Hi, On 1/12/11, Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de> wrote: > > 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)...
Not sure, I think directly using USB from inside VirtualBox is experimental (read: probably buggy) and not supported in the OSE version. (Sorry to be such a pessimist.) > 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. Forgot about that, yeah it sometimes works (with bugs), but it does also mean you can't hotplug / swap at runtime. > 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. I do know that VirtualBox has some issues with DOS (e.g. no SB support), so normally I don't use DOS there. Not sure if they fixed some of them (EMM386 conflict) though one of the recent ones claims to. Probably unchecking VT-X in the config helps but is slower. > 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. Right, did I accidentally say MS SHARE? I meant "NET SHARE" or whatever the syntax is. > In DOSEMU things are usually easy, but that is only > available for Linux. Not sure about BSD Unixes such > as MacOS in that context. *BSD has doscmd but I haven't tried it (yet), probably very buggy and weak as it's quite old and unmaintained. I know they claim DOSBox and VirtualBox both work on BSD. There are even still others (pcxt, pcemu) untested by me. But yeah, DOSEMU is Linux only, but you can (I think?) boot Ubuntu off Macs nowadays. > There are floppy images like NWDSK (veder.com?) which > autodetect many network chipsets. Call me a skeptic, but things like that almost never work (for me). Others smarter than me seem to have better luck, though (e.g. BTTR crowd). P.S. The obvious question is, "What application(s) are you trying to run on FreeDOS?" It's easier when we know the goal to make concrete suggestions. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
