Hi Rugxulo, FreeDOS users, forwarding something interesting from the forum from you ;-) http://www.bttr-software.de/forum/forum_entry.php?id=14456
Cheers, Eric MetaDOS 0.2 (network-aware floppy .img, 100% open source) (Announce) posted by Rugxulo(R) Homepage E-mail, Usono, 15.09.2015, 02:14 Since someone was asking about packet drivers under QEMU on the freedos-user mailing list, I decided to finally just upload MetaDOS 0.2 for them/us. It's far from perfect, somewhat simplistic and rough around the edges, but (for now) it's better than nothing. http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/unofficial/metados/ It's only default a 600 kb .ZIP (with 3 MB .7z for full sources). You can see a listing of the .img contents here. Features: * simple floppy .img (minimal tools, XMS only, customizable RAM disk size) * but a full HD install is still possible (fdisk, format, sys, bootmgr, xwcopy) * custom FD 2041 kernel, easy to rebuild (minor patches for OLB [Eric Auer] and ctime [Matej Horvat]) * networking enabled by default for QEMU or VBox (NE2000 or PCNET), e.g. FTP (or optionally Wget or Links2, if needed) * "fetch" to grab various files (e.g. FD "BASE" or "UTIL") * "stubs" (to fill in gaps dynamically at runtime) * "tests" (to prove that everything works as intended) * "binhack" for (legally) patching binary files when needed * "extras" that aren't crucial but still interesting * isolation of certain settings, thus %BOOT%, %RAMDRIVE%, %EDITOR% are easily changeable (so booting USB on my old P4 as "c:" via PLoP boot manager floppy still works even if USB is forced read-only) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
