The same person who asked me about how to install FreeDOS in QEMU also asked about how I copy files to/from my FreeDOS disk image, using Linux. Here's a copy of my reply, for anyone else who wants to do that:
>> I forgot to show how I access the disk image using *guestmount*. I'm running some things in my new FreeDOS 2410 virtual machine, so I'll show you using my 2409.qcow2 disk image instead. First, set up a directory where you'll access the disk image. Since I'm accessing my 2409.qcow2 disk image, I'll create a directory called 2409: $ *mkdir 2409* Now use *guestmount* to access (-a) the 2409.qcow2 disk image, using the first disk partition (called "sda1" using Linux terminology) as the mount point (-m), and mount it on the 2409 directory: $ *guestmount -a 2409.qcow2 -m /dev/sda1 2409* And that's it! You can access the 2409 directory to copy files into (or out of) your disk image. You can use the command line (like I do) or use your graphical file manager; it doesn't matter, as far as your file manager is concerned, it's just a directory. Here's an *ls* command to show that it works: $ *ls 2409* APPS COMMAND.COM <http://command.com/> DEVEL FDAUTO.BAT FDCONFIG.SYS FREEDOS KERNEL.SYS Don't forget to unmount it when you're done: $ *guestunmount 2409*
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