Re: [Freedos-user] DOS on VM ?

2006-09-25 Thread Gordon . Schumacher
"Marcel E. Tschudin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 09/23/2006 20:07:20 +0300: # 1) Which of the two VMs would be preferable for this application. I've personally had better luck with VMware, though VPC works okay. VPC is probably slightly more intuitive to use if you've never worked with a VM setu

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS on VM ?

2006-09-25 Thread Marcel Tschudin
... in the mean time I found how at least to access the Floppy Drive with FD on the VM. There would be a more convenient way by using a Virtual Floppy Drive, like this one http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/vfd.html#betabut I haven't yet managed to access it from FD on the VM; but this may be

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS on VM ?

2006-09-24 Thread tomleem
If you can get hold of it, you might be better off using an older version of Virtual Server 2005, ie Microsoft's Virtual PC 2003. I don't think you'll have the same issues with that and Windows XP Home. Hope this helps a little. Regards Chris. >From: tomleem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS on VM ?

2006-09-24 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Eric schreef: > On Sunday 24 September 2006 12:01, you wrote: > >> I ended up now exactly where I expected to encounter the problem: >> >> 1) Downloaded VMware Workstation (one of all the propositions) >> >> 2) Downloaded fdbasecd.iso >> >> 3) Started to create a new VM (thought 1GB should be en

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS on VM ?

2006-09-24 Thread Eric
On Sunday 24 September 2006 12:01, you wrote: > I ended up now exactly where I expected to encounter the problem: > > 1) Downloaded VMware Workstation (one of all the propositions) > > 2) Downloaded fdbasecd.iso > > 3) Started to create a new VM (thought 1GB should be enough for a DOS > application

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS on VM ?

2006-09-24 Thread Jim Hall
Marcel E. Tschudin wrote: > [... Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 or VMWare ...] > Here now my questions: > > 1) Which of the two VMs would be preferable for this application. > > 2) Once the VM would be installed, what do I have to do to get FreeDOS > installed on it? > Hi. I haven't run Micro

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS on VM

2006-09-24 Thread Marten Feldtmann
Microsoft now gives the VirtualPC away for free use - you may give it a try. But to be honest, the best emulator for DOS is still the latest software version of the VirtualPC BEFORE Microsoft bought the company and changed the development. We used that old version on several machines to get a sp

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS on VM ?

2006-09-23 Thread Eric
On Saturday 23 September 2006 21:22, Marcel Tschudin wrote: > After the hint on Microsoft I tried to install their Virtual Server 2005, > but it refuses an installation on Windows XP Home edition... > > Now I'm on the page of VMware and wonder what would be more appropriate for > my application, th

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS on VM ?

2006-09-23 Thread Chris Grove
If you can get hold of it, you might be better off using an older version of Virtual Server 2005, ie Microsoft's Virtual PC 2003. I don't think you'll have the same issues with that and Windows XP Home. Hope this helps a little. Regards Chris. ___

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS on VM ?

2006-09-23 Thread Marcel Tschudin
After the hint on Microsoft I tried to install their Virtual Server 2005, but it refuses an installation on Windows XP Home edition...Now I'm on the page of VMware and wonder what would be more appropriate for my application, the VMware Player or the VMware Server? Framework was great, you know its

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS on VM ?

2006-09-23 Thread Tony
> Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 20:07:20 +0300 > From: "Marcel E. Tschudin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [Freedos-user] DOS on VM ? > To: > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; > reply-type=original > > Hello everybody out there > > Jus

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS on VM

2006-09-23 Thread Chris Grove
>Message: 1 >Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 20:07:20 +0300 >From: "Marcel E. Tschudin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [Freedos-user] DOS on VM ? >To: >Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; > reply-type=original > >Hello everybody out there > >

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS on VM ?

2006-09-23 Thread Marcel Tschudin
First, thank you Eric and Aitor for your replies. > 1) Which of the two VMs would be preferable for this application.Neither. You can use Bochs or QEMU which are both free and open source ;-)But well, VMWare will work, too. As probably all others... There might be other technical criteria which mig

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS on VM ?

2006-09-23 Thread Aitor Santamaría
Hello, 2006/9/23, Eric Auer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > I would like to get Ashton Tate's old Framework III running on my computer > > with Windows XP. This seem to be possible by installing a virtual machine > > and on this DOS. From what I could find out so far, there are two VM > > freeware one

Re: [Freedos-user] DOS on VM ?

2006-09-23 Thread Eric Auer
> I would like to get Ashton Tate's old Framework III running on my computer > with Windows XP. This seem to be possible by installing a virtual machine > and on this DOS. From what I could find out so far, there are two VM > freeware one from Microsoft (Microsoft Virtual Server 2005) and one from