Re: [Freedos-user] MetaDOS floppy distro (was: Re: How do you transfer files to your FreeDOS machine)

2014-12-05 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 2:42 PM, Louis Santillan lpsan...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 11:54 AM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: It seems the VirtualBox download (125 MB .ZIP) comes as a microscopic .vbox meta file and the main .vdi is roughly 300 MB. Yet it must be some

Re: [Freedos-user] MetaDOS floppy distro (was: Re: How do you transfer files to your FreeDOS machine)

2014-11-23 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 3:29 PM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: It seems that other recent OSes also come as emulator images. In particular, I'm thinking of ReactOS 0.3.17. So it's obviously not that unpopular an idea. It certainly makes it easier to test things out.

Re: [Freedos-user] MetaDOS floppy distro (was: Re: How do you transfer files to your FreeDOS machine)

2014-11-23 Thread Louis Santillan
On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 11:54 AM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: It seems the VirtualBox download (125 MB .ZIP) comes as a microscopic .vbox meta file and the main .vdi is roughly 300 MB. Yet it must be some kind of dynamically-sized image as VBox itself seems to indicate it's 40 GB. It's a

Re: [Freedos-user] MetaDOS floppy distro (was: Re: How do you transfer files to your FreeDOS machine)

2014-11-06 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, Just for comparison On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Rugxulo rugx...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/unofficial/metados/ Just for comparison, both FreeBSD (qcow, vhd, vmdk) and Haiku (vmdk) have virtual hard disk images

Re: [Freedos-user] MetaDOS floppy distro (was: Re: How do you transfer files to your FreeDOS machine)

2014-10-01 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 3:50 PM, Christian Imhorst christian.imho...@gmail.com wrote: thank you very much for sharing METADOS. To me it looks very interesting and I like the idea of having a FreeDOS live distro, too. VMDK files are nice but I am using Qemu mainly. Therfore I was

Re: [Freedos-user] MetaDOS floppy distro (was: Re: How do you transfer files to your FreeDOS machine)

2014-09-30 Thread Christian Imhorst
Hi, thank you very much for sharing METADOS. To me it looks very interesting and I like the idea of having a FreeDOS live distro, too. VMDK files are nice but I am using Qemu mainly. Therfore I was delighted that METADOS is an IMG file. ;-) To complement your METADOS.TXT I use the PCNET driver

[Freedos-user] MetaDOS floppy distro (was: Re: How do you transfer files to your FreeDOS machine)

2014-09-27 Thread Rugxulo
Hi again, Okay, I finally uploaded this (and nobody complained, so I guess it's safe to announce). Just to be clear: it exists, it's very small, it has full sources, it's publicly available. http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/unofficial/metados/ To me, I