Re: [Freedos-user] Wrap up of FreeDOS articles

2021-07-14 Thread Jim Hall
> On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 10:15:47AM -0500, Jim Hall wrote: > > > I also get a lot of "I need help" emails, since my email address is on > > the website. And a lot of people email me with questions about how to > > use zip files. On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 3:05 PM ZB wrote: > > Having the whole

Re: [Freedos-user] Wrap up of FreeDOS articles

2021-07-14 Thread ZB
On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 10:15:47AM -0500, Jim Hall wrote: > I also get a lot of "I need help" emails, since my email address is on > the website. And a lot of people email me with questions about how to > use zip files. Having the whole Internet at their disposal -- along with tools like Google,

Re: [Freedos-user] Shared Folders not allowed in VirtualBox FreeDOS?

2021-07-14 Thread Jim Hall
I assume you want to access your USB flash drive and Windows partition so you can share files between them? My recommendation is to keep it simple. If you don't need to share files "live" then don't create a complicated solution. For example: If you need to download a file (zipped program or

Re: [Freedos-user] Wrap up of FreeDOS articles

2021-07-14 Thread Jim Hall
> On Sat, Jul 03, 2021 at 10:56:57AM -0500, Jim Hall wrote: > > > Hi everyone! > > > > I hope you enjoyed the month-long article series on Opensource.com, > > about FreeDOS. Here are the articles that ran this week, as June > > wrapped up: > > > > "How to archive files on FreeDOS" (Zip and Unzip)

Re: [Freedos-user] Fwd: Shared Folders not allowed in VirtualBox FreeDOS?

2021-07-14 Thread Jim Hall
On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 8:49 AM Eric Auer wrote: >[..] > For VirtualBox and similar, you could for example use a floppy > disk image and configure mtools to access it (you get commands > such as mcopy or mdir for Linux with it) and make sure to NOT > have VirtualBox open at the moment when you

[Freedos-user] Fwd: Shared Folders not allowed in VirtualBox FreeDOS?

2021-07-14 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! If you want to share directories between DOS and Linux easily, you could use DOSEMU2 (or DOSBOX) which are both optimized for DOS. However, they are no neutral simulations of hardware for the same reason. For example you will have to load specific DOSEMU2 drivers to use some features. They

Re: [Freedos-user] Wrap up of FreeDOS articles

2021-07-14 Thread Michał Dec
tar with xz rulz W dniu 14.07.2021 o 15:22, ZB pisze: On Sat, Jul 03, 2021 at 10:56:57AM -0500, Jim Hall wrote: Hi everyone! I hope you enjoyed the month-long article series on Opensource.com, about FreeDOS. Here are the articles that ran this week, as June wrapped up: "How to archive files

Re: [Freedos-user] Shared Folders not allowed in VirtualBox FreeDOS?

2021-07-14 Thread Liam Proven
On Wed, 14 Jul 2021 at 15:28, Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user wrote: > > The short answer is no. Well, yes, agreed. > The long(er) answer is that VirtualBox makes available a specific programming > interface for the Shared Folders feature which provides both a 64-bit and > 32-bit entry

Re: [Freedos-user] Shared Folders not allowed in VirtualBox FreeDOS?

2021-07-14 Thread Liam Proven
On Wed, 14 Jul 2021 at 15:05, kaye n wrote: > > Hello Friends > > My host is a linux OS. I think I have successfully installed FreeDOS in > VirtualBox. > > When the virtual FreeDOS is running, I want to be able to access my USB flash > drive as well as a Windows partition on the physical hard

Re: [Freedos-user] Shared Folders not allowed in VirtualBox FreeDOS?

2021-07-14 Thread Mercury Thirteen via Freedos-user
Since I run a similar setup (Linux Mint with VirtualBox), I'll take this one. :) The short answer is no. The long(er) answer is that VirtualBox makes available a specific programming interface for the Shared Folders feature which provides both a 64-bit and 32-bit entry point for the guest OS -

Re: [Freedos-user] Wrap up of FreeDOS articles

2021-07-14 Thread ZB
On Sat, Jul 03, 2021 at 10:56:57AM -0500, Jim Hall wrote: > Hi everyone! > > I hope you enjoyed the month-long article series on Opensource.com, > about FreeDOS. Here are the articles that ran this week, as June > wrapped up: > > "How to archive files on FreeDOS" (Zip and Unzip) >

[Freedos-user] Shared Folders not allowed in VirtualBox FreeDOS?

2021-07-14 Thread kaye n
Hello Friends My host is a linux OS. I think I have successfully installed FreeDOS in VirtualBox. When the virtual FreeDOS is running, I want to be able to access my USB flash drive as well as a Windows partition on the physical hard drive. I assume this is not possible? Thank you for your