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Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos-user Digest, Vol 2173, Issue 1
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From: Björn M. <be...@bm...> - 2022-01-28 20:08:38
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Looks right to me and yes GRUB is not that easy, I have a similar machine an IBM 4DX 100 MHz with 3 Compact flash drives (CF to IDE) and one CDRW via a soudblaster IDE interface, works really well with UDVD2 even burning CDs from DOS. DSL on hda1 Freedos on hdb1 , Dr-Dos on hdb2 and windows 95 (with lite step shell ) on hdc1 - Never managed to boot Dr-Dos from GRUB so I installed Damn Small Linux4.11 RC2 and picked Lilo as bootloader, It allmoust worked out of the box everything booted except Dr-Dos but LILO has some good switches: other=/dev/hdb1 label="FreeDos(hdb1)" change automatic partition=/dev/hdb2 deactivate partition=/dev/hdb1 activate boot-as=0x80 other=/dev/hdb1 label="DrDos(hdb1)" change automatic partition=/dev/hdb1 deactivate partition=/dev/hdb2 activate boot-as=0x80 other=/dev/hdc1 label="Win95(hdc1) boot-as=0x80 Works fine I can boot all 4 without a problem. Den 2022-01-27 kl. 13:42, skrev Daniel: > I have a old Dell laptop that was originally XP that now is tri-boot. > I have FreeDos 1.3 RC5, XP, and even Linux. > > In order to do this you cannot simply install everything normally, at > least as far as I know. Feel free to correct me if I am wrong here. > > Here is the steps that I found that works: > First wipe the drive that you want to use, then using fdisk setup a > partition for FreeDOS and another for the other operating system as an > extended partition. Format and install FreeDOS on the first > partition. Do nothing for the second partition. Leave it alone until > you have installed FreeDOS installed andworking. > > Once it is installed and working, install the Linux distro you want > and tell it to setup and use the second partition you had set up in fdisk. > > This should allow you to use both Linux and FreeDOS together. > > Notice: Order of install matters! If you installed Linux, then > installed freeDOS you will need to update your grub to see and use the > new FreeDOS system which can be a pest. > > I hope this was helpful. > > On Thu, Jan 27, 2022 at 07:29 > <fre...@li...> wrote: > > Send Freedos-user mailing list submissions to > fre...@li... > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > fre...@li... > > You can reach the person managing the list at > fre...@li... > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Freedos-user digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Linux-freedos boot (and...@ti...) > 2. Re: Watcom compiler on FreeDOS 1.3 RC5 (Jerome Shidel) > 3. Re: Watcom compiler on FreeDOS 1.3 RC5 (Rugxulo) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2022 15:33:22 +0100 > From: and...@ti... > To: "Discussion and general questions about FreeDOS." > <fre...@li...> > Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Linux-freedos boot > Message-ID: <cbd...@ti...> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > > > Il 26.01.2022 00:39 Jerome Shidel ha scritto: > > >> On Jan 25, 2022, > at 4:16 PM, and...@ti... [1] wrote: > >> > >> OK, it's an old > annoing question:I have a laptop with linux installed and I created > another dos / fat 32 partition where I installed freedos 1.3. (before > installing freedos I activated C:ms-dos with part.exe). > >> OK Freedos, > but disappears Linux MBR, and I can't anymore access linux although I > have grub installed. > >> With GAG cd live you see linux but it is not > loaded due to problems in the MBR. > >> The only way to repair the MBR and > log in again in linux was to use the BOOT REPAIR live cd. > >> Or another > way to solve the problem? > >> Thanks, > >> andrea > > During installation, > the installer creates two backups and stores them in C:FreeDOS as > BOOT.MBR and BOOT.BSS. The MBR is created by FDISK when it is told to > update the boot code. The second is created by the SYS command. You > should be able to use FDISK to restore the MBR. > > There is an excellent > free DOS utility called MBRTOOL. It is not open source and has some > other distribution restrictions. But, it is free and can be legally > distributed as-is. Do to those restrictions it cannot be included with > the FreeDOS release. But, you can grab a mirrored copy from my website > at https://fd.lod.bz/redist/disk/MBRtool/ [4] v1.x is much smaller > than > v2.x. But, both work really well. It is a great tool to have laying > around for emergencies. > > :-) > > Jerome > > Thank you for your interest, > I will try to be more careful when I install freedos next time > > > >> > andrea > >> > >> Con Tiscali Mobile Smart 70 hai 70 GB in 4G, minuti > illimitati e 100 SMS a soli 7,99EUR al mese http://tisca.li/Smart70 > [2] > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> > Freedos-user mailing list > >> Fre...@li... [3] > >> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > > > > > Con Tiscali Mobile Smart 70 hai 70 GB in 4G, minuti illimitati e > 100 SMS a soli 7,99? al mese http://tisca.li/Smart70 > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2022 11:14:50 -0500 > From: Jerome Shidel <Je...@Sh...> > To: FreeDOS Users <fre...@li...> > Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Watcom compiler on FreeDOS 1.3 RC5 > Message-ID: <F96...@Sh...> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Hello Fabian, > > I just did several tests and am unable to replicate the issue you > are having. More information is needed. > > > On Jan 26, 2022, at 3:32 AM, Fabian Boucsein > <Fab...@gm...> wrote: > > > > Dear Freedos users, > > > > i recently installed a base installation of FreeDOS 1.3 RC5 > using the > > FullUSB edition. After that i tried to install the Watcom compiler > > with fdimples. > > How did you manage that? > > USB devices are not "Plug and Play" in DOS. You would need to have > the drive already plugged in when the system boots. That implies > you booted from the USB stick. When you do that, the system has > know idea how or where to place any things. You would need to set > some configuration information to be able to install any packages. > The installer does that a bunch of stuff during installation to > permit package installs. But, those are temporary changes only > active while the installer is running. > > > A lot of error messages appeared on the screen and > > in the end only 13 files or so were copied to the harddisk. I > checked > > the md5sum of the downloaded ZIP file and it matched the one on the > > FreeDOS website. > > the SUM was good for the download of FreeDOS or the Download to > the WATCOM package? > > > > > Is that error allready known to you or is it just my system that > behaves > > differently for whatever reason? > > What Errors? > > > > > After installing the Watcom from the IBIBLIO FreeDOS archive what > > do i need to configure the compiler so that i can use it? > > > > Many greetings, > > Fabian > > > > Jerome > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2022 12:33:14 -0600 > From: Rugxulo <ru...@gm...> > To: "Discussion and general questions about FreeDOS." > <fre...@li...> > Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Watcom compiler on FreeDOS 1.3 RC5 > Message-ID: > > <CAA...@ma...> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > Hi, > > On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 2:33 AM Fabian Boucsein > <Fab...@gm...> wrote: > > > > After installing the Watcom from the IBIBLIO FreeDOS archive what > > do i need to configure the compiler so that i can use it? > > set WATCOM=%RAMDRIVE%:\watcom19 > set INCLUDE=%WATCOM%\H > set EDPATH=%WATCOM%\EDDAT > set WIPFC=%WATCOM%\WIPFC > path %WATCOM%\BINW;%PATH% > REM ... optional ... > REM if "%DOS4G%"=="" set DOS4G=quiet > REM ren dos4gw.exe *.ex > REM copy /b cwstub.exe dos4gw.* > > This may also help: > * http://www.freedos.org/books/get-started/june25-c-programming.html > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Fre...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > > > ------------------------------ > > End of Freedos-user Digest, Vol 2173, Issue 1 > ********************************************* > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Fre...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user |
