Re: [Freedos-user] Simple guide for networking FreeDOS 1.2 in a VirtualBox VM ?

2016-12-26 Thread Jerome Shidel
William, > On Dec 26, 2016, at 12:16 PM, William Dudley wrote: > > Jerome, > > Thanks, that was useful. It would be better if it also discussed the settings > needed in VirtualBox. I figured it out eventually but it took me a bit of > googling > to figure out. > > Bill

Re: [Freedos-user] Simple guide for networking FreeDOS 1.2 in a VirtualBox VM ?

2016-12-26 Thread Jerome Shidel
Made a quick YouTube video of doing a VirtualBox install and how to add networking support. https://youtu.be/k0sP1VAo0D8 -- Developer Access Program for Intel Xeon Phi Processors Access to Intel Xeon Phi processor-based

Re: [Freedos-user] Simple guide for networking FreeDOS 1.2 in a VirtualBox VM ?

2016-12-26 Thread William Dudley
Ah-hah. Nothing works if you have switchar='-'. NOW, fresh boot, FDIMPLE manages to install FDNET package. Bill Dudley This email is free of malware because I run Linux. On Sun, Dec 25, 2016 at 9:31 PM, Jerome Shidel wrote: > > > On Dec 25, 2016, at 4:57 PM, William

Re: [Freedos-user] Simple guide for networking FreeDOS 1.2 in a VirtualBox VM ?

2016-12-26 Thread William Dudley
Regan, Where is the "fdinstall" program? I cannot find one on my FreeDOS install. When I do "dir /s fdinstall.exe" I get "File not found.". Ditto for " fdinstall.com". Thanks, Bill Dudley This email is free of malware because I run Linux. On Sun, Dec 25, 2016 at 8:45 PM, regan

Re: [Freedos-user] Simple guide for networking FreeDOS 1.2 in a VirtualBox VM ?

2016-12-26 Thread William Dudley
Jerome, When I try this, I see this on screen after selecting "OK": install d:\net\fdnet.zip (white text on blue) Aborted. C:\> If I type "install", I get 'bad command or filename - "install".' >From where does the "install" program come? dir /s install.exe returns "File not found." Ditto

Re: [Freedos-user] Simple guide for networking FreeDOS 1.2 in a VirtualBox VM ?

2016-12-26 Thread William Dudley
Abe, Running Linux, so Windows ability to mount VHD is not useful. Thanks, Bill Dudley This email is free of malware because I run Linux. On Sun, Dec 25, 2016 at 10:18 PM, Abe Mishler wrote: > Bill, > > Earlier this summer, one of the many helpful people here pointed

Re: [Freedos-user] Simple guide for networking FreeDOS 1.2 in a VirtualBox VM ?

2016-12-25 Thread Abe Mishler
Bill, Earlier this summer, one of the many helpful people here pointed out that the VHD format can be mounted directly by Windows. You can probably find a guide for doing something similar on Linux with whatever format you have chosen. The VM of course needs to be off while mounted by the

Re: [Freedos-user] Simple guide for networking FreeDOS 1.2 in a VirtualBox VM ?

2016-12-25 Thread regan
Hello Bill, Using Freedos 1.2 and Virtual box Version 5.1.10 r112026 (Qt5.6.2) When I installed Freedos, I installed the standard CD image, I got a second disk path D: I did this: cd C:\fdos\bin dir D:\net C: rem foreach package in the directory listing I did (each package) becomes each zip

Re: [Freedos-user] Simple guide for networking FreeDOS 1.2 in a VirtualBox VM ?

2016-12-25 Thread Jerome Shidel
> On Dec 25, 2016, at 4:57 PM, William Dudley wrote: > > Is there a simple guide for networking FreeDOS 1.2 in a VirtualBox VM ? No guide needed under VirtualBox Install the FDNET package and reboot. If you downloaded a CD version and did a FULL (not BASE) install, just: