Hi, On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 7:23 AM, Mateusz Viste <mate...@viste.fr> wrote: > > How do you transfer files between your main computer and your > FreeDOS-powered machine ?
FYI .... Recently I did make an extremely minimal bootable 1.44 MB floppy .img. (.ZIP'd it is less than 400 kb.) It has almost nothing on it, by design, except just enough to enable simple networking (packet driver + mTCP's DHCP + FTP). The point was that you would grab (via network) whatever pieces you need. For lack of a better name, I called it "MetaDOS", thus it's meant to build your own floppy (or even indirectly create a hard disk image: fdisk, format, sys), esp. for use with certain emulators, tested successfully (Win7 64-bit) with VirtualBox 4.3.x and (admittedly old) QEMU 0.9.0 and 0.13.0. Maybe this was "too obvious" or "yet another niche". The point was that there's very few files (approx. 25), so very little to constantly update, thus not too much of a burden to chase down and mirror full sources, etc. Oh, BTW, I made a small VISIT.BAT that will anonymously connect to popular FTP (mirror) sites, e.g. simtel, garbo, x2ftp, sac.sk, djgpp, ibiblio. Lots of good stuff there. I don't think a full (FreeDOS) "BASE" will fit on a single floppy. But I also don't think it's obvious what most people want or need either. We do probably still need a public and reliable floppy .img for FreeDOS. (For pete's sake, QEMU still links to ODIN 2005. And Jim Hall recently removed all of the "unofficial" floppy images from iBiblio, ugh.) Does literally anybody have any interest in this? Obviously the diehards will roll their own (if haven't already a dozen times over). Jim Michaels? Felix Miata? (I have no idea if a QEMU host binary exists for OS/2. It seems that BOCHS is supposed to work, but I don't actively know what [if any] packet driver would work there. For now, there are only three packet drivers included, and the last is untested. I just blindly assume it could work under VMware as well. Testing every emulator under the sun is infeasible. But obviously the more the merrier.) P.S. I'm also vaguely aware that MTools will allow you to insert files into a disk .img directly, hence no huge need for an emulator, if all you need is to add stuff. Not sure of equivalent DOS-hosted tools, the few I tried in the past were somewhat incomplete or buggy, but some do exist. Further testing or comments on that are also welcome. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Infragistics Professional Build stunning WinForms apps today! Reboot your WinForms applications with our WinForms controls. Build a bridge from your legacy apps to the future. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=153845071&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
