Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS running on Linux

2015-11-23 Thread Georg Potthast
> Em 20/11/2015 17:52, "Jim Hall" escreveu: >> >> I, for one, would be very interested to see a text-mode "small" Linux >> that boots up an instance of DOSEMU instead of login on the first >> available virtual terminal. (I'd put a regular Linux login on the >> second VT.) >> >> >> jh >> I got suc

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS running on Linux

2015-11-23 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 8:52 AM, Alain Mouette wrote: > On 22-11-2015 20:45, Rugxulo wrote: >> I also added "c:\rugxulo" as host folder, so lemme try and see if >> reading from that works: yes! > I usualy don't use a host mount for C: as it can interfer with the > booting process and DOS's ut

[Freedos-user] FDNPKG v0.99.3

2015-11-23 Thread Mateusz Viste
Hi all, I released FDNPKG v0.99.3 today. This is a purely bugfix release, I'd highly recommend upgrading any older version. FDNPKG v0.99.3 [23 Nov 2015] - [fix] files zipped uncompressed are extracted correctly (v0.99.2 regress), - [fix] closing file descriptors on install failure (no risk of fs

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS running on Linux

2015-11-23 Thread Geraldo Netto
Hi Alain/All, How are you doing? On 23 November 2015 at 12:43, Alain Mouette wrote: > That may sound nice, but it misses something that I consider essencial: > It has to carry all hardware drivers so that it can work on any machine ... > Does anyone know how to do that? Actually, it depends on

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS running on Linux

2015-11-23 Thread Alain Mouette
On 22-11-2015 21:19, Rugxulo wrote: > I forgot to mention that you're using an older kernel and maybe an > older shell too (0.84-pre XMS_Swap and not 0.84-pre2 XMS_Swap). Hmmm, > but that's your translated version (which you lost sources for), so I > can probably sympathize with that. I honestly do

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS running on Linux

2015-11-23 Thread Alain Mouette
On 22-11-2015 20:45, Rugxulo wrote: > I also added "c:\rugxulo" as host folder, so lemme try and see if > reading from that works: yes! I usualy don't use a host mount for C: as it can interfer with the booting process and DOS's utilities IIRC D: is default for that > Doom works without sound,

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS running on Linux

2015-11-23 Thread Alain Mouette
That may sound nice, but it misses something that I consider essencial: It has to carry all hardware drivers so that it can work on any machine ... Does anyone know how to do that? And there is another point that is important for me: I intend to use FreeDOS along with other Linux things. This is

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS running on Linux

2015-11-23 Thread Geraldo Netto
Hi All, Well, Maybe we could use buildroot [1] to create such minimalist distro Buildroot is very flexible and allows to embed X Last time i played with it, i was able to create a distro in ~14MB (squashfs) with python and X I know that squashfs is not feasible for older machines, but we can tune