to virtualbox them copying dice contents to an actual computer

Seeing as how you've referred to "chapters", it sounds like you're making contributions to a book or dissertation or script or some sort of larger document. I'd be wary of using a text editor instead of a word processor -- they are two very different things. A text editor is really designed fo

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing freedos to virtualbox them copying dice contents to an actual computer

If you need IDE drives, I have stacks of them, (one of the things I was able to rescue during our recent forced move). They're all different sizes, but I'd be willing to send you a box of them for the cost of shipping if you want them, since I no longer have any machines that can use them, (tho

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing freedos to virtualbox them copying dice contents to an actual computer

True On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 11:51 AM John Vella wrote: > I am using edit at the moment,so it might be safer to stick with that. By > safer, I mean not installing windows, which also contains too many > distractions! > > On Thu, 31 Mar 2022, 11:43 Joao Silva, wrote: > >> If you go to WIndows 3.

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing freedos to virtualbox them copying dice contents to an actual computer

It's a 486 dx 33, and I will have a look at that link when I get home, thanks! I'm not sure if I still have it, but I used to have an ide hard drive caddy buried somewhere. I might see if I can dig that out, as I have a few ide drives lying around. On Thu, 31 Mar 2022, 12:35 Björn Morell, wrote:

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing freedos to virtualbox them copying dice contents to an actual computer

Hi John Fun with someone using a real machine, I am using an IBM 100DX4 running, Freedos, DrDos and DSL (Damn Small Linux) all on three compact flash drives. I would try File Wizard and its internal editor, https://dos.retro.software/downloads/download/290-file-managers/1467-file-wizard-1-35

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing freedos to virtualbox them copying dice contents to an actual computer

I am using edit at the moment,so it might be safer to stick with that. By safer, I mean not installing windows, which also contains too many distractions! On Thu, 31 Mar 2022, 11:43 Joao Silva, wrote: > If you go to WIndows 3.1 you have write. > > If you want to stick to dos get edit.com from DO

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing freedos to virtualbox them copying dice contents to an actual computer

If you go to WIndows 3.1 you have write. If you want to stick to dos get edit.com from DOS, i'm using it and works just fine. On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 11:37 AM John Vella wrote: > Ooh, that's good to know. I'll have to check how many lines per chapter. > > I'm also tempted to dig out another old

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing freedos to virtualbox them copying dice contents to an actual computer

Ooh, that's good to know. I'll have to check how many lines per chapter. I'm also tempted to dig out another old drive, install windows 3.11 and try Microsoft Office 4.3 as I've never used that before. On Thu, 31 Mar 2022, 11:33 Joao Silva, wrote: > Hi! > > You can use FreeDOS edit, but don't u

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing freedos to virtualbox them copying dice contents to an actual computer

Hi! You can use FreeDOS edit, but don't use for big files... can't handle 2968 lines On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 12:59 PM John Vella wrote: > I'll be honest and say I'm starting to second guess myself here... Reading > a totally unrelated email at work this morning, I wondered why I'm even > bother

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing freedos to virtualbox them copying dice contents to an actual computer

My fav is the internal editor in File Wizard :) Den 2022-03-30 kl. 18:35, skrev Louis Santillan: FreeDOS Edit, SETEdit, vi, pico.  All great basic DoS text editors. On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 4:59 AM John Vella wrote: I'll be honest and say I'm starting to second guess myself here... Rea

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing freedos to virtualbox them copying dice contents to an actual computer

FreeDOS Edit, SETEdit, vi, pico. All great basic DoS text editors. On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 4:59 AM John Vella wrote: > I'll be honest and say I'm starting to second guess myself here... Reading > a totally unrelated email at work this morning, I wondered why I'm even > bothering with wordperfec

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing freedos to virtualbox them copying dice contents to an actual computer

On Wed, 30 Mar 2022 at 13:59, John Vella wrote: > > I'll be honest and say I'm starting to second guess myself here... Reading a > totally unrelated email at work this morning, I wondered why I'm even > bothering with wordperfect. I only need a basic text editor. I'm not > interested in spell c

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing freedos to virtualbox them copying dice contents to an actual computer

I'll be honest and say I'm starting to second guess myself here... Reading a totally unrelated email at work this morning, I wondered why I'm even bothering with wordperfect. I only need a basic text editor. I'm not interested in spell check, as I'll do that on the editing machine, so bringing it d

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing freedos to virtualbox them copying dice contents to an actual computer

Hi John, > So, I've got the 486 computer working and am ready to install freedos > and wordperfect. What do *you* really need from FreeDOS to run WP? Probably just the BASE packages. Or maybe the kernel + FreeCOM only. You may also want to look at SvarDOS' floppy images: http://www.svardos.org/?

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing freedos to virtualbox them copying dice contents to an actual computer

The host machine will be more than capable, as I have installed virtual freedos on this in the past. It's a 9th gen core i7 with 32gb, (I nearly typed 32mb!) off ram but now I've had a chance to think about it I'll probably just do the floppy install, purely because disk swapping is fun! I'll end

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing freedos to virtualbox them copying dice contents to an actual computer

On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 2:40 PM John Vella wrote: > So, I've got the 486 computer working and am ready to install freedos and > wordperfect. > > I'm thinking there are a couple of advantages to installing onto a virtualbox > machine, then formatting the physical hard drive and copying the conte

[Freedos-user] Installing freedos to virtualbox them copying dice contents to an actual computer

Hi, So, I've got the 486 computer working and am ready to install freedos and wordperfect. I'm thinking there are a couple of advantages to installing onto a virtualbox machine, then formatting the physical hard drive and copying the contents over. It would be a lot quicker to install and I'd ha

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS 1.3.

>> If that does not work or if you prefer, you can use FDISK and SYS to >> update the boot code. > > Are instructions available? Only as far as the individual programs help. > > The advanced installation process of FreeDOS might also provide a > resolution. While it should get FreeDOS boot

[Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS 1.3.

From: Jerome Shidel - 2022-02-21 00:14:37 > It installs to the First drive whose partition is compatible to DOS > and enumerated by the kernel as drive C:. > > Unless, you run it in advanced mode. Then other hard disks could be > targeted for install. Thanks Jerome. Will try to remember for f

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS 1.3.

> On Feb 20, 2022, at 6:09 PM, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > > Just installed the plain FreeDOS 1.3 running the .iso installer image > against Qemu in Linux Debian bullseye. > > Installation was to a drive brought from another machine and > temporarily connected to the Linux system. The drive

[Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS 1.3.

Just installed the plain FreeDOS 1.3 running the .iso installer image against Qemu in Linux Debian bullseye. Installation was to a drive brought from another machine and temporarily connected to the Linux system. The drive was already formatted with four primary parts. The installer didn't ask

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS alongside MS-DOS on old system

> On Sat, Sep 14, 2019 at 09:35:10PM -0500, Jon Brase wrote: > > > Hello everyone, > > > > I have an old 1995-vintage pentium system running a triple-boot of Debian, > > MS-DOS 6.22, and Windows 95. I would like to install FreeDOS along side > > MS-DOS On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 6:47 AM ZB wrote: >

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS alongside MS-DOS on old system

On Sat, Sep 14, 2019 at 09:35:10PM -0500, Jon Brase wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I have an old 1995-vintage pentium system running a triple-boot of Debian, > MS-DOS 6.22, and Windows 95. I would like to install FreeDOS along side MS-DOS You can create 2 separate DOS partitions - and use GRUB to

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS alongside MS-DOS on old system

Hi Jon, > ... "help xcdrom32" takes me to a help page for xcdrom, which > says its deprecated and UIDE.SYS should be used instead. There's > a help page for UIDE.SYS, but I can't actually find UIDE.SYS > itself anywhere. At the moment, there are UHDD and UDVD, with UHDD integrating CD/DVD featu

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS alongside MS-DOS on old system

On 18/09/2019 12:15, Jon Brase wrote: Under FreeDOS itself, I'm having a bit of trouble getting my CD drive set up. Specifically, having just installed components through FDNPKG, I'm having to write up my own FDCONFIG.SYS / FDAUTO.BAT, and I'm having trouble figuring out which components are curr

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS alongside MS-DOS on old system

On Tue, 17 Sep 2019 09:48:04 +0200 Mateusz Viste wrote: > On 17/09/2019 01:00, Jon Brase wrote: > > My question isn't actually what packages are in base. My question is, given > > the presence of an existing MS-DOS install, what is the minimal set of > > packages that would need to be unpacked on

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS alongside MS-DOS on old system

On 17/09/2019 01:00, Jon Brase wrote: My question isn't actually what packages are in base. My question is, given the presence of an existing MS-DOS install, what is the minimal set of packages that would need to be unpacked onto the MS-DOS partition *in order to get the package manager running*.

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS alongside MS-DOS on old system

On Mon, 16 Sep 2019 17:13:42 +0200 Eric Auer wrote: > Hi Jon, > > > To answer the question which packages are BASE, check > > > http://www.freedos.org/software/ > > The idea is that BASE has similar functionality to what > you get with a 3 floppy MS DOS installation or with the > DOS mode o

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS alongside MS-DOS on old system

Hi Jon, FreeDOS supports 28 bit LBA, so depending on whether you have BIOS bugs which require lower limits, you could use any size of harddisk as long as all partitions used by FreeDOS end within the first 128 GB ;-) Not sure whether Windows 95 supports LBA. MS DOS 6 does not, but it does not su

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS alongside MS-DOS on old system

On Mon, 16 Sep 2019 00:07:50 +0200 Eric Auer wrote: > Hi Jon, > > for your advanced multi boot project, you could boot FreeDOS > from floppy and use the SHSU... drivers to open the ISO file > of the install CD as if it were a CD drive, after using your > Windows or Debian to copy the ISO to your

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS alongside MS-DOS on old system

Hi Jon, for your advanced multi boot project, you could boot FreeDOS from floppy and use the SHSU... drivers to open the ISO file of the install CD as if it were a CD drive, after using your Windows or Debian to copy the ISO to your DOS/Win95 harddisk. The ISO has plenty of ZIPs to use with the

[Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS alongside MS-DOS on old system

Hello everyone, I have an old 1995-vintage pentium system running a triple-boot of Debian, MS-DOS 6.22, and Windows 95. I would like to install FreeDOS along side MS-DOS on the DOS 6.22 partition, but have been running into some trouble. The machine has a CD drive, but cannot boot from CD, and I c

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS with Bootcamp on a Mac

Hi, On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 7:15 PM, Eric Gorr wrote: > >> On Apr 9, 2016, at 9:40 PM, Rugxulo wrote: >> >> You don't absolutely need an installer at all. >> >> fdisk, (reboot), format, sys, (download or copy files) > > I am not sure I understand the steps involved here. 1). http://help.fdos.or

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS with Bootcamp on a Mac

> On Apr 9, 2016, at 9:40 PM, Rugxulo wrote: > > Hi, > > On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 10:26 AM, Eric Gorr wrote: >> >> I was just wondering if anyone knew if it was possible to install FreeDOS on >> Mac and, >> if it was possible, had instructions for how to do so. > > Have you tried bootable USB

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS with Bootcamp on a Mac

It was just a generic error message that the kernel failed to install and it asked me if I wanted to continue with the installation. There was no error code or anything more specific then that.On Apr 9, 2016, at 12:23 PM, Louis Santillan wrote:What error message did you get?On

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS with Bootcamp on a Mac

Hi, On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 10:26 AM, Eric Gorr wrote: > > I was just wondering if anyone knew if it was possible to install FreeDOS on > Mac and, > if it was possible, had instructions for how to do so. Have you tried bootable USB? > I have a MacPro Mid 2012 and am running El Capitan. I have a

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS with Bootcamp on a Mac

What error message did you get? On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 8:26 AM, Eric Gorr wrote: > I was just wondering if anyone knew if it was possible to install FreeDOS > on Mac and, if it was possible, had instructions for how to do so. > > I have a MacPro Mid 2012 and am running El Capitan. I have an inte

[Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS with Bootcamp on a Mac

I was just wondering if anyone knew if it was possible to install FreeDOS on Mac and, if it was possible, had instructions for how to do so. I have a MacPro Mid 2012 and am running El Capitan. I have an internal 250gb HD which I can wholly dedicate to this purpose and can prepare it however I wo

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS on the second partition of the disk

Aleve Sicofante schreef op 22-4-2013 2:07: > Thanks Jeremy and thanks to Felix too. I think at this point I should > paint the whole picture, so you guys get a better idea. > > I bought a 2.5" drive enclosure from Zalman, the VE-300, that acts as > two devices in one: it shows itself to the system

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS on the second partition of the disk

On 2013-04-22 21:39 (GMT+0200) Eric Auer composed: >> MiB cyl: * 64 32 (required for maximum performance for 4k sector aka >> "advanced format" HDs) > Why would 4k sector disks use any geometry at all? Disks don't "use" geometry. PC BIOS partition tables entries have multiple components. To con

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS on the second partition of the disk

On 2013-04-22 12:36 (GMT-0700) Mark Brown composed: > the lowest-order operating system has to be installed first, Though it tends to make desired results more likely and/or easier, it certainly need not. http://fm.no-ip.com/PC/install-doz-after.html -- "The wise are known for their understand

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS on the second partition of the disk

Hi Felix, >> I created two PRIMARY partitions: a 39GB one and a 1GB one. I marked the >> second partition as Active... Note that because your partition starts after the first 8 GB, no matter which geometry you use, the partition can only be reached with LBA. So "FAT32 with LBA" would be a good p

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS on the second partition of the disk

the lowest-order operating system has to be installed first, unless i'm missing something here...   eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com eufdp...@yahoo.com

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS on the second partition of the disk

2013/4/22 Felix Miata > > On 2013-04-22 02:07 (GMT+0200) Aleve Sicofante composed: > > > ...2.5" drive enclosure from Zalman, the VE-300... > > Is there any USB3 support in FreeDOS??? > > All my external backup cases except my oldest one include eSATA support. > eSATA is mostly all I ever use for

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS on the second partition of the disk

2013/4/22 Felix Miata > also maybe influenced or caused by VE-300 emulation firmware > when using it > All tests were done with the disk OUT of the VE-300 case. -- Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable o

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS on the second partition of the disk

On 2013-04-22 02:07 (GMT+0200) Aleve Sicofante composed: > I created two PRIMARY partitions: a 39GB one and a 1GB one. I marked the > second partition as Active. I did all this using the tools provided in the > FreeDOS CD. After partitioning and rebooting, I proceeded with the > installation of Fr

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS on the second partition of the disk

On 2013-04-22 02:07 (GMT+0200) Aleve Sicofante composed: > ...2.5" drive enclosure from Zalman, the VE-300... Is there any USB3 support in FreeDOS??? All my external backup cases except my oldest one include eSATA support. eSATA is mostly all I ever use for external HDs. They're DOS bootable ex

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS on the second partition of the disk

2013/4/21 Kenneth J. Davis > There are two different issues here. > 1) The hard drive's master boot record (MBR - 1st sector where the > partition table resides) must have bootable code installed. If you later > intend to boot an OS from the 1st partition then installing a boot manager > is a go

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS on the second partition of the disk

On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Aleve Sicofante wrote: > > > 2013/4/21 Felix Miata > >> On 2013-04-21 18:19 (GMT+0200) Aleve Sicofante composed: >> >> > Felix Miata composed: >> >> >> Because the first isn't a bootable OS anyway, I would definitely >> choose #1, >> >> the simplest. If the OS tha

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS on the second partition of the disk

On 2013-04-21 19:32 (GMT+0200) Aleve Sicofante composed: > Felix Miata composed: >> On 2013-04-21 18:19 (GMT+0200) Aleve Sicofante composed: >> > Felix Miata composed: >> >> Because the first isn't a bootable OS anyway, I would definitely choose >> >> #1, >> >> the simplest. If the OS that nee

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS on the second partition of the disk

2013/4/21 Felix Miata > On 2013-04-21 18:19 (GMT+0200) Aleve Sicofante composed: > > > Felix Miata composed: > > >> Because the first isn't a bootable OS anyway, I would definitely choose > #1, > >> the simplest. If the OS that needs access to the first is old and > >> unsophisticated, another so

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS on the second partition of the disk

On 2013-04-21 18:19 (GMT+0200) Aleve Sicofante composed: > Felix Miata composed: >> Because the first isn't a bootable OS anyway, I would definitely choose #1, >> the simplest. If the OS that needs access to the first is old and >> unsophisticated, another solution might be needed for it to maint

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS on the second partition of the disk

2013/4/21 Felix Miata > > On 2013-04-21 17:48 (GMT+0200) Aleve Sicofante composed: > > > Thanks Felix, so it doesn't matter which choice I select in the last > > installation step? I'm referring to the last step you can see on this > > picture: > > http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/freedos/nfs

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS on the second partition of the disk

On 2013-04-21 17:48 (GMT+0200) Aleve Sicofante composed: > Thanks Felix, so it doesn't matter which choice I select in the last > installation step? I'm referring to the last step you can see on this > picture: > http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/freedos/nfs/project/f/fr/freedos/5/5b/Installhd

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS on the second partition of the disk

2013/4/21 Felix Miata > On 2013-04-21 15:48 (GMT+0200) Aleve Sicofante composed: > > > I have a single 40GB disk and I need its first partition for other > > purposes, so I want to install FreeDOS on the second partition of the > > disk (that's the last 1GB of the disk, BTW). The process seems to

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS on the second partition of the disk

On 2013-04-21 15:48 (GMT+0200) Aleve Sicofante composed: > I have a single 40GB disk and I need its first partition for other > purposes, so I want to install FreeDOS on the second partition of the > disk (that's the last 1GB of the disk, BTW). The process seems to be > the same as if chose the fi

[Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS on the second partition of the disk

I have a single 40GB disk and I need its first partition for other purposes, so I want to install FreeDOS on the second partition of the disk (that's the last 1GB of the disk, BTW). The process seems to be the same as if chose the first partition, but when I'm finished, FreeDOS won't boot. It will

[Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS over Network

Hi Everyone Does anyone know how I can install FreeDOS form a PXE Boot server? I have a Pxe server that controls all my machines (when booted from the correct disk) All I want to do is boot to the Pxe server and install FreeDOS on to machines that do not Have any CD ROMS Is this pos

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS in a Qemu box.

> >> Also, you can try to NOT use emm386 and to NOT install USB and/or >> network drivers: With the FreeDOS 1.0 ISO, I remember that those >> two were very slow in detecting hardware etc. Another thing that >> you can try is using Bernd's preview of FreeDOS 1.1 which is much >> more up to date,

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS in a Qemu box.

Hi, On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Eric Auer wrote: > >> Are there any hints to install FreeDOS inside a Qemu box? I'm trying >> this right now, but the installation process is damn slow. This is >> the Qemu command line: > > Well Qemu emulates everything, including the CPU, as far as I > reme

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS in a Qemu box.

On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Tiago O. de Almeida wrote: > Are there any hints to install FreeDOS inside a Qemu box? I'm trying this > right now, but the installation process is damn slow. This is the Qemu > command line: > > qemu -cdrom ~/.qemu/fdbasecd.iso -hda ~/.qemu/freedos.img -boot > ord

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS in a Qemu box.

Hi Tiago, > Are there any hints to install FreeDOS inside a Qemu box? I'm trying > this right now, but the installation process is damn slow. This is > the Qemu command line: Well Qemu emulates everything, including the CPU, as far as I remember - you could try Dosemu (if you use Linux or BSD) a

[Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS in a Qemu box.

Are there any hints to install FreeDOS inside a Qemu box? I'm trying this right now, but the installation process is damn slow. This is the Qemu command line: qemu -cdrom ~/.qemu/fdbasecd.iso -hda ~/.qemu/freedos.img -boot order=c,once=d -m 31M -k pt-br -soundhw sb16 -M pc -smp 1 -cpu pentium -n

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS without the boot loader?

t; >From:Alain Mouette > >To: kellybe...@gwi.net > >Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS without the boot > loader? > >Date:Monday, June 14, 2010 9:57 PM > > > >I think that you are a bit con

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS without the boot loader?

This explanation by Eric Auer may be a little confusing, but note one thing: This is for having *both FreeDOS and Win98 in the same partition* but I am not sure if that is what was asked. In any case, I found very interesting this dual method :) Alain Em 14-06-2010 17:37, Eric Auer escreveu: >

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS without the boot loader?

Hi Alain, Eric, > FreeDOS does not need anything from the Win98 partition to boot. > The requisites are: > 1) it must boot from a primary partition > 2) the partition needs to be active. Not really... Because you use GRUB, it is enough if you have a valid boot sector in a FILE. Our SYS can mak

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS without the boot loader?

Hi FreeDOS does not need anything from the Win98 partition to boot. The requisites are: 1) it must boot from a primary partition 2) the partition needs to be active. Windows98 have the same requisites, that is the problem. But it can be solved by Grub.. This is how I did it: # This entry for F

[Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS without the boot loader?

Is it possible to install FreeDOS 1.0 on a Windows 95/98 machine without it installing the boot loader into the Windows 98 partition? I have an old laptop with Windows 98 and Linux. I use Grub to multiboot, so I don't need the FreeDOS boot loader, and don't want to interfere with the Win98 par

[Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS on a RAID Array

Hi, I am interested in buying the Asus P6T motherboard which features an ICH10R on its X58 chipset. The ICH10R supports building raid arrays with SATA disks. I would like to know if it is possible to install and boot FreeDOS directly to/from a RAID 0 array (with 3 disks) I do not intend to inst

Re: [Freedos-user] installing freedos on secondary drive

Hi! 26-Окт-2006 21:32 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (tom ehlert) wrote to Daniel Fodor : te> you can't boot FreeDOS from the second disk You can, also as any other OS. If BIOS supports disks swapping (ie. there is option in BIOS setup, which selects, which disk should be bootable). te> AFAIK it can on

Re: [Freedos-user] installing freedos on secondary drive

Safest is to disconnect the first harddisk, then install FreeDOS from CD to the 2nd harddisk, that will be C:. If your Linux and Windows partitions don't use FAT, C: will be 2nd drive anyway - Using Tomcat but need to do mo

Re: [Freedos-user] installing freedos on secondary drive

Actually, it's easy to boot FreeDOS from the second disk (any primary partition on any disk) using any of a number of boot loaders. GAG, for instance: gag.sourceforge.net. What isn't quite so easy is to force FreeDOS to recognize the desired partition as C: when booted from CD. Your partition c

Re: [Freedos-user] installing freedos on secondary drive

Hello Daniel, you can't boot FreeDOS from the second disk AFAIK it can only boot from a primary partition on the first disk Tom Thursday, October 26, 2006, 9:27:09 PM, you wrote: > Dear all, > I checked the faqs but could not find solution to my problem. > I have two harddisks: an 80 gb harr

[Freedos-user] installing freedos on secondary drive

Dear all, I checked the faqs but could not find solution to my problem. I have two harddisks: an 80 gb harrdisk (drive c) with win xp and linux and a free 10 gb harddisk (drive d). I would like to install freedos onto this latter harddisk. I make the partition on drive d restart my computer and

[Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS -- Worst Case Scenario

Installing FreeDOS -- Worst Case Scenario --   Hi,   If you have a boot disk and a FreeDOS installation CD**, but:   --- can't access the CD on the local machine,   --- get XMSSwap "no memdisk found" errors if you try to use the boo

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS on E:?

Hi Michael: Thank you VERY MUCH for this information. I will do some more experiments to try to narrow this down. What I was seeing was things like "del/s" freezing the computer before completing. Perhaps the disk was somehow corrupted. Or, maybe it was the wrong data in the boot sector (from

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS on E:?

At 02:43 AM 2/1/2005 +, Mark wrote: I just tried running some applications from a USB stick booting FreeDOS. It didn't work very well...the USB stick got slightly corrupted. I have seen similar problems today with MS-DOS without SMARTDRV, so some research is in order! USB boot corruption woul

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS on E:?

Hi Arkady: Ok, the BIOS provides support for DOS to recognize the partitions. This doesn't work on anything like all BIOS's, but it does seem to work on a lot of newer ones. I appreciate the clarification... I'm definitely still learning about how PC's boot. It is NOT true that C: is always a bo

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS on E:?

Hi! 27-Янв-2005 23:16 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: kn> between Linux and Windows. The BIOS maps both of kn> these drives (as C: and D:) when I boot the CD. BIOS doesn't maps anything, this does OS. And disk C: always assigned to bootabl

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS on E:?

Hi Aitor: I'm not positive, but I don't THINK GAG will recognize a USB device unless the BIOS recognizes it. If you try this, please let me know what you find out. I use GAG on all of my machines...much easier to configure than GRUB. Mark > Hi there, > > Sorry about the slight offtopic, but.

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS on E:?

Hi Bernd, Bernd Blaauw escribió: Aitor Santamaría Merino schreef: I am thinking of a great deal of possibilities with my IDE/ATA=>USB adapter provided that the target OS is capable of understanding that it is being booted from such device... (I don't know if any of the Windows would be able

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS on E:?

Aitor Santamaría Merino schreef: I am thinking of a great deal of possibilities with my IDE/ATA=>USB adapter provided that the target OS is capable of understanding that it is being booted from such device... (I don't know if any of the Windows would be able to do that). No, USB-driver stack

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS on E:?

Hi there, Sorry about the slight offtopic, but... [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: I'm using a boot loader called "GAG" to multiboot all of my computers. The laptop I'm using has FreeDOS, Windows XP, and Linux installed now with the GAG boot loader in the MBR. C: is the FreeDOS installation permanately

Re: Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS on E:?

Hi, > Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS on E:? > If you want a copy of the detailed installation for MS-DOS (which > requires manually copying files to the USB stick), let me know. I > hope to have it updated for FreeDOS soon. would be nice, yes, can you upload it

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS on E:?

Hi Bernd: Oh, I forgot to mention that the "SYS" command takes care of copying kernel.sys and command.com. Basically, if I copy the ODIN directory into something sensible and do a few tweaks of autoexec.bat and config.sys, then the USB stick boots and provides a good FreeDOS environment. My reas

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing FreeDOS on E:?

Hi Bernd: Thanks for the reply. This has been fun. :-) Mark > [EMAIL PROTECTED] schreef: > > > Yes, sorry. Alternatives are welcome, but I need to guarantee that a > bootsector is written in order to get a bootable system. Yes, you do need to write a boot sector. How about the following

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