Re: [Freedos-user] MetaDOS floppy distro (was: Re: How do you transfer files to your FreeDOS machine)

2014-12-05 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 2:42 PM, Louis Santillan wrote: > On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 11:54 AM, Rugxulo wrote: >> >> It seems the VirtualBox download (125 MB .ZIP) comes as a microscopic >> .vbox meta file and the main .vdi is roughly 300 MB. Yet it must be >> some kind of dynamically-sized imag

Re: [Freedos-user] MetaDOS floppy distro (was: Re: How do you transfer files to your FreeDOS machine)

2014-11-23 Thread Louis Santillan
On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 11:54 AM, Rugxulo wrote: > It seems the VirtualBox download (125 MB .ZIP) comes as a microscopic > .vbox meta file and the main .vdi is roughly 300 MB. Yet it must be > some kind of dynamically-sized image as VBox itself seems to indicate > it's 40 GB. It's a dynamic alloc

Re: [Freedos-user] MetaDOS floppy distro (was: Re: How do you transfer files to your FreeDOS machine)

2014-11-23 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 3:29 PM, Rugxulo wrote: > > It seems that other recent OSes also come as emulator images. > In particular, I'm thinking of ReactOS 0.3.17. So it's obviously not > that unpopular an idea. It certainly makes it easier to test things > out. > > https://reactos.org/node/911

Re: [Freedos-user] MetaDOS floppy distro (was: Re: How do you transfer files to your FreeDOS machine)

2014-11-06 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, Just for comparison On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Rugxulo wrote: > > http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/unofficial/metados/ > > Just for comparison, both FreeBSD (qcow, vhd, vmdk) and Haiku (vmdk) > have virtual hard disk images readily available f

Re: [Freedos-user] MetaDOS floppy distro (was: Re: How do you transfer files to your FreeDOS machine)

2014-10-01 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 3:50 PM, Christian Imhorst wrote: > > thank you very much for sharing METADOS. To me it looks very interesting > and I like the idea of having a FreeDOS live distro, too. VMDK files > are nice but I am using Qemu mainly. Therfore I was delighted that > METADOS is an I

Re: [Freedos-user] MetaDOS floppy distro (was: Re: How do you transfer files to your FreeDOS machine)

2014-09-30 Thread Christian Imhorst
Hi, thank you very much for sharing METADOS. To me it looks very interesting and I like the idea of having a FreeDOS live distro, too. VMDK files are nice but I am using Qemu mainly. Therfore I was delighted that METADOS is an IMG file. ;-) To complement your METADOS.TXT I use the PCNET driver t