I've documented my process for getting doslinux working on real
hardware [0]. Not too bad.
`ftpget`, `wget`, and `httpd` applets are included [1] in busybox. I
think with a little more work, static binary versions of many apps
would work. Shouldn't be that hard to statically build in the
On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 12:53 PM Jason Pittman
wrote:
>
> I know nothing about BusyBox, so I'm going to ask a dumb question. Does DSL
> allow you to, say, install apt (or another package manager), gcc, make, etc.,
> or does it only allow you to run the common linux commands shown on the
>
I've never used DSL, but I have used BusyBox back in my Android dev days. So:
Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email.
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐
On Tuesday, September 29, 2020 12:33 PM, Jason Pittman
wrote:
> I know nothing about BusyBox, so I'm going to ask a dumb
"Does DSL allow you to, say, install apt (or another package manager), gcc,
make, etc.,"
No.
"or does it only allow you to run the common linux commands shown on the
BusyBox website?"
Yes.
Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email.
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐
On
I know nothing about BusyBox, so I'm going to ask a dumb question. Does DSL
allow you to, say, install apt (or another package manager), gcc, make, etc.,
or does it only allow you to run the common linux commands shown on the BusyBox
website?
(And on a side note, has anyone actually gotten it
From: Thomas Mueller
Sent: Thursday, 24 September 2020 9:04 AM
To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Run Linux & Linux binaries on DOS
I remember, from DR-DOS website (drdos.com to the best of my memory), in their
later years DR-DOS c
On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 7:35 PM Jim Hall wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 6:06 PM Thomas Mueller wrote:
>>
>> [..]
>> I remember there was a DR-DOS 8 that used GPL parts from FreeDOS, but that
>> had to be withdrawn from the market due to legal challenges, using
>> open-source GPL parts in a
On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 6:06 PM Thomas Mueller wrote:
> [..]
> I remember there was a DR-DOS 8 that used GPL parts from FreeDOS, but that
> had to be withdrawn from the market due to legal challenges, using
> open-source GPL parts in a closed-source system.
>
>
Yes, I was one of the folks who
I remember, from DR-DOS website (drdos.com to the best of my memory), in their
later years DR-DOS could load Linux and come back to DR-DOS after the user
exited from Linux.
As far as I could see, it was not possible to run DOS and Linux software
concurrently.
I never tried that, believe
On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 11:41 AM Louis Santillan wrote:
>
> The author freely admits running DOS & Linux side-by-side this way is
> a fragile coordination [0]. I doubt that redirection would work as
> one might desire. The recently updated ascii demo [1] shows calling
> various DOS and Linux
After poking around the GitHub project, this is actually a very clever
thing. Looks like he's using VM86 mode (requires '386 or later CPU) to
instantiate a dedicated Linux kernel with BusyBox to run the Linux
commands. This is not bringing up a full Linux installation in a VM - this
is only the
The author freely admits running DOS & Linux side-by-side this way is
a fragile coordination [0]. I doubt that redirection would work as
one might desire. The recently updated ascii demo [1] shows calling
various DOS and Linux commands, and, shows creating a text file with
`dsl vi hello.txt` and
Hi everybody,
I would predict doslinux to be a variant of a Linux loader,
so my questions here are: Can Linux safely write to the DOS
partition while running? What are the limitations to return
to DOS after using Linux? Is it possible to switch between
DOS and Linux without having to reboot
If "doslinux" can boot enough of Linux to enable drivers or access to
devices or software that FreeDOS or BIOS has no interfaces for (USB,
NVMe, SMP, NFS, FUSE, newer NICs such as 1GbE+ or WiFI networking), I
think it makes for some interesting possibilities. And, it
potentially opens up FreeDOS
I had a brief twitter conversation with him when he originally announced it
on twitter. The first announcement used MS-DOS, but he was able to get this
to work with FreeDOS too.
Once he confirmed it worked with FreeDOS, I posted a tweet on it:
Ohand it runs in UnReal Mode?!?! [0][1] Super interesting.
[0] https://github.com/charliesome/doslinux/blob/master/doslinux.asm#L239-L247
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreal_mode
On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 1:24 PM Louis Santillan wrote:
>
> In case you missed it, DOS Subsystem for Linux
In case you missed it, DOS Subsystem for Linux [0][1] was announced on
HackerNews. Think of it something like WINE, or, something like
DPMILD32/HXRT/HXGUI Japeth's HX DOS Extender, but for Linux on top of
DOS. A couple interesting things to note: 1) It needs to run w/o XMS
[2], 2) It seems to
17 matches
Mail list logo
