If you're looking for C++11, you'll need to be on Linux, BSD, or Solaris. The compilers just don't exist for DOS.
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 2:44 AM, Jim Michaels <[email protected]> wrote: > I was intending to create my own ISO from the .VHD file I intend to make, > making my own distribution as usual, which includes the freedos stuff, and > my own tools. > > maybe I am fighting a losing battle here... > I need a commercial C++11 compiler for DOS for a number of reasons. my last > look at openwatcom left me underwhelmed, it doesn't even have a fully > working string class. sad. :-( > > > > > ------------- > Jim Michaels > [email protected] > [email protected] > http://RenewalComputerServices.com > http://JesusnJim.com (my personal site, has software) > --- > IEC Units: Computer RAM & SSD measurements, microsoft disk size measurements > (note: they will say GB or MB or KB or TB when it is IEC Units!): > [KiB] [MiB] [GiB] [TiB] > [2^10B=1,024^1B=1KiB] > [2^20B=1,024^2B=1,048,576B=1MiB] > [2^30B=1,024^3B=1,073,741,824B=1GiB] > [2^40B=1,024^4B=1,099,511,627,776B=1TiB] > [2^50B=1,024^5B=1,125,899,906,842,624B=1PiB] > SI Units: Hard disk industry disk size measurements: > [kB] [MB] [GB] [TB] > [10^3B=1,000B=1kB] > [10^6B=1,000,000B=1MB] > [10^9B=1,000,000,000B=1GB] > [10^12B=1,000,000,000,000B=1TB] > [10^15B=1,000,000,000,000,000B=1PB] > > > ________________________________ > From: Rugxulo <[email protected]> > To: Technical discussion and questions for FreeDOS developers. > <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, January 17, 2014 10:33 AM > Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] freedos.img - spoke too soon > > Hi, > > On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 6:25 AM, Jim Michaels <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I don't know the format. apparently doing a dry run of a disk check is not >> a >> good test of whether or not something is in the right format. vbox's >> latest >> VM rejected them all. I don't understand this. I get errors converting >> from >> RAW. > > (EDIT: See below.) If all you want is to use FreeDOS under VirtualBox, > you just mount the .iso as CD and boot and install like normal. So > apparently that's the preferred way. AFAIK, there is no premade > virtualization image file. (Maybe having one would be easier, but it > seems like a redundant waste of space.) > >> if it were in RAW format, apparently none of the available >> raw/vdi/vhd/vmdk >> formats work with virtualbox. I guess this came off of a mac. someone >> please >> fix and get it in the right hard drive format vbox can use. thanks. > > Which VBox version are you testing with? It that particular format > fully supported? Did that format work in previous versions? You may > have to file a VBox bug report (or feature request). EDIT: Nope, see > below. :-) > >> just what format is this in? I need to do some work. > > Actually, a quick search shows this, which is what I'm blindly > assuming you're referring to (since you didn't say specifically): > > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/unofficial/virtualbox/ > > freedos.img.zip 2012-Aug-01 15:57:37 3.5M application/zip > readme.txt 2012-Aug-01 15:58:26 0.1K text/plain > > (quoting README.TXT): "From Kirk Strauser at > http://honeypot.net/2011/10/11/making-dos-usb-images-on-a-mac/"; > > Apparently it's a (FD 1.0) "bootable USB flash drive image" tested > with VirtualBox 4.1.4 (and has to be "installed", eh?, see his site: > convert to raw, dd [OS X] to physical USB drive). He apparently used > it to flash the BIOS on his server (go figure). > >> I also need to find a bootable floppy image for freedos. could someone >> help? >> I could not find such a disk image on the freedos 1.1 iso. I thought I >> found >> it before, but I guess I was wrong. > > Floppies are considered a dead technology. I'm not sure they are even > manufactured anymore, at least by most companies (e.g. Sony). You can > probably still find something, but it's far from the preferred and > suggested medium. In other words, nobody cares, and that makes things > much harder. USB is "teh futurez", hence why people prefer that (see > RUFUS if you want to install FreeDOS to jump drives). > > http://rufus.akeo.ie/ > > Also, keep in mind that FreeDOS is very low on volunteers (AFAIK, the > FD 1.1 distribution was entirely rolled by one dude, Bernd Blauw), so > most people (myself included) who do spend a little time with it > aren't exactly interested in supporting something that only 1% of > users need. (I had some older unofficial floppy images that I barely > had maintained, but to say it's very tedious is an understatement. And > the thousands of little pieces just change too fast. So you're stuck > with outdated stuff or constantly out of space or always trying to > find a billion sources and dependencies as well as testing to make > sure it all works. Making something simple is easy, but making > something that is universally useful to most end users is not.) > > You'll presumably have to use an older floppy image (see below) or > just install and make your own (via VBox, QEMU, etc). > > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/unofficial/ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. > Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For > Critical Workloads, Development Environments & Everything In Between. > Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. > Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For > Critical Workloads, Development Environments & Everything In Between. > Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. 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