Re: fdos for making a HD- bootable Linux

1998-05-17 Thread M.C. Vernon
> Hello all Linuxers, Greetings! > Me too, i have still a question, that i believe not beeing answered > yet. Its a little bit strange: My Debian distrib is obviously missing > the 'fdos' package needed by the mbr(?) tool to make Linux bootable from > the harddisk. I

fdos for making a HD- bootable Linux

1998-05-17 Thread Nils Radtke
Hello all Linuxers, Me too, i have still a question, that i believe not beeing answered yet. Its a little bit strange: My Debian distrib is obviously missing the 'fdos' package needed by the mbr(?) tool to make Linux bootable from the harddisk. If im right and didnt post a questio

fdos package needed

1998-01-21 Thread hollen
I have tried without success to find the fdos package on the Debian FTP site. I need it because mkrboot depends on it. I need mkrboot because boot-floppie depends on it. In case I am going in the wrong direction, my ultimate goal is to make a Debian boot/rescue disk with a custom kernel and the

fdos & als. #

1997-06-23 Thread Samuel J. MacDowell
Ave I will like to set up a dos emulation. Besides dosemu and dosfstools I'll need fdos. Right ? Well were to find de fdos ? I look at unstable directory but there is none. Thank you Samuel -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [

Re: fdos, and ncftp

1997-06-12 Thread Daniel J. Mashao
On 10 Jun 1997, Alair Pereira do Lago wrote: > > There already is a package with ncftp. It is in the non-free tree on any > > decent debian-ftp-server. You won't find the non-free tree on most > > "Cheap"-CDs like Cheap-Bytes (I think) or Infomagic's (I know) >

Re: fdos, and ncftp

1997-06-10 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 9 Jun 1997, Carl Fink wrote: > Two questions: I'll leave the other for someone else, since I installed dosemu by getting the sources and compiling it myself. > > As for NcFTP -- can a mere newbie user request a new package? I'm > used to NcFTP, which I've used on Panix (Sun) and on my

Re: fdos, and ncftp

1997-06-10 Thread Alair Pereira do Lago
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > There already is a package with ncftp. It is in the non-free tree on any > decent debian-ftp-server. You won't find the non-free tree on most > "Cheap"-CDs like Cheap-Bytes (I think) or Infomagic's (I know) You guessed wrong. Ch

Re: fdos, and ncftp

1997-06-10 Thread Randy Edwards
> (i.e. dosemu) that fdos is recommended, but not available. In fact, a > search of the Debian FTP structure shows that there *is* no fdos > package. What's up? With the new package of dosemu, fdos comes as part of dosemu and therefore isn't used as a separa

Re: fdos, and ncftp

1997-06-10 Thread freak
> As for NcFTP -- can a mere newbie user request a new package? I'm > used to NcFTP, which I've used on Panix (Sun) and on my home machine > under OS/2. Sure, I could compile it myself, but I'm afraid that as > soon as I do, a package would be released and I'd have a hard time > upgrading. :-)

Re: fdos, and ncftp

1997-06-10 Thread Christoph Lameter
says for a couple of packages : (i.e. dosemu) that fdos is recommended, but not available. In fact, a : search of the Debian FTP structure shows that there *is* no fdos : package. : What's up? : This is Debian 1.2. : On the same topic, dselect wants a "local" directory which isn&

fdos, and ncftp

1997-06-10 Thread Carl Fink
Two questions: I'm trying to set up a Debian system using a disk from Cheap*Bytes (part of their 5-disk set). dselect says for a couple of packages (i.e. dosemu) that fdos is recommended, but not available. In fact, a search of the Debian FTP structure shows that there *is* no fdos pa

Re: fdos

1997-06-02 Thread Scott K. Ellis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 1 Jun 1997, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Sun, 1 Jun 1997, Scott K. Ellis wrote: > > :On Sat, 31 May 1997, Nathan E Norman wrote: > : > :> Ok, perhaps I'm dreaming, but I thought fdos was in frozen at one time. > :> Now it

Re: fdos

1997-06-02 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, 1 Jun 1997, Scott K. Ellis wrote: :On Sat, 31 May 1997, Nathan E Norman wrote: : :> Ok, perhaps I'm dreaming, but I thought fdos was in frozen at one time. :> Now it's not ... I see that it's in unstable though ... this isn't a big :> deal as I'm just s

Re: fdos

1997-06-01 Thread Scott K. Ellis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 31 May 1997, Nathan E Norman wrote: > Ok, perhaps I'm dreaming, but I thought fdos was in frozen at one time. > Now it's not ... I see that it's in unstable though ... this isn't a big > deal as I'm just setting up a m

Re: fdos

1997-06-01 Thread Alexandre Lebrun
Alexandre On Sat, 31 May 1997, Nathan E Norman wrote: > Ok, perhaps I'm dreaming, but I thought fdos was in frozen at one time. > Now it's not ... I see that it's in unstable though ... this isn't a big > deal as I'm just setting up a machine to play around w

fdos

1997-06-01 Thread Nathan E Norman
Ok, perhaps I'm dreaming, but I thought fdos was in frozen at one time. Now it's not ... I see that it's in unstable though ... this isn't a big deal as I'm just setting up a machine to play around with. Can I install the unstable fdos into a frozen system? BTW, I

Re: Dosemu + FDOS problem

1997-02-28 Thread Hubert FAUQUE
On Tue, 31 Dec 1996 23:11:25 -0200, you wrote: >Hi. > >I've installed the packages "fdos" (from bo) and >"dosemu" (from rex), that are reported to work >together. The installation goes ok, and I can run >the dos emulator, who "boots" fro

Re: Where is fdos?

1997-01-08 Thread Nathan L. Cutler
I apologize for following up on my own message, but I just realized that I could have done better. >>>>> "Nathan" == Nathan L Cutler writes: Nathan> Try looking in bo/binary-i386/misc as well. However, I've Nathan> tried getting fdos to work and it

Re: Where is fdos?

1997-01-08 Thread Nathan L. Cutler
>>>>> "Johann" == Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Johann> I have trouble in finding fdos. I want to instal dosemu Johann> and fdos is recommend. In more than one mirror site's Johann> ls-lr-file there is a reference to fdos in

Where is fdos?

1997-01-07 Thread Johann Spies
I have trouble in finding fdos. I want to instal dosemu and fdos is recommend. In more than one mirror site's ls-lr-file there is a reference to fdos in the rex/binary-386/misc directory, but there is no such file. Can somebody help, please? J

Dosemu + FDOS problem

1997-01-01 Thread Alexander Gieg
Hi. I've installed the packages "fdos" (from bo) and "dosemu" (from rex), that are reported to work together. The installation goes ok, and I can run the dos emulator, who "boots" from the FreeDOS disk, but there is many error messages (something like "