both those links fail :(
anywhere else to look for the instructs and list of packages?
> Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 11:34:22 +0100
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] I'm looking for a way to use a USB floppy drive -
> I can boot from a CDROM drive o
>
>
> Hi David,
>
>> I booted the install disc and got it mostly done, but I'm having
>> difficulty setting up TCP/IP. The config script detects the laptops
>> onboard ethernet port (Realtek RTL8139/810x Family Fast Ethernet NIC)
>> and attempts to connect to my router's DHCP server and appears to hang
>> there...
>
> You can set up the networking manually, but I do really recommend
> to do a plain offline install - which is also a lot faster. You
> can configure your network manually later, it is not strictly
> needed for installation. After all, DOS is no Ubuntu ;-). Just
> make sure you unselect the network related packages:
>
> "I would recommend to install without network, see:
> http://fd-doc.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php?n=FdDocEn.FdInstall
> You can find a list of internet-using packages here:
> http://fd-doc.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php?n=FdDocEn.FdDependencies
> ..."
>
> For manual setup, you edit the wattcp.cfg file on the
> installed system later :-). There is an interactive
> setup thing in the installer, but there you cannot
> enter a DNS server IP, so it is kind of pointless?
>
> I hope Blair Campbell will provide a howto for fixing
> the interactive setup and for manual edit of wattcp.cfg,
> although the latter is semi self explaining ;-).
>
>> Since the DHCP client never finishes, the install script can't
>> go to the next thing to do. I was hoping I could specify the IPs
>> and netmask manually to avoid the DHCP client's hanging.
>
>> Can FreeDOS print to a TCP/IP connected LPR server?
>
> Dunno, many Linux packages were ported to DOS with the DJGPP
> GNU C compiler and C libraries for DOS. For example there is
> a DOS version of the command line tool smbclient for Samba.
> I think it was on mik.mkw.ru/dos-stuff/ :-).
>
> Eric
>
>
>
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