On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Bob George wrote: > 1. I did a "minimal install" using Mandrake (MDK) 9.2. I selected MDK as a > mainstream distribution that anybody who really wants to should be able to get > ahold of, and for the good support I've found for it. This comes in at ~230MB. > Large for a "minimal" but still reasonable for most PII and up systems (a > high-end SurvPC?). I suspect this could be under 100MB using Debian, but would > be more work to set up. > PuppyLinux (created for installation to Pendrive), or maybe DamnSmallLinux (live CD distro for lower-powered machines) should be smaller than that - that's with a gui included! (not sure if you need/want one). Both their install-to-HD routines are still in beta, but I think they're getting pretty stable. Don't know if the business card Linux distro has an install to HD feature, but that might be another option.
> 4. I made the config tweaks (3 entrys) in the dosemu.conf file to enable > "packet driver" emulation. With DOSemu running in a separate console, I > configured a bridge between eth0 (the physical ethernet interface) and the tap0 > interface that DOSemu talks to. Much Linux voodoo here, and having done this > before certainly helped. When I'm done, I'll write up some fairly detailed > HOWTO instructions for anybody interested, and maybe some simple scripts. I was > NOT able to get DOS Lynx working, but I suspect that's because of my > unfamiliarity with the program setup (*grr*), BUT I was able to get HTTP-GET to > work. So any DOS program that uses packet drivers for 'net access should be OK. > This was the only tricky part in the whole network deal. Anything beyond this > point is just routing and networking setup under Linux. > I'll look forward to that documentation. I've been wondering how to get DOSemu on the 'net. > anymore myself, so I don't have a bunch laying around. However, if anybody can > provide pointers to some, I'll give 'em a quick test. I'd really like to test > any DOS apps that do enhanced display options. > I suppose you know about this site: http://www.opus.co.tt/dave/indexall.htm ? You should be able to find a wealth of candidates for testing there. > be. I'd like to try WP5.1, something using elaborate memory management and > anything else "challenging". > I've got WP 6.0 I could make available for testing purposes, if that would help. James To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
