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Re: FreeDOS disk image?

2005-05-05 by numaniod2005

Clicked on the link for this but all I get is the the message "this 
Page cannot be displayed"????



--- In Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com, Steve Wahl <steve@p...> wrote:
> > 
> > Message: 2         
> >    Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 06:37:57 -0700
> >    From: Joe McMahon <mcmahon@i...>
> > Subject: FreeDOS disk image?
> > 
> > Does anyone still have this to upload to the files section? 
Mine's gone 
> > AWOL and EDE isn't working on my HP, no matter what compatibility 
I 
> > request.
> 
> Excerpts from my previous email, web address still valid:
> 
> > OK, here's how it can be done:  I put together a version of 
freedos
> > for anyone who needs it.  http://www2.pro-ns.net/~steve/fdvfx.zip.
> > It makes a floppy-bootable version of freedos that starts up with 
a
> > ramdisk.  After extracting the archive, make a floppy with it
> > (install.bat does this for you), then copy EDE.EXE and whatever 
vfx
> > disk image you want to use on the floppy.  Boot from the floppy, 
pause
> > and reflect how slow floppies feel in the modern day, and when 
you get
> > the Z:\> prompt, run ede.  (I pretty much successfully tested this
> > process myself).
> > 
> > Anybody providing disk images is welcome to make a copy of this 
for
> > their own distribution.  Heck, anybody NOT providing disk images 
is
> > welcome as well...
> > 
> > And, by the way, I don't use DOS or Freedos or anything like that 
on a
> > regular basis.  I don't prefer or recommend freedos over any other
> > options, except that I could create this and distribute it to the 
rest
> > of you without any license problems.
> > 
> > --> Steve

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