Re: [Freedos-user] EtherDFS - a network drive for DOS

2017-02-02 Thread Mateusz Viste
On Thu, 02 Feb 2017 19:09:28 +0100, Tom Ehlert wrote: > may I suggest to use UDP/IP instead of raw packets? Hi Tom, It's a more common suggestion than you might think :) That's why I covered this already in the documentation:

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS images for VirtualBox

2017-02-02 Thread Eric Auer
Hi everybody, I agree with Ralf - it is not intuitive that a non-network operating system installs a network, even if it is only for FTP file exchange. I think those who do want to use network tools to communicate between host OS and a virtual PC with FreeDOS inside will be able to deliberately

Re: [Freedos-user] EtherDFS - a network drive for DOS

2017-02-02 Thread Tom Ehlert
Mateusz, really cool. unfortunately I don't have a linux machine around, so testing must wait. may I suggest to use UDP/IP instead of raw packets? UDP/IP requires just a few bytes set up in the right way, and the calculation of the IP checksum; shouldn't be too much work. this would be much

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS images for VirtualBox

2017-02-02 Thread Ralf Quint
On 2/2/2017 1:24 AM, Ulrich Hansen wrote: > Hmm. You’ve got a point. The thing is: FTPSRV was for some years the > fastest way of getting files in and out of the FreeDOS guest. So I > considered it something most people would want, also in the „normal“ > image without additional networking

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS images for VirtualBox

2017-02-02 Thread Ulrich Hansen
> Am 02.02.2017 um 08:57 schrieb Ralf Quint : > Well,... >> Not Found >> Oh, sorry. I forgot to change one of the two links there. Thanks!! I repaired it. > On the side for the version supposedly without network, you are talking an > awful lot about the networking stuff

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS images for VirtualBox

2017-02-02 Thread Ralf Quint
On 2/1/2017 9:21 AM, Ulrich Hansen wrote: > I also had time to update my VirtualBox images of FreeDOS. So if > anybody liked these images in the past: Here are the new ones: :-) > > https://www.lazybrowndog.net/freedos/virtualbox/ And to add to my last email, the supposedly non-network image