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Re: XMSDSK works in DOS 6 but not in DOS 7+

Posted on 2021-08-14, 01:28

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

I did try a setup where I make the boot disk as a floppy and then added all application files to the CD. The problem there is despite all the cdrom drivers listed on the site someone just suggested to me, none of them want to work with my external DVD/RW drive and its connected via USB. But anyways, …

Re: XMSDSK works in DOS 6 but not in DOS 7+

Posted on 2021-08-13, 23:27

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

So I tried again with the boot CD functioning as a bootable hard drive and I still run into the same issue again with XMSDSK. Lockup. What's even more interesting to note is I boot in safe mode to access command prompt, and if I try accessing a floppy disk drive letter A or B, I get: Invalid drive …

Re: XMSDSK works in DOS 6 but not in DOS 7+

Posted on 2021-08-13, 23:05

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in Marvin \ Software

FORMAT with /s parameter works the same way as SYS for transferring the relevant content for booting. Yes but because I want to prepare my new boot drive from the get-go, I use format for good measure. Also, I noticed something. I decided to make my CD act like a bootable floppy now instead of a …

Re: Old TCP/IP networking

Posted on 2021-08-13, 22:17

in PC Emulation

in PC Emulation

No need to go to VCFed, Mike Brutman has an account here? mbbrutman He over there more often than here. Other members not on vogons.org will chime in as well.... Actually, I lurk here just about as much as I do at vcfed ... (I was a moderator there, but I've scaled back.) I've been having email …

Re: DOS 6.22 partition not booting despite following right steps

Posted on 2021-08-13, 22:12

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

blah. After you set up the partition the first time around, and can't get the drive/cf to boot, If you then boot again off the cd, is the hard drive/cf card still the second drive? If it isn't and it's the first drive, you should be able to run fdisk /mbr and activate the partition, which should …

Re: XMSDSK works in DOS 6 but not in DOS 7+

Posted on 2021-08-13, 22:10

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

The [Options] are fine except for one little detail. MSDOS.SYS from the Windows 95 and 98 has some additional lines that does nothing and it is only used for compatibility as it needs to be more than 1024 bytes. But what makes me curious is to why the 1024 byte requirement. On the boot disks …

Re: XMSDSK works in DOS 6 but not in DOS 7+

Posted on 2021-08-13, 21:54

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Seems fine, tried to reproduce it with those settings and didn't hang up on me when booting from the HDD. But in my situation, I'm using a CD as the bootable hard drive filled with dos files. the hard drive is not bootable as of yet. Maybe theres other settings I could modify. In the dos boot disks …

Re: XMSDSK works in DOS 6 but not in DOS 7+

Posted on 2021-08-13, 21:50

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

XMSDSK has a command line switch called "/t".... Tried that switch too and got same issue. Another thing is that I don't know if that version of HIMEM.SYS located at C:\DOS is from 6.22 since that one limits the XMS memory at 64MB. I wonder if the boot disks from allbootdisks.com are corrupted in …

Re: XMSDSK works in DOS 6 but not in DOS 7+

Posted on 2021-08-13, 18:45

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Could you show how do you have set CONFIG.SYS.... switches= /F device=c:\dos\himem.sys /testmem:off lastdrive=Z buffers=40 files=128 and AUTOEXEC.BAT? xmsdsk.exe Z: 32767 /y My config files aren't fancy. But the lockup occurs while executing that line in autoexec.bat. One source states that it may …

Re: Old TCP/IP networking

Posted on 2021-08-13, 18:38

in PC Emulation

in PC Emulation

I actually managed to pull it off with TCP/IP over windows sockets before in windows 9x and its DOS (no IPX) but now I gotta make a universal solution so it works in real DOS and in other OS's that can handle a virtual DOS like DOSBOX and dosemu and virtualbox etc. This file was my starting point: …

Re: DOS 6.22 partition not booting despite following right steps

Posted on 2021-08-13, 18:26

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Caluser2000 wrote on 2021-08-13, 01:40: What was the hdd set up as? Master, Slave or cable select? Its a flash drive set as master and the bios recognizes it fine and I can write data to it. What system are you doing this giggery pokery on? Real or some VM? Real Dell Wyse thinclient with an …

XMSDSK works in DOS 6 but not in DOS 7+

Posted on 2021-08-13, 02:59

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

I'm trying to make myself a ramdrive again using XMSDSK for my bootable hard drive image CD. I redone this CD several times. First it was DOS 6.22 . The XMSDSK utility works wonderful in that, but trying to transfer the MBR over to the real hard drive so I can get it to boot (with DOS6.22) was a no- …

Re: DOS 6.22 partition not booting despite following right steps

Posted on 2021-08-13, 02:52

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

the hard drive is fine otherwise I wouldn't be able to read to or write from it

DOS 6.22 partition not booting despite following right steps

Posted on 2021-08-13, 01:28

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

maybe it's just FDISK, but I'm having one heck of a time trying to boot from the local hard drive after an OS transfer. Let me explain. I have a CD which represents a bootable MS-DOS 6.22 hard drive. I then run FDISK and change drive letters to D to access the hard drive, and I create a partition to …

Re: Arachne browser doesn't work well on a boot CD

Posted on 2021-08-13, 00:23

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in Marvin \ Software

Ok, so back to Arachne 1.70 I go since it loads properly. The arachne 1.9x builds don't even load right. The ray's version takes forever to load before I get a colored arrow and some screen. The other port of arachne 1.9x (from glennmcc website) doesn't even load a graphics screen. I think my next …

Re: Arachne browser doesn't work well on a boot CD

Posted on 2021-08-12, 23:41

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Maybe don't try to use the program on a read-only drive, and use a RAM drive instead That is exactly what I did. I setup my bootable hard-drive emulated CD so that the first things it does is allocate a ram drive then copy every file over to it then changes the drive to the ram drive so the CD …

Arachne browser doesn't work well on a boot CD

Posted on 2021-08-12, 21:49

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Arachne 1.70 is a graphical web browser for DOS. I made myself a bootable CD that is basically an emulated hard disk. I put the CD into a new external CD/DVD drive attached to my (old) dell wyse thin client. Booting is OK, and the file contents are shown on drive C which is also OK. I also see that …

Re: Old TCP/IP networking

Posted on 2021-08-12, 21:33

in PC Emulation

in PC Emulation

hmm duke nukem 3d like most dos stuff used IPX.. so your doing an IPX encapsulated inside TPCIP packet driver? In a sense, yes, except I don't need to understand IPX because duke nukem and a few other dos games use the commit driver specification for data preparation and TCP/IP and IPX are …

Re: A universally compatible emulated hard drive

Posted on 2021-08-12, 07:41

in PC Emulation

in PC Emulation

darry wrote on 2021-07-25, 00:12: Glad you got it to work and thanks for sharing the steps. Just a question as to what distro/release you are using as compiling the latest release of the original DOSEMU on current Debian is, to put it mildly, less than fun . Slackware 14.0 32-bit and I downloaded …

Re: Old TCP/IP networking

Posted on 2021-08-06, 23:18

in PC Emulation

in PC Emulation

Ringding wrote on 2021-08-02, 05:32: Have you read https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc793? I reviewed variants of it but I'll look again to see if i missed anything

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