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Subject: Re: Will DJGPP work with PTS-DOS 32?
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 07:46:40 -0700 (PDT)
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Hi,

On Mar 19, 8:31=A0am, themouse <usul DOT the DOT mo DOT  DOT  DOT  AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
>
> I got no response on the freedos news group and I posted one message
> to the user
> list and didn't get a response. Way back in the day when linux was
> hard
> to install I got flamed pretty bad, I'm still gun shy about posting.
> LOL.

FreeDOS guys are just busy, I guess. Sad, really, they need more
volunteers.

> My problem was I forgot to mark the partition as active.
> Now its installed but boots to a blank screen.
> I tried to install linux. I got Puppy to boot.
> I installed it just fine, the difference I "think" is that grub was
> installed as a boot loader.
> I'm going to start over tonight and use a bootloader with FreeDos and
> see.

fdisk - create a FAT partition, mark as active, reboot
format - make readable by DOS
sys c: - adds boot sector, kernel.sys, command.com

I don't think Linux is really any easier now (esp. when UMSDOS isn't
supported by the 2.6.x series). Then again, nothing is.

> I'm getting it, its a good thing I'm stubborn. LOL
> Till then I will use QEMU. which is ok for poking through code,
> but prob not a great place to build a xwindows ish desktop
> for dos.

QEMU is good, just not as fast as you'd like. In particular, I don't
think compiling there is such a good idea. But feel free to
suffer^H^H^H^H try anyways.    ;-)