Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.0 CD boot process and files

2008-01-21 Thread Ron Spruell
Eric I have more information. I put the CD I made with the ISO image file into my CD drive. It booted up to the Freedos screen asking how I wanted to run it or install it. I selected 1 to run off the CD. Then it came to the screen with 1 2 or 3 selecting EMM386 with himem and I selected 3 Then sinc

Re: [Freedos-user] Network sharing

2008-01-21 Thread Ulrich Hansen
Fabien Meghazi schrieb: > At last ! I found the correct packet driver for my network card ! Yeepee ! > I've got wattcp working ok. I can use ssh, lynx, ... Congratulations! > 1) NFS : > The best for me would be to mount a nfs share to a drive letter on my > dos station. > It would be the ideal sol

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.0 CD boot process and files

2008-01-21 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Ron, > I am going to boot from the floppy drive so what do I need to do to > boot from my floppy drive? Do I still need the CD in the CD drive? Well there is a special boot diskette for systems which cannot boot from CD. This diskette then continues booting with the CD. But the normal case w

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.0 CD boot process and files

2008-01-21 Thread Ron Spruell
As said - you cannot. If you have a diskette drive, things would be easier. But for changing the CD, you have to edit the virtual diskette on the CD, because the "normal CD" part of the CD cannot be used before DOS CD drivers like SHSUCDX (similar to MSCDEX) are loaded. Because those are loaded in

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.0 CD boot process and files

2008-01-21 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Ron, > 1. Will it boot from a CD or DVD it was mentioned it would. Yes it should boot if your PC is set to boot from CD or DVD. > Yes you did mention that it would boot from the CD but > what do you mean Live CD? Main purpose of our CD is to install DOS to harddisk. This is also the case fo

Re: [Freedos-user] Network sharing

2008-01-21 Thread Alain M.
Fabien Meghazi escreveu: > > 2) SMB : > I tried the msclient with no luck. > Besides, I heard it uses a lot of memory and I guess it could be a > nightmare to setup > with the different smb versions out there. So I dropped this option. You should try www.netbootdisk.com it is easy and it works

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS 1.0 (was Network sharing)

2008-01-21 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Jim, > There are several free ($0) virtual machine environments you can use. > VirtualPC, VirtualBox, VMWare are all very good. On my Linux system, > I use VirtualBox and DOSEmu, both for different things. I used to run > VMWare. That's still nice, but I'm trying out VirtualBox right now. Oth