I've never used DSL, but I have used BusyBox back in my Android dev days. So:
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On Tuesday, September 29, 2020 12:33 PM, Jason Pittman
<jason.pitt...@jasonpittman.com> wrote:
> I know nothing about BusyBox, so I'm going to ask a dumb question. Does DSL
> allow you to, say, install apt (or another package manager), gcc, make, etc.,
> or does it only allow you to run the common linux commands shown on the
> BusyBox website?
>
> (And on a side note, has anyone actually gotten it to work? I'd already know
> the answer to my question above if I could get it to do something other than
> crash the VM when I run "dsl.com")
>
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> On Wednesday, September 23, 2020 11:33 AM, Jim Hall <jh...@freedos.org> wrote:
>
>> After poking around the GitHub project, this is actually a very clever
>> thing. Looks like he's using VM86 mode (requires '386 or later CPU) to
>> instantiate a dedicated Linux kernel with BusyBox to run the Linux commands.
>> This is not bringing up a full Linux installation in a VM - this is only the
>> kernel + BusyBox. So that keeps it small.
>>
>> Now, what would you *do* with this? Why would you need DSL under FreeDOS?
>> I'm not sure. But it's a neat idea that is well done. Good job!
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 10:41 AM Louis Santillan <lpsan...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> The author freely admits running DOS & Linux side-by-side this way is
>>> a fragile coordination [0]. I doubt that redirection would work as
>>> one might desire. The recently updated ascii demo [1] shows calling
>>> various DOS and Linux commands, and, shows creating a text file with
>>> `dsl vi hello.txt` and then later opening that same file with `edit
>>> hello.txt`. Interestingly, the file appears written to the filesystem
>>> as `HELLO.TXT`, as MS-DOS 6.22 is case insensitive (w/o a LFN driver).
>>> I wonder what would happen if an LFN driver was added to the mix.
>>>
>>> [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24556801
>>> [1]
>>> https://camo.githubusercontent.com/deb8f6b6cc59686ba91a3758daeb047fccdf05dd/68747470733a2f2f636861726c69652e73752f7265636f7264696e672d61633565396166353936613931382e676966
>>>
>>> On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 4:39 AM Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi everybody,
>>>>
>>>> I would predict doslinux to be a variant of a Linux loader,
>>>> so my questions here are: Can Linux safely write to the DOS
>>>> partition while running? What are the limitations to return
>>>> to DOS after using Linux? Is it possible to switch between
>>>> DOS and Linux without having to reboot Linux each time? Are
>>>> direct interactions possible, e.g. run single apps and pipe
>>>> their output from Linux to DOS or from DOS to Linux?
>>>>
>>>> As Jim writes about modifications to make doslinux work with
>>>> FreeDOS, it can probably do more than just load Linux, but I
>>>> would be happy to read more about the details here on the list.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks :-) Eric
>>>>
>>>>
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