[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 IntelĀ® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and

[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] CD not accessible

2004-03-08 Thread Ray Davison
I have been using DRDOS since version 6. I just tried FREEDOS. I cerated an installation CD and install seemed to got OK. It boots. The only changes I made were to rename config.sys and autoexec.bat to fdconfig.sys and fdauto.bat, edit both shell statements to reflect fdauto.bat, and take th

Re: [Freedos-user] CD not accessible

2004-03-09 Thread Ray Davison
Bernd Blaauw wrote: Ray, do you have more info? which cdrom (the burned FreeDOS beta9 prerelease 4 ISO-file?) did you use, in which cdrom-drive? fdosboot.bin contains 9FREEDOS. Kernel is dated 31 Jan 04. I didn't see the kernel identify itself during boot. what if replacing AtapiCDD by anoth

[Freedos-user] LAN connection?

2004-03-09 Thread Ray Davison
Is it possible to connect FREEDOS to a LAN? I looked at the page below but without descriptions I didn't recognize anything. Ray http://www.freedos.org/freedos/software/lsm.cgi?q=d&a=net --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutori

Re: [Freedos-user] CD not accessible

2004-03-09 Thread Ray Davison
Ray Davison wrote: what if replacing AtapiCDD by another cdrom-driver? Used a cdrom.sys V 4.14 internally dated Jan 99. CD is now readable. I was mistaken, cdrom.sys does not really work. With oakcdrom.sys H: properly reads the CD, A and B are still confused. Ray

[Freedos-user] HPFS access

2004-03-16 Thread Ray Davison
Is there anything available that will allow FREEDOS to read and write HPFS partitions larger than 2G? Ray --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo te

Re: [Freedos-user] HowTo dual boot dos/win98se dos

2004-04-03 Thread Ray Davison
Michael Bernardi wrote: I currently have a 4Gig HD (formatted with Win98 format.com) with FreeDos installed as the operating system. But since the freedos disk utilities don't all support FAT32 I was wondering if it was possible to add the Windows 98SE DOS OS (from Windows\Command) and the appropri

[Freedos-user] Configuration files help

2004-06-10 Thread Ray Davison
Would someone please suggest basic contents for FDCONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT? I have been using DOS continuously since Ver 3.3, mostly DRDOS since Ver 6, and now FREEDOS. However, I haven't studied DOS much for several years. I am running Socket 7, P3, P4 and AMD 2200 with between 256M and 5

Re: [Freedos-user] Configuration files help

2004-06-12 Thread Ray Davison
Thank you all. Below is a first cut to beat up on. The box I am using for this has two floppies, a ZIP100, DVDROM\CDROM, DVD W\CD W, two HDD; both plug in. All are functional under FD. On the HDD that is plugged in for this exercise, C: drive currently boots DRDOS 7, FreeDOS 5, MSDOS 6 and Win

Re: [Freedos-user] Re: Configuration files help

2004-09-06 Thread Ray Davison
Eric Auer wrote: > DRDOS 7, FreeDOS 5, MSDOS 6 and Win98SE. Correction, it is MSDOS 7.10. I think I do have 6 also, but I have never used it. Interesting collection. Let me know if you have time for some comparisons / benchmarks / ... ;). Yes, if I get FREEDOS tuned, and you suggest what to ru

[Freedos-user] FDOS boot

2006-01-05 Thread Ray Davison
Can someone give me some help with the boot files? I have been using DRDOS since V 6, but FDOS is new to me. The machine is an AMD 2200, single HDD, 100M Zip, CD-RW, CD-DVD-RW. DRDOS is also on C:. W98SE will be. OS selection is done by Acronis OS Selector. I have a similar setup - with a

Re: [Freedos-user] re: FDOS boot

2006-01-05 Thread Ray Davison
Eric Auer wrote: In short, you should only use EMM386 with the X=TEST option So is EMM386 not a functioning element of FDOS? What about the CD\DVD issue? And what about the use and configuration of the drivers at http://johnson.tmfc.net/freedos/frame.html Ray -

Re: [Freedos-user] re: FDOS boot

2006-01-06 Thread Ray Davison
Johnson Lam wrote: On Thu, 05 Jan 2006 16:46:55 -0800, you wrote: Hi Ray, What about the CD\DVD issue? You got any problem? XCDROM does not see the second drive. OAKCDROM and VIDE-CDD do see it. And what about the use and configuration of the drivers at http://johnson.tmfc.net/freedos/fr

Re: [Freedos-user] re: FDOS boot

2006-01-06 Thread Ray Davison
Florian Xaver wrote: You got any problem? XCDROM does not see the second drive. OAKCDROM and VIDE-CDD do see it. I have 2, and the driver found them (look at the config.sys). DEVICE=duse.exe MEM=190 SEC=2048 DRIVES=1 NOCD EMU What is DUSE ? DEVICE=xcdrom.sys /D:FDCD001 I tried DEV

[Freedos-user] Install CD won't

2006-04-25 Thread Ray Davison
I have a CD made from the ISO. The readme identifies it as: b9 #2 30 Nov 2005. During install the kernel version is 0.0.35. Is this the most recent? It gets to "Uncompressing and loading UPXed CPI (CPX)." And then "Invalid Opcode..." Anyone understand this? Ray -

[Freedos-user] Multiple CD\DVD drives

2006-05-16 Thread Ray Davison
What drivers are available that will handle multiple CD\DVD drives and what switches are appropriate? I am currently using Oak and Shcdx because Oak is the only one I have been able to get to see more than one drive. TY Ray --- Using Tomca

Re: [Freedos-user] why make partitions hidden?

2006-06-07 Thread Ray Davison
Lester Vedrox wrote: >>AB> Repartition disk (by FDISK or somethink like Partition Magic). >> >>EA> Use a GOOD partition editor (not MS FDISK... preferrably something with a >>reasonable user interface and something which you are good at using. > > > James, you should probably consider investing

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] 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

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