Hi Chris, > I've been following FreeDOS on and off for a while, thinking it would > be fun to write a version of InterLNK in my non-existent free time. > Alas, it will have to wait.
Good idea! Original interlnk did the following: A driver on the server side kept more or less the whole server busy, and transferred raw disk sectors to/from the client. The client driver behaves as any disk or ramdisk driver, but communicates with the server instead of using ram or a local disk for storage. There is also the filemaven freeware file mgr which has file transfer functionality but which does not create a DOS drive letter. Instead, you just use the file mgr to transfer the files :-). Last but not least, a FTP style Samba command line client exists for DOS. It is a DJGPP DOS port of the Linux smbclient tool. > My current project is to use FreeDOS to get a minimal Ubuntu > installation on my ancient ThinkPad 750P: 5GB disk, 36MB RAM Pretty small RAM-wise :-). But you could run Linux 2.2 based distros on 12 to 32 MB RAM more or less. Dunno if you have a chance with a modern but light Xubuntu ;-). > make a FreeDOS boot floppy with card and socket services and > a driver for my PCCard SD card reader [and then loadlin/linld] Sounds okay but you could also boot from a floppy Linux distro or a DOS network floppy and then download the file via network... I think SD readers are not really trivial to support, as they are less standardized than PCMCIA/CF or USB storage...? Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
