Re: [Freedos-user] Help Using FreeDOS1.1
Hi, On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 10:46 AM, panyong wrote: > > I installed FreeDOS1.1 on Parallels , and i want to install some software > on the list http://www.freedos.org/software/ I don't have a Mac or Parallels. Does it even officially support DOS at all? (Wikipedia says Parallels Desktop 8 does.) A quick search shows this: "How to install MS DOS 6.22 using Parallels Desktop for Mac" http://kb.parallels.com/en/113442 > I've tried to use a browser , but there is no on freedos . I've also tried > using the usb-flash-disk to share a file , but i fail again. I don't know > how to copy the software-file to freedos. Maybe setup an FTP server and swap files via that (see VBox guide below). > Any help Using FreeDOS would be appreciated. At risk of giving you redundant advice (and making you download yet another 100 MB), have you tried VirtualBox? At least, some of us here have more experience with it (and FreeDOS). At least a packet driver and networking works there for me. http://lazybrowndog.net/freedos/virtualbox/ Note that I know it's probably better to get Parallels working, but if you can't do that, then for simplicity, if you can afford the bandwidth, a suitable workaround might be to just use VirtualBox instead. At least for now. -- ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Help Using FreeDOS1.1
At 08:46 AM 7/11/2014, panyong wrote: Hi, I installed FreeDOS1.1 on Parallels , and i want to install some software on the list http://www.freedos.org/software/ I¡¯ve tried to use a browser , but there is no on freedos . I've also tried using the usb-flash-disk to share a file , but i fail again. I don¡¯t know how to copy the software-file to freedos. Any help Using FreeDOS would be appreciated. What I do for ESXi (VMWare's hypervisor) is to use the CD-ROM in FreeDOS. I can either mount an iso file as the CD-ROM (which is what I usually do) or mount the physical CD-ROM. Maybe Parallels allows something similar. -- ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Help Using FreeDOS1.1
I see. In such case my suggestion about finding a packet driver to set up networking might be the good way to go - providing this Parallels hypervisor allows to emulate a network card that a packet driver exists for.. If believing loose information I find on internet, Parallels emulates a rtl8029 NIC, therefore using a packet driver for it sounds very doable. Mateusz On 07/11/2014 08:46 PM, dmccunney wrote: > On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Mateusz Viste wrote: >> On 07/11/2014 05:46 PM, panyong wrote: >>> I installed FreeDOS1.1 on Parallels , >> >> I don't know what "Parallels" is. Is it some sort of hypervisor, like >> VirtualBox or VMWare ? > > Correct. It's a package for Macs using Intel X86 CPUs that allows you > to do things like run OS/X and Windows side by side on the Mac. See > http://www.parallels.com/products/desktop/ > > I think his problem is how he gets FreeDOS packages from the > repository into his Parallels installation. > >> Mateusz > __ > Dennis > https://plus.google.com/u/0/105128793974319004519 > > -- > ___ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > -- ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Help Using FreeDOS1.1
On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Mateusz Viste wrote: > On 07/11/2014 05:46 PM, panyong wrote: >> I installed FreeDOS1.1 on Parallels , > > I don't know what "Parallels" is. Is it some sort of hypervisor, like > VirtualBox or VMWare ? Correct. It's a package for Macs using Intel X86 CPUs that allows you to do things like run OS/X and Windows side by side on the Mac. See http://www.parallels.com/products/desktop/ I think his problem is how he gets FreeDOS packages from the repository into his Parallels installation. > Mateusz __ Dennis https://plus.google.com/u/0/105128793974319004519 -- ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Help Using FreeDOS1.1
> Best would be to setup networking on your FreeDOS OS. Does "Parallels" > come with an ethernet adapter of any kind? If so, and if you're lucky, > you might find a packet driver that will fit. > Mateusz I think newer motherboards use newer Ethernet chips where there is no packet driver. But the BIOS or UEFI recognizes the Ethernet, so maybe there is a way to make FreeDOS use that? Or might it be possible to boot FreeDOS by PXE? Now I can't even install FreeDOS 1.1 onto a USB stick and make it bootable, either by SYS or Syslinux. But I can boot this FreeDOS using grub4dos on another USB stick, or IDE hard drive in a Sabrent USB 2.0 hard-drive enclosure. That Sabrent hard-drive enclosure also supports eSATA but only for SATA hard drive. For graphic web browsers for FreeDOS, I can think of Arachne, Links and Dillo. Net-Tamer has apparently not been updated since 1999 and was only good for dialup PPP connection. Even I believe even Netscape and Internet Explorer from 1999 would be severely limited on today's WWW. Tom -- ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] Help Using FreeDOS1.1
On 07/11/2014 05:46 PM, panyong wrote: > I installed FreeDOS1.1 on Parallels , I don't know what "Parallels" is. Is it some sort of hypervisor, like VirtualBox or VMWare ? > I’ve tried to use a browser , but there is no on freedos . There is Dillo. And the good old Arachne of course. Otherwise you can still use gopher ;-) > I've also > tried using the usb-flash-disk to share a file , but i fail again. I > don’t know how to copy the software-file to freedos. Best would be to setup networking on your FreeDOS OS. Does "Parallels" come with an ethernet adapter of any kind? If so, and if you're lucky, you might find a packet driver that will fit. Mateusz -- ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user