Re: [Freedos-user] vmware and dos drivers

2012-09-21 Thread Bret Johnson
which you could then send to a network printer from Windows. Dave -Original Message- From: George Brooks truckeetr...@yahoo.com To: Eric Auer e.a...@jpberlin.de; freedos-user freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Thu, Sep 20, 2012 9:55 pm Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] vmware

Re: [Freedos-user] vmware and dos drivers

2012-09-20 Thread George Brooks
The adventure continues... I used to think I knew DOS, etc., having gotten started with PCs in the 80s.  Even built a Novell network for a small college by trial and error plus occasional reading of manuals. But all that must have leaked out of this aging brain. The networkbook65.iso failed

Re: [Freedos-user] vmware and dos drivers

2012-09-20 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! Here are some network boot disk images: http://veder.com/nwdsk/ http://www.netbootdisk.com/download.htm http://www.nu2.nu/bootdisk/ Somehow they seem not linked on http://www.freedos.org/links/ but that page also is shorter than I had remembered (with many ... now?) The

Re: [Freedos-user] vmware and dos drivers

2012-09-20 Thread George Brooks
Eric, Greatly appreciate your assistance. Maybe I'm misunderstanding the use of boot disk images.  To me, this says something.iso for a CD boot image or otherthing.ima (VMWare says otherthing.flp) for a floppy disk image.  The way I read netbootdisk.com, when its floppy is used to boot a

Re: [Freedos-user] vmware and dos drivers

2012-09-20 Thread George Brooks
Well, I've reached the conclusion that I can't get there from here.  Even with a seemingly bootable floppy image (using FreeDOS to format the VMWare Player blank floppy image specified in the vm's setting then copying netbootdisk.com's files to that floppy) I get stuck.  Boot hangs at the line

Re: [Freedos-user] vmware and dos drivers

2012-09-20 Thread cordata02
-Original Message- From: George Brooks truckeetr...@yahoo.com To: Eric Auer e.a...@jpberlin.de; freedos-user freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Thu, Sep 20, 2012 9:55 pm Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] vmware and dos drivers Well, I've reached the conclusion that I can't get