Eric Auer-3 wrote:
>
>
>
>> All you need is download the WatTCP package, modify the watttcp.cfg
>> file to your needs (IP, subnet mask, routing, etc..), and put
>> this file somewhere intoyour PATH. Then, you will have to load a
>> packet driver compatible with your (virtual) NIC. I am pretty sure
>> that VMware has some generic emulation for NE2000 cards, so it
>> shouldn't be a problem.
>
> You do not need WATTCP to use the network, only if you want to write
> network software yourself then you would need WATTCP or WATT32. The
> existing software which uses network already has WATTCP or similar
> libraries built-in anyway :-).
>
> Still you would need a WATTCP config file. Minimal wattcp.cfg:
>
> my_ip = dhcp
> netmask = 255.255.255.0
> gateway = 0.0.0.0
> domain_list = your.domain.com
> # domain, gateway, ip, nameserver will be set via DHCP
>
> Without using DHCP your wattcp.cfg can be for example:
>
> my_ip = 192.168.1.5
> netmask = 255.255.255.0
> gateway = 192.168.1.1
> domain_list = dummy.com
> nameserver = 192.168.1.1
>
> You also need in your autoexec:
>
> SET WATTCP.CFG=THEdirectoryWHEREyourWATTTCP.CFGfileIS
>
>> Once you do all that, you will be able to download SCP2DOS,
>> and use it. Note, that having a working network installation
>> will allow you also to update automagically your FreeDOS
>> system using FDUPDATE ;-)
>
> Or, maybe easier, just copy files to your DOS partition.
> Most operating systems understand the FAT filesystem :-)
>
> Eric
>
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Wow. It was easier than I thought and now I have a network running on
freedos. I can even connect to the web through arachne. SSH is working on
the mac, and I can access Mac OS from freedos using ssh, but, I know this
sounds stupid, but how do I move files from the mac to freedos ?
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