Hi Ezequiel, > Hello all, I'm really new in FreeDOS but I am also old enough to have > started working on MS-DOS 2.1 > > The thing is I want to run my old Turbo Pascal programs. So I configured a > VirtualBox FreeDOS virtual Machine (my PC has Ubuntu 12) > > ...and now I'm stucked on copy the Turbo Pascal installer on the FreeDOS VM. > > VirtualBox says I need to do a NET USE to configure the shared folders. I > can do that, but apparently FreeDOS does not recognize NET USE, so I'm here > asking if FreeDOS has another way to do a NET USE.
If I understand you correctly, you only want to use NET USE to access files on the host OS while running DOS within a complete virtual PC. With a DOS-aware box for your DOS, this is not necessary. For example in DOSEMU, you simply define any Linux directory as any drive letter for DOS. Similar things can be done with dosbox. The latter is mostly interesting within Windows, as DOSEMU is only available for Linux. Also, dosbox simulates even DOS itself, with gamers as the target audience. DOSEMU only simulates "peripheral" hardware (graphics card etc) and lets you run a real DOS inside. Dosbox only lets you use your own DOS in "boot from virtual floppy" mode, I think...? Last but not least, there are some DOS client drivers for a few things for VMWARE, afair, and you can use the command line SMBCLIENT DOS port if you ever need to access Samba / Windows network drives but do not want to load the memory hog MSCLIENT drivers by MS. Regards, Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ How ServiceNow helps IT people transform IT departments: 1. A cloud service to automate IT design, transition and operations 2. Dashboards that offer high-level views of enterprise services 3. A single system of record for all IT processes http://p.sf.net/sfu/servicenow-d2d-j _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
