Hi! > Maybe this is also a dumb question but is it possible to run > FreeDos on a different File System? like on of the linux ones > and still be able to run/use most dos programs?
Yes, the network drive interface and similar are used not only for network drives but also for CD/DVD filesystems for example... You can also have "ftp client style" access to other filesystems, examples are LTOOLS for ext2fs and SMBCLIENT for Samba drives / Windows shares and FileMaven for something similar to INTERLNK / INTERSVR / LapLink :-) Most apps are happy with "networkish" drives but of course you cannot boot from such drives. You can boot from any filesystem for which you have a boot loader which can put the kernel into RAM and jump to it... HOWEVER, the kernel then will be unable to load config sys and whatever driver you need for the "different filesystem" from anything but normal FAT. Possible solutions are having a tiny FAT disk with the drivers, a FAT bootable ramdisk such as MEMDISK (of SYSLINUX, bootable with any Linux boot loader) with the drivers, a mapped disk image with the drivers (which seems to be possible with GRUB4DOS) or last but not least some sort of driver for the "different filesystem" inside the kernel itself. The latter can be a SIMPLIFIED driver, for example "ISO9660 but only via ElTorito (BIOS CD / DVD boot) and only read-only files in the root directory" :-) Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
