Re: [Freedos-devel] A call to action - FreeDOS 1.1

2008-07-30 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Tom Ehlert wrote: > > problem is, that the freedos stuff (both MBR and boot sector) don't > know about 'DS:SI information in memory', and ignore it > > what is this supposed to be (pointer into the booted partition entry)? > any links ? > Ah. The DS:SI information is simply that the MBR is sup

Re: [Freedos-devel] A call to action - FreeDOS 1.1

2008-07-30 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Tom, HPA, > problem is, that the freedos stuff (both MBR and boot sector) does > not know about 'DS:SI information in memory', and ignore it It was easy to add to the FAT32 LBA boot sector, but I have not uploaded the patch as I was waiting for comments: http://pastebin.com/m1d0f7dc5 It wou

Re: [Freedos-devel] A call to action - FreeDOS 1.1

2008-07-30 Thread Tom Ehlert
Hi Peter, >>> May I suggest: the ability to boot on an extended partition. Is there a >>> way to do this that I missed? I always get missing KERNEL.SYS if I boot >>> FreeDOS from Lilo or Grub and it's not on one of the four primary >>> partitions. >> >> Odds are you're running into a bug in Gr

[Freedos-devel] Uses for BGFAX

2008-07-30 Thread Marco Achury
I have found BGFAX very interesting. Is a simple a ligth fax program you can control from command line and return %errorlevel% that inform you if the fax transmission was successfull or not. If the author decides to release the source will be great, but even if he never does it, you can use ca

Re: [Freedos-devel] A call to action - FreeDOS 1.1

2008-07-30 Thread H. Peter Anvin
H. Peter Anvin wrote: > David Flater wrote: >>> I'd like to see us continue that with a FreeDOS 1.1. I don't think we >>> need to look at sweeping changes - but there are a few nice additions >>> that should be there: >> May I suggest: the ability to boot on an extended partition. Is there a >> w

[Freedos-devel] Fwd: BGFAX for DOS

2008-07-30 Thread Marco Antonio Achury Palma
-- Forwarded message -- From: B.J. Guillot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 2008/7/30 Subject: RE: BGFAX for DOS To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, Marco. This is OK by me to include the BGFAX binaries and documentation in the freedos distribution. We would probably wan

Re: [Freedos-devel] A call to action - FreeDOS 1.1

2008-07-30 Thread H. Peter Anvin
David Flater wrote: >> I'd like to see us continue that with a FreeDOS 1.1. I don't think we >> need to look at sweeping changes - but there are a few nice additions >> that should be there: > > May I suggest: the ability to boot on an extended partition. Is there a > way to do this that I misse

Re: [Freedos-devel] A call to action - FreeDOS 1.1

2008-07-30 Thread David Flater
> I'd like to see us continue that with a FreeDOS 1.1. I don't think we > need to look at sweeping changes - but there are a few nice additions > that should be there: May I suggest: the ability to boot on an extended partition. Is there a way to do this that I missed? I always get missing KERN

[Freedos-devel] freedos 1.1 : task switching on command line

2008-07-30 Thread iw2evk
Hi at all, it's possible create a Task swith on line using dpmi ,like DRDOS 7.03, to swith enter 2 or more task? Roberto iw2evk -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/freedos-1.1-%3A-task-switching-on-command-line-tp18731026p18731026.html Sent from the FreeDOS - Dev mailing list