Text 15999, 77 rader
Skriven 2012-09-11 22:13:00 av Ed Vance (2429.fi-linux)
  Kommentar till text 15990 av PAUL QUINN (3:640/384)
Ärende: Ubuntu
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PQ>Hi! Ed,
Hi Paul,

PQ>On Fri, 07 Sep 12, you wrote to me:

PQ> EV> I've been reading the FREEDOS echo for quite some time, and have
PQ> EV> learned a bit from it, just as I do here learning about Linux and
PQ> EV> U'u, etc....

PQ>Uh oh.  :-)

PQ> EV> Yesterday I downloaded the UBCD4WIN (Universal Boot CD For Windows)
PQ> EV> and found a FREEDOS Image file was in it so I had to play with it for
PQ> EV> a half hour or so.

PQ>Mmm... I didn't know about that one.  Is it like Bart's PE boot system?

UBCD4WIN has Bart's PE Boot Disk included in it.
I think UBCE4WIN starts from NUMENU, I think that's a Bart PE file???

PQ>I have played with FreeDOS a long time back, if it's based on the same
versio
PQ>that Digital Research started, that is.

I don't think so, I think some one in the FreeDOS echo started making
the program, it may be He worked at DR, I don't know and can't remember
any reference to DR, but my memory may be faulty.

PQ> EV> The FD image wasn't the full blown FD, it was a 1.44MB Floppy sized
PQ> EV> Boot Disk type file.

I tried looking at the README file and AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS using
the EDIT program and the mouse wouldn't work since there wasn't a mouse
driver on the FREEDOS image.

The Mouse drivers are on the regular FREEDOS download which I think will
fit on a CD disk. ?

PQ>I had the same trouble when I looked for a MS-DOS 6.2x boot disk.  I gave my
PQ>original disks away years ago to a bloke who was in need.  He was a Vietnam
PQ>Vet.  Anyhow, I found a neat site that helped me...

PQ>  http://www.allbootdisks.com/

I have some Boot Floppies I made from another website called
bootdisk.com .

A search I just did looks like allbootdisks.com is a new web site.
Thanks for the URL.

PQ>The only hiccup was that their image was missing a couple of files.  Can't
PQ>remember what they were but it might have been Qbasic & the help system or
th
PQ>editor.[shrug]  I've had a sleep since then and just can't recollect.  It
was
PQ>enough to get a rough vBox going to test BATch scripts in.

I don't know if a BASIC program is made for FREEDOS, I think FREEDOS is
Freeware and wouldn't have QBASIC because it is a MS program.

I've read comments about some utilities NOT being included in FREEDOS
because it utility wasn't GNU freeware.

PQ>I've had better luck with a MS-DOS 7.01 disk that I made yonks ago.  It was
o
PQ>of those EBDs (Emergency Boot Disk) things created by Win98SE, slightly
PQ>modified by having more utils on the PATH and the last stage of the boot
endi
PQ>up at a DOS 'screensaver'.  :)

I'm glad you found a way to work with what you had to get what you
wanted to have.


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