At 10:35 PM 3/17/2004 +0000, you wrote: >On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Michael Devore wrote: > >> I suppose I could break up the ZIP to floppy sized units, but I'm not >> real thrilled about trying it. I'd very much rather get the CD problem >> fixed. > >don't you have an old ISA network card you can put in the DOS machine? >Then you could copy via a small network.
Actually the old DOS machine used to be a Linux Internet connection server once upon a time and has two NICs which, judging by the green light, still has one working. Problem is, last I looked, DOS networking to a LAN was one of the blackest voodoo arts, with a great deal of manual setup and intervention. I didn't feel like killing the good part of a day setting things up to talk to my LAN, then trying to get past the W2K and WinXP permissions, just to share a drive with no guarantee of success. Particularly since a good CD read access from FreeDOS would avoid the whole mess. However, inspired by your Linux+ftp remarks, I just looked over latest Knoppix and seems to have a simple way to make DOS disk storage ftp'able with universal IP access. So I think I'll try that, since security isn't a requirement. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
