Hi James, Uli, Rugxulo, happy new year everybody :-) do I understand correctly that you want to copy from MacOS to FreeDOS but both run on the same hardware, DOS running in VirtualBox? As Mac understands FAT, it might help to copy the files to any FAT drive, eg USB stick, USB harddisk or floppy, and then "connect" that to your VirtualBox (probably configuration thing which needs restarting the DOS)...
> I have a folder on my desktop on my MacBook pro that I > want to copy into freedos. I copied the folder to an > external USB floppy on my laptop. But freedos isn't > recognizing it. I was thinking that this might be a > virtualbox issue rather than freedos. Note that for normal PC BIOSes you often get USB drives recognized by having them connected before DOS boots... In that case, DOS does not need a driver as the BIOS is doing the work. In virtualbox, support might differ and if you try using DOS USB drivers there, virtualbox will have to simulate USB hardware/chipset connected to your actual USB drive, which might complicate things. There was some page by Uli Hansen about the use of various network stuff with DOS, MS network shares via MSCLIENT included as far as I remember. Again, such stuff is harder in a virtual PC than in a real PC. In particular real PCI network cards are easy. Old ISA cards and external USB cards are harder and wireless is even very hard. PCIe should be okay :-) > Is there a way to have freedos recognize files on my > hard drive? Like can I copy files from my macs hard > drive into freedos? If you run DOS in a virtual PC, this will depend on the config and abilities of that virtual PC mostly. Plus a bit on DOS drivers, if you need any at all. In DOSEMU things are usually easy, but that is only available for Linux. Not sure about BSD Unixes such as MacOS in that context. >> Nobody mentioned it yet, but I think the real problem is that the FD >> 1.0 .ISO had broken network detection. Or at least that's what I >> heard. I don't understand networking at all, and most of my hardware >> seems to always lack drivers, so I never bothered trying in FreeDOS >> (and have troubles even with more popular OSes, yuck). There are floppy images like NWDSK (veder.com?) which autodetect many network chipsets. I assume you could boot those in a virtual PC as well, even using virtual floppy drives. Or put them on USB stick or CD-R with the help of for example SYSLINUX / ISOLINUX / MEMDISK. Depends a lot on what you want to do whether networking is really what you want to use :-) Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Protect Your Site and Customers from Malware Attacks Learn about various malware tactics and how to avoid them. Understand malware threats, the impact they can have on your business, and how you can protect your company and customers by using code signing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
