Re: [Freedos-user] Simple guide for networking FreeDOS 1.2 in a VirtualBox VM ?

2016-12-25 Thread Abe Mishler
Bill, Earlier this summer, one of the many helpful people here pointed out that the VHD format can be mounted directly by Windows. You can probably find a guide for doing something similar on Linux with whatever format you have chosen. The VM of course needs to be off while mounted by the

Re: [Freedos-user] Simple guide for networking FreeDOS 1.2 in a VirtualBox VM ?

2016-12-25 Thread regan
Hello Bill, Using Freedos 1.2 and Virtual box Version 5.1.10 r112026 (Qt5.6.2) When I installed Freedos, I installed the standard CD image, I got a second disk path D: I did this: cd C:\fdos\bin dir D:\net C: rem foreach package in the directory listing I did (each package) becomes each zip

Re: [Freedos-user] Simple guide for networking FreeDOS 1.2 in a VirtualBox VM ?

2016-12-25 Thread Jerome Shidel
> On Dec 25, 2016, at 4:57 PM, William Dudley wrote: > > Is there a simple guide for networking FreeDOS 1.2 in a VirtualBox VM ? No guide needed under VirtualBox Install the FDNET package and reboot. If you downloaded a CD version and did a FULL (not BASE) install, just:

[Freedos-user] Simple guide for networking FreeDOS 1.2 in a VirtualBox VM ?

2016-12-25 Thread William Dudley
Is there a simple guide for networking FreeDOS 1.2 in a VirtualBox VM ? 1.2 is too new for there to be anything in the mailing list archives on this. I never got networking going in the previous FreeDOS release. Getting files in and out (especially out) of the VM is like pulling teeth. Thanks,

[Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.2 official release!

2016-12-25 Thread Jim Hall
I am proud to announce the release of FreeDOS 1.2! You can download it from our website at www.freedos.org. The latest official FreeDOS distribution is the result of the hard work from many people. Thanks to everyone in the FreeDOS Project for their work towards this new release! There are too