Re: [Freedos-user] Virtual floppy change problem with VirtualBox

2012-05-16 Thread Wolfgang Schechinger
-Nachricht Datum: Wed, 16 May 2012 13:27:59 -0430 Von: Marco Achury marcoach...@gmail.com An: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net Betreff: Re: [Freedos-user] Virtual floppy change problem with VirtualBox El 16/05/2012 12:03 p.m., Wolfgang Schechinger escribió: Dear experts, I have

Re: [Freedos-user] Virtual floppy change problem with VirtualBox

2012-05-16 Thread Wolfgang Schechinger
Hi Ulrich, thanks for the hint! I have commented out the line in autoexec.bat which loads the UIDE.SYS cdrom driver. Now there is no problem accessing the floppy images. Best regards, Wo -- Empfehlen Sie GMX DSL Ihren Freunden und Bekannten und wir belohnen Sie mit bis zu 50,- Euro!

Re: [Freedos-user] Virtual floppy change problem with VirtualBox

2012-05-19 Thread Wolfgang Schechinger
Hi Jack, I am so happy that there is something like FreeDos available, even for free, that I can play around with. As I usually pretty soon run into very strange challenges for (any) software - some people say, that every computer that sees me for the first time, simply crashes, simply for

Re: [Freedos-user] Virtual floppy change problem with VirtualBox

2012-05-19 Thread Wolfgang Schechinger
Jack, I don't think that this is possible. In my case, the installation prgrams is asking for the disks one by one, so there is no way to issue a commandline command inbetween. Wolfgang -- NEU: FreePhone 3-fach-Flat mit kostenlosem Smartphone! Jetzt

Re: [Freedos-user] Virtual floppy change problem with VirtualBox

2012-05-19 Thread Wolfgang Schechinger
Jack, when your harddrive as well as your floppies are virtual: does it make sense to cache them at all? The host operating system probably is already caching the relevant data. Wolfgang -- Empfehlen Sie GMX DSL Ihren Freunden und Bekannten und wir belohnen Sie mit bis zu 50,- Euro!

Re: [Freedos-user] Virtual floppy change problem with VirtualBox

2012-05-20 Thread Wolfgang Schechinger
Dear STF, I have tried both. No difference. Wo How did you change the floppy? I mean, did you just choose one image file after another? Or did you *remove* the current floppy image *and then* choose the next one? -- Empfehlen Sie GMX DSL Ihren Freunden und Bekannten und wir

[Freedos-user] Prevent boot from Floppy?

2012-05-20 Thread Wolfgang Schechinger
Der experts, may I ask another question: Is there a way to make FreeDos ignore that there is a floppy present upon boot, i.e. force a boot from the harddrive? Again only a problem when running it in a VM, I think, as on a hard PC, you may set the boot options in the BIOS. Thanks! Wolfgang