Hello all, As you you may already know, we have been working on the FreeDOS 1.2 release. One thing I would like to see make it into the release is some networking. I don’t think it would be practical to have a universal setup for each and every machine and NIC at this time. But, it may be possible to have the installer automatically do this for some of the known virtual machines. For example, it may be feasible to setup and configure VMware, VirtualBOX and QEMU to do networking. But, I don’t have the time to figure it all out. This is where all of you come in.
If you can provide the detailed information for these platforms and Jim approves, I may then be possible to include it. Here are the main and mostly obvious requirements. All files and drivers must have an acceptable license and can be redistributed. Public Domain, GPL, BSD or another open source or unrestricted license. No encumbered commercial drivers (such as NOVELL Netware, 3COM, NetGear, ….. ). DHCP setup only. Links to (or provide) any drivers and files that are required. (It would be nice if they were in a FDNPKG compatible package) Completely setup configuration files for the platform. (all INI, CFG files, etc) List of any current 1.2 repo packages that may be needed (excluding BASE packages). http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.2/repos/pkg-html/ Preferably, any files that are not in a package (like the config files) are placed under \NET\VMWARE, \NET\VBOX, \NET\QEMU or other appropriate directory for the platform. Also, please do not provide a customized config.sys or autoexec.bat. It should be possible to place all environment settings and load drivers from a \NET\STARTNET.BAT file. Thank you, Jerome (Without your support, there is no way any type of pre-configured networking will make it into the next release.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What NetFlow Analyzer can do for you? Monitors network bandwidth and traffic patterns at an interface-level. Reveals which users, apps, and protocols are consuming the most bandwidth. Provides multi-vendor support for NetFlow, J-Flow, sFlow and other flows. Make informed decisions using capacity planning reports.http://sdm.link/zohodev2dev _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user