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. > > -- > -- > +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ > Marco A. Achury > http://www.achury.com.ve/eudos > > > -- NEU: FreePhone 3-fach-Flat mit kostenlosem Smartphone! Jetzt informieren: http://mobile.1und1.de/?ac=OM.PW.PW003K20328T7073a ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user