Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 00:54:23 -0500 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pfgiffun@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co> To: FreeBSD-emulation@FreeBSD.org Subject: FreeDOS and doscmd: a report Message-ID: <3722AE0E.D0190AC9@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co>
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Howdy; I downloaded the latest FreeDOS (http://www.FreeDOS.org/, the "Mini" distribution) and tested it with doscmd from 3.1-Release. It booted fine, and as the FreeDOS information warned the disk was a bit slow, but in general terms it worked. I tried to make a virtual disk in the man page but I had two problems: 1) Unknown interrupt 13 function 41 This message appeared as soon as I ran fdisk. The screen never refreshed, which made it a bit difficult to create the new partition, but there were no further problems. fdisk worked well, BTW the virtual disk MUST be bigger than suggested in the manpage. 2) incorrect directory specified sys was unable to copy the kernel to the pseudo disk. I had already given up, but I tried to recreate the problem (restarting doscmd) and it worked! system transferred. 3) rebooting from the virtual disk: giffuni# doscmd -bx ax=6504 bx=0000 cx=0000 dx=3000 si=0000 di=0001 sp=7ffa bp=0000 cs=0000 ss=9800 ds=0000 es=0000 ip=0 eflags=b0202 04 66 00 f1 25 00 00 f1 02 00 30 f0 2a 00 00 f1 addb $0x66,%al unsupported instruction _______________ One strange thing is that when things went wrong , pressing CTRL-ALT or any mouse button didn't work. Ah well...I did get far, and had some fun. OK, that was it, the current state of affairs. I have DOS 5.0 and OpenDOS at hand that surely work, and the beta of a new multitasking DOS clone was released recently (RxDOS?), I might try that one next.. cheers, Pedro. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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