[Freedos-user] Dhcp

2011-01-12 Thread James Collins
Hello, When I installed freedos, I have a MacBook pro running Mac os x snow leopard, the install got hung up on dhcp configuration. I tried several times where I entered the settings manually edited the configuration file manual and chose the default with no luck. Most everything else got insta

Re: [Freedos-user] Dhcp

2011-01-12 Thread Mike Eriksen
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 4:00 PM, James Collins wrote: > Hello, > When I installed freedos, I have a MacBook pro running Mac os x snow leopard, > the install got hung up on dhcp configuration. > > I tried several times where I entered the settings manually edited the > configuration file manual a

Re: [Freedos-user] Dhcp

2011-01-12 Thread James Collins
Thanks for the reply and link, I downloaded mTCP, So I guess I have to install this, some how and then I can reinstall freedos and dhcp should configure? I have to read the files that came with mTCP, Thanks again, any help with setting this up would be great. Sent from my iPhone On Jan 12,

Re: [Freedos-user] Dhcp

2011-01-12 Thread Mike Eriksen
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 4:34 PM, James Collins wrote: > Thanks for the reply and link, > > I downloaded mTCP, > So I guess I have to install this, some how and then I can reinstall freedos > and dhcp should configure? Install it on top of FreeDOS - first FD then mTCP. I only used it once last su

Re: [Freedos-user] Dhcp

2011-01-12 Thread mbbrutman
James, I'm not well versed on lynx - it is built on top of the WATTCP library. Try a simpler application like PING or FTP which also uses the WATTCP library before you move onto lynx - at least you will know you have the basic configuration settings correct. Somebody else already pointed

Re: [Freedos-user] Dhcp

2011-01-12 Thread James Collins
Hello, I am wondering how to get a file I downloaded into freedos? Is there away in freedos to copy a folder into freedos? What I was going to do was edit the mTCP configuration file put it on my c:\ drive and then run dhcp? But I don't know how to get the folder into my freedos c drive? Sent

Re: [Freedos-user] Dhcp

2011-01-12 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On 1/12/11, James Collins wrote: > > I am wondering how to get a file I downloaded into freedos? Is there away in > freedos to copy a folder into freedos? > > What I was going to do was edit the mTCP configuration file put it on my c:\ > drive and then run dhcp? > > But I don't know how to ge

Re: [Freedos-user] Dhcp

2011-01-12 Thread ellsnjel
When I installed lynx, I had to change some of the directories in the batch files. Check if the wattcp.cfg directory is correct in %dosdir%\lynx\lynxbat.bat. You should run %dosdir%\bin\lynx.bat because the batch file sets some environment variables lynx needs to run. However, you could set the

Re: [Freedos-user] Dhcp

2011-01-12 Thread James Collins
The part of the email that goes from where? I don't have in my email. I have a folder on my desktop on my MacBook pro that I want to copy into freedos. I copied the folder to an external USB floppy on my laptop. But freedos isn't recognizing it. I was thinking that this might be a virtualbox is

Re: [Freedos-user] Dhcp

2011-01-12 Thread Karen Lewellen
This may be a more basic question, but what format is the file in? Is it something that can be read across platforms, say audio? The file structures can differ from operating systems. the old / new reference is I think? to copy the old file name into the new one, although I may not be correct here

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos-user Digest, Vol 412, Issue 1, FDISK problem

2011-01-12 Thread Garrison Ricketson
Message: 1 Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 18:34:06 -0200 From: Alain Mouette Subject: [Freedos-user] FDISSK bug? To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <4d2b6d3e.7040...@pobox.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Hi all, A user reported to me that for some HardDis

Re: [Freedos-user] Dhcp

2011-01-12 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On 1/12/11, James Collins wrote: > > The part of the email that goes from where? I don't have in my email. > > I have a folder on my desktop on my MacBook pro that I want to copy into > freedos. I copied the folder to an external USB floppy on my laptop. But > freedos isn't recognizing it. F

Re: [Freedos-user] Dhcp

2011-01-12 Thread Karen Lewellen
hi! Thanks for this as it answers the usb question I posed a while back. Karen On Wed, 12 Jan 2011, Rugxulo wrote: > Hi, > > On 1/12/11, James Collins wrote: >> >> The part of the email that goes from where? I don't have in my email. >> >> I have a folder on my desktop on my MacBook pro that I w

Re: [Freedos-user] Dhcp

2011-01-12 Thread Mike Eriksen
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 9:58 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: > hi! > Thanks for this as it answers the usb question I posed a while back. > Karen > > On Wed, 12 Jan 2011, Rugxulo wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> On 1/12/11, James Collins wrote: >>> >>> The part of the email that goes from where? I don't have in m

Re: [Freedos-user] Dhcp

2011-01-12 Thread Freedom on the Oceans
On Wed, 2011-01-12 at 14:45 -0600, Rugxulo wrote: > Sorry, I missed the obvious problem that you're using a Mac. > Traditionally Macs have been ten thousand percent incompatible with > normal PCs (Wintel), but even now running x86, there's almost no > chance. I say "almost" because maybe?? someone

Re: [Freedos-user] network and usb floppy access on mac [was: Dhcp]

2011-01-12 Thread Eric Auer
Hi James, Uli, Rugxulo, happy new year everybody :-) do I understand correctly that you want to copy from MacOS to FreeDOS but both run on the same hardware, DOS running in VirtualBox? As Mac understands FAT, it might help to copy the files to any FAT drive, eg USB stick, USB harddisk or floppy,

Re: [Freedos-user] Packages in FreeDOS

2011-01-12 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Ivan / bla bla, >> Hello everyone. Yesterday I've just installed FreeDOS 1.0 on my laptop. It >> has installed not only the base system but dozens of packages. The clue is, >> once installed, I don't have any idea of what's installed in the system >> (compressors, compilers, utilities...). >>

Re: [Freedos-user] network and usb floppy access on mac [was: Dhcp]

2011-01-12 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On 1/12/11, Eric Auer wrote: > > As Mac understands FAT, > it might help to copy the files to any FAT drive, eg > USB stick, USB harddisk or floppy, and then "connect" > that to your VirtualBox (probably configuration thing > which needs restarting the DOS)... Not sure, I think directly usin

Re: [Freedos-user] network and usb floppy access on mac [was: Dhcp]

2011-01-12 Thread James Collins
Hello, One of my goals is to set up dhcp, cause I didn't during the install. I would like to fool around with lynx within in freedos. I have some older software like word perfect, some games etc. That I wanted to install. I really want to be able to type a: at a dos prompt and access my floppy