Hi, On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 6:54 AM, Alain Mouette <ala...@pobox.com> wrote: > > On 20-11-2015 22:36, Rugxulo wrote: >> Just to give some minor feedback for your valiant efforts .... > Thanks :) :)
I'll say this much as well, it boots pretty fast. >> It does whine at bootup about "home/alain" (shared) not existing, but >> I didn't test that functionality yet. > That is just the shared folder configuration, it is the best way to > access your machine's files. > I am not sure what would be the best default configuration I also added "c:\rugxulo" as host folder, so lemme try and see if reading from that works: yes! >> Didn't test any graphical stuff (e.g. Doom) yet. > when you can, please report :) Doom works without sound, which (AFAIK) is a fairly common fault, even under DOSEMU. I was using (updated) MBF, but shareware Doom won't even run at all. >> I had to switch from (default) "bridged" to "NAT" first, in VBox >> settings. > I use Bridged to share resources on my local network. > We could change that in a general distribution I don't know what would be best here. I'm no networking guru. >> Well, I haven't tested much else (e.g. Links2) yet, but I did use the >> host (Linux) wget to grab the old FreeDOS/DJGPP build of wget from >> iBiblio. Once I created a simple wattcp.cfg (and "set WATTCP.CFG=..." >> accordingly in autoexec.bat) and created a wgetrc, then it seems to >> work fine, e.g. grabbing a .ZIP file from https://sites.google.com/.... > :) :) :) Links2 also seems to work fairly well. Once you have those two pieces, it's easy to grab other stuff. >> The bigger problem, beyond even translated text, is the unfamiliarity >> of the keyboard layout. For instance, finding chars like '\' and '/' >> seems a bit difficult (at least to my uninformed self). A quick Google >> image search shows that some .br keyboards have a key to the left of >> the 'z' char, which I sadly do not, heh. Sure, numpad has '/' but it's >> not available in all contexts. > That should be configures in Autoexec.bat using standard FreeDOS keyb You're right, I mistakenly assumed it was a global Ubuntu setting. But indeed, commenting out "call boot\keyb.bat" in autoexec.bat totally fixed this for me. >> Other minor comments: >> >> * NDN (2006) isn't even latest (2010) version: http://ndn.muxe.com/ > I have been using this for years, as it is 'just-fine" I never bothered > to upgrade. > I will have a look at the new one. I assume you're aware of other DN variants (with sources, unlike NDN): original DN151 or spinoffs like DN2 and DNOSP. Also don't forget Doszip! ;-) But yeah, I like NDN too, obviously. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
