"Does DSL allow you to, say, install apt (or another package manager), gcc,
make, etc.,"
No.
"or does it only allow you to run the common linux commands shown on the
BusyBox website?"
Yes.
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On Tuesday, September 29, 2020 12:33 PM, Jason Pittman
<jason.pitt...@jasonpittman.com> wrote:
> I know nothing about BusyBox, so I'm going to ask a dumb question. Does DSL
> allow you to, say, install apt (or another package manager), gcc, make, etc.,
> or does it only allow you to run the common linux commands shown on the
> BusyBox website?
>
> (And on a side note, has anyone actually gotten it to work? I'd already know
> the answer to my question above if I could get it to do something other than
> crash the VM when I run "dsl.com")
>
> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
> On Wednesday, September 23, 2020 11:33 AM, Jim Hall <jh...@freedos.org> wrote:
>
>> After poking around the GitHub project, this is actually a very clever
>> thing. Looks like he's using VM86 mode (requires '386 or later CPU) to
>> instantiate a dedicated Linux kernel with BusyBox to run the Linux commands.
>> This is not bringing up a full Linux installation in a VM - this is only the
>> kernel + BusyBox. So that keeps it small.
>>
>> Now, what would you *do* with this? Why would you need DSL under FreeDOS?
>> I'm not sure. But it's a neat idea that is well done. Good job!
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 10:41 AM Louis Santillan <lpsan...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> The author freely admits running DOS & Linux side-by-side this way is
>>> a fragile coordination [0]. I doubt that redirection would work as
>>> one might desire. The recently updated ascii demo [1] shows calling
>>> various DOS and Linux commands, and, shows creating a text file with
>>> `dsl vi hello.txt` and then later opening that same file with `edit
>>> hello.txt`. Interestingly, the file appears written to the filesystem
>>> as `HELLO.TXT`, as MS-DOS 6.22 is case insensitive (w/o a LFN driver).
>>> I wonder what would happen if an LFN driver was added to the mix.
>>>
>>> [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24556801
>>> [1]
>>> https://camo.githubusercontent.com/deb8f6b6cc59686ba91a3758daeb047fccdf05dd/68747470733a2f2f636861726c69652e73752f7265636f7264696e672d61633565396166353936613931382e676966
>>>
>>> On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 4:39 AM Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi everybody,
>>>>
>>>> I would predict doslinux to be a variant of a Linux loader,
>>>> so my questions here are: Can Linux safely write to the DOS
>>>> partition while running? What are the limitations to return
>>>> to DOS after using Linux? Is it possible to switch between
>>>> DOS and Linux without having to reboot Linux each time? Are
>>>> direct interactions possible, e.g. run single apps and pipe
>>>> their output from Linux to DOS or from DOS to Linux?
>>>>
>>>> As Jim writes about modifications to make doslinux work with
>>>> FreeDOS, it can probably do more than just load Linux, but I
>>>> would be happy to read more about the details here on the list.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks :-) Eric
>>>>
>>>>
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