Re: [Freedos-user] not pleased with 1.3 installer

Robert Thorpe composed on 2024-10-16 03:17 (UTC+0100): > May I suggest installing FreeDOS to a USB flash drive. That is to one > of those little USB pendrives/ USB keys. To what end? > I don't mean installing from a pendrive, I mean installing *to* one. > For FreeDOS you really don't need a lar

Re: [Freedos-user] not pleased with 1.3 installer

> On Oct 15, 2024, at 10:35 PM, Robert Thorpe via Freedos-user > wrote: > > May I suggest installing FreeDOS to a USB flash drive. That is to one > of those little USB pendrives/ USB keys. > > I don't mean installing from a pendrive, I mean installing *to* one. > For FreeDOS you really don'

Re: [Freedos-user] not pleased with 1.3 installer

May I suggest installing FreeDOS to a USB flash drive. That is to one of those little USB pendrives/ USB keys. I don't mean installing from a pendrive, I mean installing *to* one. For FreeDOS you really don't need a large hard drive. 2GB is sufficient and most USB keys are easily fast enough to

Re: [Freedos-user] Networking stopped working in VirtualBox after upgrade

Correction > On Oct 15, 2024, at 9:41 PM, Jerome Shidel via Freedos-user > wrote: > > > >> On Oct 15, 2024, at 5:56 PM, Michael Bernardi via Freedos-user >> > > wrote: >> >> I installed FreeDos 1.3 on VirtualBox a few months ago and everything

Re: [Freedos-user] Networking stopped working in VirtualBox after upgrade

> On Oct 15, 2024, at 5:56 PM, Michael Bernardi via Freedos-user > wrote: > > I installed FreeDos 1.3 on VirtualBox a few months ago and everything worked > fine (including the packet driver network connection). However on updating to > VirtualBox 7.12 when booting I now get the following me

Re: [Freedos-user] Accessibility question.

Hi Lawrence, You shared that you got freedos working with orca. What specific DOS programs did you test with that setup? Karen On Tue, 15 Oct 2024, Lawrence Perez via Freedos-user wrote: Hello, On a previous thread I discussed that I was able to get FreeDOS working under QEMU with Orca. I

[Freedos-user] Networking stopped working in VirtualBox after upgrade

I installed FreeDos 1.3 on VirtualBox a few months ago and everything worked fine (including the packet driver network connection). However on updating to VirtualBox 7.12 when booting I now get the following message: “Physical hardware networking is not supported at this time” Any ideal how this

Re: [Freedos-user] Accessibility question.

Hello, On a previous thread I discussed that I was able to get FreeDOS working under QEMU with Orca. I believe this would be a good alternative if we can’t get DOSEMU2 working under Linux. I imagine that Espeakup would work due to the -nographic QEMU option that sends output to a terminal. I ha

Re: [Freedos-user] not pleased with 1.3 installer

Michał Dec composed on 2024-10-15 20:08 (UTC+0200): > What is exactly your use case for over 20 logical partitions? I see a > lot of Linux distro names. If my assumption is correct that you keep Answered on 2024-10-15 00:16 (UTC-0400). > just the root filesystems of those distros as separate p

Re: [Freedos-user] not pleased with 1.3 installer

Hello Felix, I'm terribly sorry that you've encountered this. This is exactly the reason why I mess with FreeDOS' installer only in a backed up, virtualized environment before I update it in a live, baremetal system. What is exactly your use case for over 20 logical partitions? I see a lot o

Re: [Freedos-user] Accessibility question.

Hey, that's not a bad idea Lawrence. E-speak up could probably still work with Dos emu under Arch. It doesn't work on the newer version of Slint for some reason. It would be ideal to have a boot disk that would come up talking like Linux does. Maybe your thought of using Linux could work. Someo

Re: [Freedos-user] not pleased with 1.3 installer

> On Oct 14, 2024, at 9:47 PM, Felix Miata via Freedos-user > wrote: > > Felix Miata composed on 2024-10-14 20:47 (UTC-0400): > >> After at least 3 decades, one might think a DOS disk partitioner, or the >> FreeDOS >> installer, might have acquired an ability to not disturb anything that is

Re: [Freedos-user] Accessibility question.

Hello, I'm not a developer, but I believe there may be some complications with getting a software speech synthesizer to work. Most DOS systems are designed to be 16-bit, whereas modern software speech synthesizers typically run on 32-bit or 64-bit, or even, in the case of Raspberry Pi computers

Re: [Freedos-user] Accessibility question.

Other factor speaking personally with espeak is the largely poor speech quality. There is an effort to get copyright clearance for one of the dectalk software speech sources. I have no idea what the pi would provide speech wise, nor the cost factor. Still, there are dectalk USB units available a

Re: [Freedos-user] Accessibility question.

Thanks! I'll have a look at this. On 10/15/2024 6:36 AM, Mateusz Viste via Freedos-user wrote: On 14/10/2024 17:37, Mike Coulombe via Freedos-user wrote: Hi, That distro sounds interesting, but I need to run free dos on different computers. If it had speech accessibility free dos would be very

Re: [Freedos-user] Accessibility question.

On 14/10/2024 17:37, Mike Coulombe via Freedos-user wrote: Hi, That distro sounds interesting, but I need to run free dos on different computers. If it had speech accessibility free dos would be very useful to blind people world wide considering all the free dos programs you can get and the amo