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Old NX-DOS boot help request (Miscellaneous)

posted by nico7550, 18.07.2023, 23:47

Hi,

I like to test old kernel and I want to try NX-DOS, if someone can take a little time to have a look please?

It's from 2015 and the site is shutdown for some years...
https://web.archive.org/web/20150814042113/https://sourceforge.net/projects/nxdos/

But I cannot manage to build a valid boot disk.
First the batch file included has a naming error for the included format (exe instaed of com) tools but once build it cannot boot.

I notice that the boot segment refer to msdos.sys (!) and I cannot manage to fix it (blank msdos.sys file or hex modify the boot file didn't help).

Here is a mirror on uptobox of the latest binary (but I cannot remenber where I found it !)
nxdos-bin-i486-0.9.9.8.5.zip

The olde site show 2 IMG files but I cannot find them anywhere...
nxdos-11082012.img
nxdos-freedos-mod-0.9.6.1-img-i386-20080920.IMG

Thanks for your help

Nico

Complete thread:

• Old NX-DOS boot help request - nico7550, 18.07.2023, 23:47
  • Old NX-DOS boot help request - glennmcc, 19.07.2023, 20:07
  • Old NX-DOS boot help request - Oso2k, 20.07.2023, 05:10
  • Old NX-DOS boot help request - jadoxa, 20.07.2023, 07:10
    • Old NX-DOS boot help request - nico7550, 20.07.2023, 07:24
      • Old NX-DOS boot help request - Oso2k, 25.07.2023, 04:05
        • Old NX-DOS boot help request - nico7550, 26.07.2023, 13:02
          • Old NX-DOS boot help request - nico7550, 26.07.2023, 21:03
            • Old NX-DOS boot help request - CandyMan, 01.08.2023, 10:27
              • Old NX-DOS boot help request - nico7550, 01.08.2023, 22:54
                • Old NX-DOS boot help request - CandyMan, 02.08.2023, 12:12
                  • Old NX-DOS boot help request - nico7550, 02.08.2023, 12:55