Re: [Freedos-user] Intro
Hi Chris, I've been following FreeDOS on and off for a while, thinking it would be fun to write a version of InterLNK in my non-existent free time. Alas, it will have to wait. Good idea! Original interlnk did the following: A driver on the server side kept more or less the whole server busy, and transferred raw disk sectors to/from the client. The client driver behaves as any disk or ramdisk driver, but communicates with the server instead of using ram or a local disk for storage. There is also the filemaven freeware file mgr which has file transfer functionality but which does not create a DOS drive letter. Instead, you just use the file mgr to transfer the files :-). Last but not least, a FTP style Samba command line client exists for DOS. It is a DJGPP DOS port of the Linux smbclient tool. My current project is to use FreeDOS to get a minimal Ubuntu installation on my ancient ThinkPad 750P: 5GB disk, 36MB RAM Pretty small RAM-wise :-). But you could run Linux 2.2 based distros on 12 to 32 MB RAM more or less. Dunno if you have a chance with a modern but light Xubuntu ;-). make a FreeDOS boot floppy with card and socket services and a driver for my PCCard SD card reader [and then loadlin/linld] Sounds okay but you could also boot from a floppy Linux distro or a DOS network floppy and then download the file via network... I think SD readers are not really trivial to support, as they are less standardized than PCMCIA/CF or USB storage...? Eric - SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Intro
On Dec 17, 2007 11:05 AM, Eric Auer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris wrote: I've been following FreeDOS on and off for a while, thinking it would be fun to write a version of InterLNK in my non-existent free time. Alas, it will have to wait. Good idea! Original interlnk did the following: A driver on the server side kept more or less the whole server busy, and transferred raw disk sectors to/from the client. Right. The MS version worked with the hard and floppy drives, and IBM's version even worked with the CD drive. I think a FreeDOS version should work with any mounted drive. My current project is to use FreeDOS to get a minimal Ubuntu installation on my ancient ThinkPad 750P: 5GB disk, 36MB RAM Pretty small RAM-wise :-). But you could run Linux 2.2 based distros on 12 to 32 MB RAM more or less. Dunno if you have a chance with a modern but light Xubuntu ;-). A minimal Ubuntu install has no GUI. That should be pretty lightweight. I can add XFCE later, if I can get X to work at all. make a FreeDOS boot floppy with card and socket services and a driver for my PCCard SD card reader [and then loadlin/linld] Sounds okay but you could also boot from a floppy Linux distro or a DOS network floppy and then download the file via network... I think SD readers are not really trivial to support, as they are less standardized than PCMCIA/CF or USB storage...? With the minimal work I did (basically loading DISKDRV.SYS and seeing it didn't work automatically), I'm now trying to get a stack of floppies to work with the 9MB Ubuntu mini ISO, and it crashes at startup. Not a topic for this list, however. Chris - SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Intro
Hi Chris, Right. The MS version worked with the hard and floppy drives, and IBM's version even worked with the CD drive. I think a FreeDOS version should work with any mounted drive. Actually it makes it easy and reasonably fast to transport sectors via the link, but otoh it limits links to FAT style drives and forces you to make the drive readonly for soft- ware on the server while a client is linked... On the other hand, real network drive interfaces or at least a remote shsucdx / mscdex are complex, and you may want to implement an already widespread protocol such as NFS or SMB if you go the complex route anyway. With nice locking/sharing etc :-). A minimal Ubuntu install has no GUI. Actually Linux 2.2 is very slow with any GUI below 32 MB ;-). I used fvwm2 on the 12 to 32 MB systems but of course only with lightweight apps. Today that means Dillo, not Mozilla. Eric - SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
