Re: [Freedos-user] Questions on news:alt.os.free-dos

2006-12-21 Thread Mark Bailey
Hi Nick: Well, the product is a floppy disk image file which people can download and either copy to a real floppy, use in a virtual machine, or use to create a bootable CD. You would need to boot a version of FreeDOS with the kernel and command.com that you want to use, and use the "SYS" command

Re: [Freedos-user] Questions on news:alt.os.free-dos

2006-12-21 Thread Nick Warren
This is interesting. I've been waiting for the 1.0 Floppies to come out for a very long time now. I'm not very experienced with such things, but I would be glad to put a floppy distro together if someone gave me some advice. Exactly how would I go about doing that? On 12/20/06, Eric Auer <[EMAIL

Re: [Freedos-user] Questions on news:alt.os.free-dos

2006-12-20 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, have some answers :-). Maybe you can push them into alt.os.free-dos somehow, in a spam-safe way... > Google Groups is a nice web<>USENET interface. Have a look at > http://groups.google.com/group/alt.os.free-dos > Look for "Kernel Bug" (the first message right now) and > "FreeDOS Install Lang

Re: [Freedos-user] Questions on news:alt.os.free-dos

2006-12-20 Thread Stegozor
Eric Auer wrote: > Hi Stegozor, Hi Eric, > wasnt there some gmane interface or something which would > make the newsgroup available on www? Or maybe you could http://www.Gmane.org is a newsgroup interface/archive for the mailing list, however, gmane groups are not spread across USENET. They are

Re: [Freedos-user] Questions on news:alt.os.free-dos

2006-12-20 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Stegozor, wasnt there some gmane interface or something which would make the newsgroup available on www? Or maybe you could just forward the questions to the list or to me? Thanks! The diskette distro still has no news, which you could say to be my fault. I just made SOME distro once, but nev

[Freedos-user] Questions on news:alt.os.free-dos

2006-12-20 Thread Stegozor
Hi all, I'm lurking news:alt.os.free-dos and wanted to report that there are two questions that might be interesting for FreeDOS coders. One is talking about problems with install language, another one about a possible kernel bug. None of these messages got a response until now (MessageIDs : [