Hi Rugxulo, Thanks for your offer, but I managed to reproduce the various problems easily on a small vbox FreeDOS install, so I should have enough to investigate :)
And yes, the vbox guest environment is quite confusing indeed... hard to sort out "real" bugs out of buggy vbox behavior (but at least the keyboard works now, last time I played with vbox I remember it had big troubles to handle keyboard keypresses...) cheers, Mateusz On 08/11/2014 04:31 AM, Rugxulo wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 8:57 PM, Mateusz Viste <mate...@viste.fr> wrote: >> >> About fdnpkg freezing: how could I reproduce this problem exactly? Should it >> be enough to just install >> freedos 1.1 on virtualbox, without any special configuration, and boot the >> latest version of all_cd.iso >> on top of it? What network card model are you simulating? (and what packet >> driver handles it?) > > For my VBox, the default seems to be "PCnet-FAST III (Am79C973)". > Can't remember what FD 1.1 uses ... (boots up temporarily) ... > apparently PCNTPK.COM (though I don't know the details offhand). > > He says he's using 4.3.14, which is "latest", AFAICT. However, due to > obscure bugs on some hosts (e.g. Windows), some people (including > myself) have rolled back to 4.3.12. And my Dell laptop machine here is > Win7 (64-bit) and no VT-X. > > So, my point is, I think I vaguely remember him saying he uses Mac OS > X, presumably the 64-bit VBox app, but I don't know if he's got VT-X > enabled or not (nor whether that helps or hurts). > > P.S. Sorry, I admit to not fiddling with FDNPKG much lately, so I > don't know much about it. Though if you want someone to try to > duplicate his steps, feel free to give me explicit hints. But I'm not > sure what's going on here so far, sounds very confusing. > >> On August 11, 2014 1:21:29 AM GMT+02:00, Ulrich <my.gr...@mailbox.org> wrote: >>> >>> I am a bit stuck with FDNPKG. >>> >>> Unfortunately there's no installation routine that lets me install the >>> necessary 79 packages (plus configuration files) conveniently. Also >>> only the first fdnpkg command runs successfully. Afterwards the >>> VirtualBox guest freezes. I didn't have the nerve to switch the guest >>> off and on again 79 times and then create FDCONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT >>> by hand. >>> >>> VirtualBox version is 4.3.14. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
