> On 7/17/2019 4:41 AM, kaye n wrote: >> My apologies. Wrong choice of words. I am aware that this is not a >> paid support line. >> >> Anyway, here's my question. >> >> I have a desktop computer running a Linux distro. In this LInux distro >> I have installed VirtualBox, and in this VirtualBox I have installed >> Freedos. >> >> The virtual Freedos is running fine. However I can't figure out a way >> to allow the virtual Freedos to access the different partitions of the >> hard drive (for example an NTFS partition that contains my personal >> data), as well as any USB flash drive. >> >> Is this impossible if the Freedos installation is only virtual?
> That is a VirtualBox issue, not a FreeDOS issue. V/B needs to provide a > pass-through to the partitions that you want to access. they have that for more recent operating systems like OS/2 or better. as VirtualBox is open source, feel free to provide a DOS client ;) > Beside that you > will have problems with accessing a NTFS partition of said pass-through > in a network-redirector way... why do you think that? this has clearly been done by a) network redirectors like LANMAN and b) MS VirtualPC even had a client for DOS, working flawlessly. Tom _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
