Re: [Freedos-user] freedos on vmware

2007-03-23 Thread Bonnie Dalzell
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Russell Button wrote: RB >Jim Hall wrote: RB >> I run Fedora Core 6. I do have VMWare, but I don't often boot DOS in RB >> it. Most of my FreeDOS work is done under Linux DOSEmu. I think you RB >> should be able to do it in Linux DOSEmu. At least, I believe it RB >> solves

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos on vmware

2007-03-23 Thread Alain M.
Hi Bernd, > [...] HTTP/FTP downloads through packet driver (Wget), What version do you use? does it work ok? On the net I found wget182b-1.zip wput031.zip I was in need tof developing them!!! What would I use for sending emails (with attachement file) Thanks, Alain --

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos on vmware

2007-03-23 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Eric Auer schreef: > Hi Russell, > > dosemu is probably the answer to most of your questions :-). > > Get the new unstable version from the site, > most Linux distros only include older versions. > I've had DOS networking running on VmWare Workstation, both the SMB (MS Network Client) and HTTP/

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos on vmware

2007-03-23 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Russell, dosemu is probably the answer to most of your questions :-). Get the new unstable version from the site, most Linux distros only include older versions. > I'm running vmware server under Ubuntu Linux 6.06 (Dapper Drake). > I've been able to create a vm to host freedos and to get it

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos on vmware

2007-03-23 Thread Russell Button
Jim Hall wrote: > I run Fedora Core 6. I do have VMWare, but I don't often boot DOS in > it. Most of my FreeDOS work is done under Linux DOSEmu. I think you > should be able to do it in Linux DOSEmu. At least, I believe it > solves most of what you are looking for: > Is there a how-to cookb

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos on vmware

2007-03-23 Thread Russell Button
Jim Hall wrote: > I run Fedora Core 6. I do have VMWare, but I don't often boot DOS in > it. Most of my FreeDOS work is done under Linux DOSEmu. I think you > should be able to do it in Linux DOSEmu. At least, I believe it > solves most of what you are looking for: > Y'know, I hadn't though

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos-user Digest, Vol 10, Issue 13

2007-03-23 Thread Jim Hall
Probably he is blocking everything. When I sent my note, I got a message about the spam-blocking protocol in use at sobyland, and had to complete a "ticket" to be allowed to send email there. In the end, I'm not sure that my email made it through, but I jumped through the hoops presented to me, s

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos on vmware

2007-03-23 Thread Jim Hall
I run Fedora Core 6. I do have VMWare, but I don't often boot DOS in it. Most of my FreeDOS work is done under Linux DOSEmu. I think you should be able to do it in Linux DOSEmu. At least, I believe it solves most of what you are looking for: 1. I haven't needed networking under DOS, so I haven

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos on vmware

2007-03-23 Thread Alain M.
Some of these can be done... Russell Button escreveu: > I'm running vmware server under Ubuntu Linux 6.06 (Dapper Drake). Nice :) > 1. Get IP networking running on the freedos VM. What can be doen is install Windows client for dos (It is free), you will have to find the driver for the board e

[Freedos-user] freedos on vmware

2007-03-23 Thread Russell Button
I'm running vmware server under Ubuntu Linux 6.06 (Dapper Drake). I've been able to create a vm to host freedos and to get it loaded and running. So far, so good. The reason I'm interested in running freedos is that I have a couple of old dos apps I want to run: Framework - from Aston-Tate Ge

Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos-user Digest, Vol 10, Issue 13

2007-03-23 Thread Gordon . Schumacher
"Jim Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Wed, 21 Mar 2007 14:59:35 -0500: # I sent an off-list warning to this user, but have not received a # reply. I am giving him(her?) until the weekend to fix it, then I'm # going to unsubscribe the sobyland user. Hehe, glad that someone's e-mail can go throu

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos installation on dos partition on linux system

2007-03-23 Thread Bonnie Dalzell
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Eric Auer wrote: Thank you for your replies. My main harddrive was set up this way: hda1 a fat 32 1/gig partition - no os in it hda2 - a hardfile for use with the x86 amiga OS emulator AMIthlon hda3 - ubuntu gnu/linux ext3 hda4 - linux swap the boot for the system is out of

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos installation on dos partition on linux system

2007-03-23 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Bonnie, I recommend to use a normal file, not /dev/fd0, to save the mbr. Of course you should put a copy of the file in a place where you can reach it if your Linux cannot boot from harddisk. To backup the mbr of the second harddisk, use /dev/hdb instead of /dev/hda, and so on. a / b are prima

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos installation on dos partition on linux system

2007-03-23 Thread tekno1911
You should backup your boot/mbr sector first to a blank floppy with following command: dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=1 because if after installing freedos on that dos partition lilo or grub dont come up next boot than you can restore it with dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1 -