And why in Blue Blazes would you want to run Linux under Windoze? That
would be like putting a Ferrari body on a Yugo! Running a DOS
environment under XP still won't give you hardware access to your ports
and you still have CW timing problems.
Oh well, Have fun, but if you want something really nice try the latest
Ubuntu Linux with the Amateur Radio Library. Smooth and stable.
73, Gerry K8GT
kb8nnu@yahoo.com wrote:
> If I may add a quicker solution to the dos problem here...
>
> MS now offers their helpful Virtual PC (2004 SP1 and 2007 beta) software for
> free . This software allows the user to to run virtual computing
> environments under an XP environments. For example, you can run a MS DOS,
> Linux, Win 95/98, under a seperate window in Windows XP. It also allows you
> to create virtual HDD and ports. Its a great utility for XP users who want
> to run DOS - based software under XP. It doesn't require any extra work to
> your hard drive and the virtual HDD may be copied to another computer via a
> simple file transfer. Something worth checking out...I like it!
>
> Here's the link to the software site:
> http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtualpc/default.mspx
>
> Good Luck!
>
> Dave
> KB8NNU
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Mark Bailey <kd4d@comcast.net>
> To: ct-user@contesting.com; TR Log Reflector <trlog@contesting.com>; CQ
> Contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>; freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net
> Sent: Friday, December 1, 2006 12:42:10 PM
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] Adding MS-DOS to a WindowsXP Computer
>
>
> Good day, everyone:
>
> I have updated my procedure and bootable CD for installing
> FreeDOS (or MSDOS) on almost any WindowsXP computer. You can
> install FreeDOS (or MSDOS) beside WindowsXP without damaging
> the WindowsXP installation - using completely free open-source
> tools.
>
> I use this capability to run Amateur Radio contest logging
> programs which are DOS-based.
>
> I did the updated procedure and cd because the free tools to
> shrink the WindowsXP installation have new versions with
> more error checking. There are several changes to the procedure
> to hopefully make it easier to read and follow.
>
> There is a FREE CD which contains everything you need to install
> FreeDOS available for download at
>
> http://johnson.tmfc.net/dos/
> Add DOS to preinstalled Windows (see left side)
>
> The PDF file of the updated procedure is also available there or
> directly from
>
> http://johnson.tmfc.net/dos/file/fdinst095.pdf
>
> (Thanks to Johnson Lam for providing the server space for this).
> The CDROM image is about 30 MiBytes. The procedure is less
> than 1 MiByte.
>
> I would appreciate feedback from anyone who uses the procedure
> so that I can improve it. All of my computers boot both WindowsXP
> and DOS! I can do this in under ten minutes - it will take
> you a bit longer the first time.
>
> Mark Bailey, KD4D
>
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