Interesting... can you use it to mount directories or only disks and/or partitions? It makes a big difference because a disk cannot be accessed by two OSes...
Alain Aitor Santamaría escreveu: > Thanks to both, I knew the DOSEMU stuff, and was new to VirtualBox!! > Incidentally, some minutes later I've found it, it is called DiskMount: > http://www.vmware.com/download/eula/diskmount_ws_v55.html > > and it is a pure commandline tool that works acceptably ok. It does > just that: mounts the disk onto a "My PC" drive letter (I haven't > tried yet how it would react to a disk with multiple partitions). You > cannot have it mounted as you run the VM, but for me it is ok, as I > just want to replace the floppy. > > Thanks again! > Aitor > > 2008/9/3, Jim Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 3:59 PM, Alain M. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Hi Aitor, >>> >>> This is not OT at all :) >>> >>> if you are using FreeDOS in VMware, there is no way of doing it. >>> Alternatives are: >>> - dosemu: it can do it very nicely >>> - use ftp from Eric Engelke, it is only 45k >>> - msclient, worst of all, but it should work. >>> >> >> I run FreeDOS under DOSEmu, and that makes it dead simple to share >> files between Linux (the host OS) and FreeDOS (guest OS). My C: drive >> is already mapped to a directory in my Linux $HOME. In >> $HOME/.dosemu/drives, my "c" is a symlink to my >> $HOME/freedos/1.0-base/ directory. You can guess what version of >> FreeDOS I have installed there. :-) >> >> Any files that FreeDOS writes to the "disk" is just a file in my >> $HOME/freedos/1.0-base/ directory. From Linux, I just go there to pick >> up the file. Makes it easy to drop off files (like the E Editor ... >> see other email) to experiment with in FreeDOS. >> >> -jh >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge >> Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes >> Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world >> http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ >> _______________________________________________ >> Freedos-devel mailing list >> Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
