I have only superficially explored it all, but apparently you can only mount entire VMDK disks, and probably (reading the /?) you can mount its separate partitions. But I guess once you mount some partition you cannot use it to boot VMWare, unless you have umounted everything.
Aitor 2008/9/4, Alain M. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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 > >> [email protected] > >> 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 > > [email protected] > > 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 > [email protected] > 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 [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
