Just installed this on an old Prolinea 486 myself. Hadn't used it for 10 or 15 years. It's gotten a heck of a lot better. We'll see if it retains compatibility with old DOS games, but so far so good.
thanks this worked on my old 2008 hp notebook and runs great! they fixed it you can know install all the packages with out moving them to the main drive.
Thank you. I did see a large number there approaching a gigabyte and didn't know how much more a person might want to load. I am going to use 4 gigabytes instead of 32 (my only choices).
First of all nice video. Thank you. It left with a couple of questions (1) what sizes of USB drives do you need for installation and portable (2) what is the safest way to give this a separate partition on a drive especially if you don't want any conflicts with a linux distro partition and boot.
FreeDOS is tiny, so even a 1gb stick is fine if I recall ok. I'd use gparted or ranish partition editor to resize the partitions you have at present and create a new DOS partition before installing FreeDOS, then boot Linux from USB and reinstall grub2 with the option to boot FreeDOS from grub2 rather than MBR
Make sure you xcopied into the correct dir. Boot back to usb and look in the dir again to check all the files are in the equivalent folder on c: and d: . If not, run xcopy again
Hi, I followed the same method but FreeDOS always tells me that "Drive D: does not appear to be partitioned" after each reboot. I never see "Drive D: does not appear to be formatted."
Folks there is a NAS system which runs on Raspberry Pi OS or Debian 11. It supports Telnet FTP and Early DOS / Windows ( 9X /200/ XP) file sharing. For DOS is has a special disk server called EtherDFS . This only requires an ethernet card and a packet driver on the DOS side. The system called RetroNAS is built for all sorts of old computers and even gaming consoles. I may try iy in Virtualbox with a virtual FreeDos machine . The protocols used by DOS and older Windows networking are not secure. backups and care in choosing which sites you visit is more important than usual. for such systems. Used properly RetroNAS and FreeDos are great.
How it is with compatibility of DOS games, in comparation to MS-DOS. Does it run ALL games same good as MS-DOS? Is it faster, slower, or exact same speed as under MS-DOS?
FreeDOS is very compatible. I haven't had much in the way of compatibility issues. Most games work as you'd expect them to for an average 90s era DOS PC. So if you expect Doom 2 and Tomb Raider to work, you are good to go. Any speed aspects are purely down to the hardware (or virtual hardware) you run it on. No different to MS-DOS in that regard. If you need to run software that only works on slow machines, then best to use a slow-down utility like Mo-Slow
@@AlsGeekLab Thank you for your reply. Yes, I'm thinking about it to installing it to 486 and Pentium 1 class machine. I want to try also dual boot with Windows 95/98SE, if it will be better, than built-in "exit to DOS". Also would like to have bootmenu, so I dont have to enter to Win98 first.
@@AlsGeekLab Would you mind, to explain it, why, at least with few short sentences? Lets say, I'm already quit Win98SE to DOS. And have lots of programs already installed. Why it is better?
@@warrax111 with FreeDOS you get lots of handy utilities straight out of the box, DOS 7 was a stripped down DOS. The best version of MS-DOS was 6.22. PC-DOS 7/2000 is also apparently really good (lesser memory footprint I believe). The only reason I'd use win9x DOS is if you need to use a disk that is bigger than 2gb and LFN, because FAT32 came with that. FreeDOS supports both LFN and FAT32, has lots of great tools, is fast and free. So there's no reason to use 9x unless you want windows 9x
Freedos matured like nice wine, I remember playing with it ten years ago.
Just installed this on an old Prolinea 486 myself. Hadn't used it for 10 or 15 years. It's gotten a heck of a lot better. We'll see if it retains compatibility with old DOS games, but so far so good.
I have (almost) the same ProLinea. It's messy and it is in need of a project too! Look out for that on my channel!
thanks this worked on my old 2008 hp notebook and runs great! they fixed it you can know install all the packages with out moving them to the main drive.
That's great to hear! if you can think of any other vids you'd like to see from me, let me know!
Thank you. I did see a large number there approaching a gigabyte and didn't know how much more a person might want to load. I am going to use 4 gigabytes instead of 32 (my only choices).
How can i make sound work on dosgames with freedos? Does it work on integrated semi-modern audio chips?
First of all nice video. Thank you. It left with a couple of questions (1) what sizes of USB drives do you need for installation and portable (2) what is the safest way to give this a separate partition on a drive especially if you don't want any conflicts with a linux distro partition and boot.
FreeDOS is tiny, so even a 1gb stick is fine if I recall ok. I'd use gparted or ranish partition editor to resize the partitions you have at present and create a new DOS partition before installing FreeDOS, then boot Linux from USB and reinstall grub2 with the option to boot FreeDOS from grub2 rather than MBR
thanks for this video
so i did everything before 11:11. and i go to fdimples and for some reason the packages arent there. can you help?
Make sure you xcopied into the correct dir. Boot back to usb and look in the dir again to check all the files are in the equivalent folder on c: and d: . If not, run xcopy again
Hi, I followed the same method but FreeDOS always tells me that "Drive D: does not appear to be partitioned" after each reboot. I never see "Drive D: does not appear to be formatted."
Is it possible to change the free DOS operating system and instal windows 7?
Hey can you tell me why I am seeing "TEMP environment variable is not set" when I use fdimples!
Can use ms office,ms excel,ms word, ms powerpoint in free dose operating system? Please replay
you can use word application for DOS. you can run windows 3.1 on freedos and run excel, PowerPoint and word for windows 3.1 too.
@@AlsGeekLab
Thanku😊
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Is it possible to change the free DOS operating system and instal windows 7?
@@akhilraj8577 what's the point? DOS is DOS, windows 7 is a very different beast. You can dual boot them if you like with a boot manager.
Folks there is a NAS system which runs on Raspberry Pi OS or Debian 11. It supports Telnet FTP and Early DOS / Windows ( 9X /200/ XP) file sharing. For DOS is has a special disk server called EtherDFS . This only requires an ethernet card and a packet driver on the DOS side. The system called RetroNAS is built for all sorts of old computers and even gaming consoles. I may try iy in Virtualbox with a virtual FreeDos machine . The protocols used by DOS and older Windows networking are not secure. backups and care in choosing which sites you visit is more important than usual. for such systems. Used properly RetroNAS and FreeDos are great.
Thanks but can you make video about how to add GUI on Freedos?
You can install freegem.or similar. A few xom with sdimples if I recall correctly
@@AlsGeekLab Thanks
can i use it like kali linux and use it to code.(python at the moment).
Thank you for sharing, now i need to buy some old PC :-)
the beauty of FreeDOS is you don't need to even have an old PC to use it. you can use a modern one and simply dual boot your operating systems.
@@AlsGeekLab But with Efi Intel dropped to support Free Dos :(
It's not the same experience..
@@AlsGeekLabHi. Did you know if it's possible to dualboot FreeDOS and Windows 2000?
thank you so much
Glad you found it useful ☺️
I use free dos with windows 3.1 on my old pc
How it is with compatibility of DOS games, in comparation to MS-DOS. Does it run ALL games same good as MS-DOS? Is it faster, slower, or exact same speed as under MS-DOS?
FreeDOS is very compatible. I haven't had much in the way of compatibility issues. Most games work as you'd expect them to for an average 90s era DOS PC. So if you expect Doom 2 and Tomb Raider to work, you are good to go. Any speed aspects are purely down to the hardware (or virtual hardware) you run it on. No different to MS-DOS in that regard. If you need to run software that only works on slow machines, then best to use a slow-down utility like Mo-Slow
@@AlsGeekLab Thank you for your reply. Yes, I'm thinking about it to installing it to 486 and Pentium 1 class machine. I want to try also dual boot with Windows 95/98SE, if it will be better, than built-in "exit to DOS". Also would like to have bootmenu, so I dont have to enter to Win98 first.
@@warrax111 it is definitely better than DOS 7.x from win 9x
@@AlsGeekLab Would you mind, to explain it, why, at least with few short sentences?
Lets say, I'm already quit Win98SE to DOS. And have lots of programs already installed. Why it is better?
@@warrax111 with FreeDOS you get lots of handy utilities straight out of the box, DOS 7 was a stripped down DOS. The best version of MS-DOS was 6.22. PC-DOS 7/2000 is also apparently really good (lesser memory footprint I believe). The only reason I'd use win9x DOS is if you need to use a disk that is bigger than 2gb and LFN, because FAT32 came with that. FreeDOS supports both LFN and FAT32, has lots of great tools, is fast and free. So there's no reason to use 9x unless you want windows 9x
is freedos able to run windows 3.1?
Yes it is!
Nice video. Sometimes I wasn't able to hear your voice and the transition music was somewhat loud though
hi bro did your data losted?
does it have chkdsk ???
Yep
great video but the music is too loud and his voice too quiet
I installed it on a 2012 laptop
Nice video
Thanks! Appreciate it!
freeDOS just released version 1.3
I have 5 second hand laptops for myself.