FreeDOS 1.2 - Hackdot

Re:FreeDOS 1.2 by fsiefken on Monday December 26, 2016 @09:16PM (#13260873)

Hi Shakna, if you'd boot FreeDOS and Windows 3.1 directly, perhaps it would even be 4 seconds as you skip Linux booting and the DosBox latency.

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Re:FreeDOS 1.2 by shakna on Monday December 26, 2016 @10:05PM (#13261029)

I've been watching FreeDOS for this for a little while.

Unfortunately getting the particular program to install requires a little fudging as it tries to detect Win, and underlying DOS, and wants particular numbers to be present in the versions.

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Re:FreeDOS 1.2 by fsiefken on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @03:40AM (#13262010)

perhaps VERSION could fix this -http://help.fdos.org/en/hhstndrd/cnfigsys/version.htm

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Re:FreeDOS 1.2 by shakna on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @04:11AM (#13262122)

That is very interesting, I might try it out to see if it works.

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Re:FreeDOS 1.2 by shakna on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @07:39PM (#13267543)

Bugger.

The program tries to verify the integrity of MSDOS.SYS and VER.EXE with some sort of weak hash, as well as get the result of VER.

FreeDOS's VERSION gets me halfway though, now just to generate some dummy files when I work out the right hashing algo to use...

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Re:FreeDOS 1.2 by fsiefken on Wednesday December 28, 2016 @03:42AM (#13269303)

Thanks for the update! What about just copying those files over from MS-DOS?

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Re:FreeDOS 1.2 by shakna on Wednesday December 28, 2016 @03:49AM (#13269333)

Unfortunately that's not working right now... Guessing it does something else hacky to check that it truly is running on MSDOS and Win 3.1.

But it is on my list to investigate when I'm back to work.

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