Hi Marco, 

thanks for your quick reply! However, your suggestion couldn't solve my problem.

Meanwhile I have found that floppy access works when FreeDos is started without 
any drivers (Option 4).

As it's just for installing some programs, I can live with that.

Cheers

Wo
 
-------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Datum: Wed, 16 May 2012 13:27:59 -0430
> Von: Marco Achury <marcoach...@gmail.com>
> An: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net
> Betreff: Re: [Freedos-user] Virtual floppy change problem with VirtualBox

> El 16/05/2012 12:03 p.m., Wolfgang Schechinger escribió:
> > Dear experts, 
> >
> > I have some floppy images I want to use with FreeDos that is running in
> a VM (VirtualBox). The images work fine with e.g. Windows in such an
> environment.
> >
> > However with the virtual FreeDos, disk changes are not recognized: Only
> the first Image that has been used after boot is show with e.g. dir, even
> when the image has been remove or replaced.
> >
> > I suppose that the problem is how to tell FreeDos that the disk has
> changed.
> >
> > Anything I could do?
> >
> > Thanks for your help!
> >
> > Wo
> >
> > PS The host system is Opensuse Linux 11.4
> 
> After, shutdown and reboot freedos, your changes appear on new sessions?
> Say you create a new text file, close VM and start it again. Your text
> file is there?
> 
> On a linux host, the VM needs permissions to write on image file.
> 
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> Marco A. Achury
> http://www.achury.com.ve/eudos
> 
> 
> 

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