Hi, I have a mix of completely working solutions: 1) for what I see from your programs, you should have a FreeDOS booting partition. This wil work on any modern CPU (I have lots of them that I give support), just don't buy an ASUS MoBo, it is too buggy. This should be the first primary partition with FAT32. For it to boot it needs do be active, I use Grub to change that on the fly. Have another estented fat32 partition for data.
2) Use virtual machine, it is very easy and smooth. I recomend: for all uses VirtualBox, but for Dos grahics VirtualPC is running just a little better. VMware is nice too, just more bulky. The fastest the machine, the more RAM the better. Access to host usualy via network (packet drivers are ok) 3) In Linux, use Dosemu. 99.9% of program work fine including LFN, and desktop integration is the best of all for DOS. Don't use physical partitions or images, no need and too complicated and unsafe. 4) DosBox is said to be nice for exceptional cases, no network. Said to have shared folders. Never used but it is in my plans I use 1 to 3 regularly. You should have no problems with a 64 bit machine. MS-DOS 6.22 has some problems, but the latest stable FreeDOS is working fine in all new machines, including SATA2 drives. Just avois Asus. I will be glad to help, just ask here. Alain Em 08-07-2010 07:52, Jim Michaels escreveu: > does anyone have a good safe config for doslfn? I don't want to have to > read through the whole manual. but I will if I have to. > > also, my development files are a mix of windows and dos files. > it would be best if I had regular easy file access to my ntfs without > formatting it. I have a hard time seeing how a virtual machine is going > to do that with DOS. do I use vmware and partition out a regular fat32 > filesystem and format that with freedos > > does anybody have a *good* working solution? > > my situation is, my builds have about 30 programs on 3-5 different > platforms (dos 32-bit, windows 32-bit, windows 64-bit, sometimes > auto-it3 32-bit and auto-it3 64-bit), and I prefer if possible to build > all in one place. I can easily make a batch file to build all the DOS > stuff, but the length of the command-line (directory) is probably going > to kill the deal with DOS unless I can get DOSLFN working well. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
