DOS ain't dead

DR-DOS Enhancement Project (Announce)

posted by lproven  , Prague, Czechia, 09.12.2017, 20:25

Small update:

Thanks to the info you gave me, I've updated my VM to 7.01-7.

Again, the boot disk image in the download is the wrong size for
Virtualbox. Again, it's empty anyway. So I had to resize it, then
populate it, then boot my VM off it and install from it.

There's a small feature regression: quitting TaskMgr now hangs the OS.
And I'm still not seeing as much free RAM as I'd like. But it's
there and it works.

I will try to make a bootable USB from it next.

The key there seems to be:

[1] You need a DOS kernel that understands LBA.
[2] You need to make the partition from DOS. It's not happy with one
created by GParted, for example. But I can use Gparted to mark the
partition as active, that seems OK.
[3] With PC-DOS, anyway, it won't SYS it. I had to do ``format D:
/s''. I suspect DR-DOS _will_ format it. We'll see.

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Complete thread:

• DR-DOS Enhancement Project - lproven, 16.11.2017, 13:21
  • anyDOS Enhancement Project - tom, 16.11.2017, 15:58
    • anyDOS Enhancement Project - lproven, 16.11.2017, 16:49
      • anyDOS Enhancement Project - Rugxulo, 17.11.2017, 01:24
  • DR-DOS Enhancement Project - roytam, 17.11.2017, 00:20
    • DR-DOS Enhancement Project - lproven, 17.11.2017, 00:49
      • DR-DOS Enhancement Project - lproven, 08.12.2017, 23:33
        • DR-DOS Enhancement Project - Rugxulo, 09.12.2017, 18:29
          • DR-DOS Enhancement Project - lproven, 09.12.2017, 18:54
            • DR-DOS Enhancement Project - lproven, 09.12.2017, 20:25
            • DR-DOS Enhancement Project - Rugxulo, 09.12.2017, 20:42
              • DR-DOS Enhancement Project - RayeR, 17.12.2017, 04:23
            • DR-DOS Enhancement Project - RayeR, 17.12.2017, 04:26
              • DR-DOS Enhancement Project - lproven, 17.12.2017, 16:00
                • DR-DOS Enhancement Project - RayeR, 18.12.2017, 00:26