On Dec 17, 2007 11:05 AM, Eric Auer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris wrote: > > I've been following FreeDOS on and off for a while, thinking it would > > be fun to write a version of InterLNK in my non-existent free time. > > Alas, it will have to wait. > > Good idea! Original interlnk did the following: A driver on the server > side kept more or less the whole server busy, and transferred raw disk > sectors to/from the client.
Right. The MS version worked with the hard and floppy drives, and IBM's version even worked with the CD drive. I think a FreeDOS version should work with any mounted drive. > > My current project is to use FreeDOS to get a minimal Ubuntu > > installation on my ancient ThinkPad 750P: 5GB disk, 36MB RAM > > Pretty small RAM-wise :-). But you could run Linux 2.2 based > distros on 12 to 32 MB RAM more or less. Dunno if you have a > chance with a modern but light Xubuntu ;-). A minimal Ubuntu install has no GUI. That should be pretty lightweight. I can add XFCE later, if I can get X to work at all. > > make a FreeDOS boot floppy with card and socket services and > > a driver for my PCCard SD card reader [and then loadlin/linld] > > Sounds okay but you could also boot from a floppy Linux distro > or a DOS network floppy and then download the file via network... > I think SD readers are not really trivial to support, as they > are less standardized than PCMCIA/CF or USB storage...? With the minimal work I did (basically loading DISKDRV.SYS and seeing it didn't work automatically), I'm now trying to get a stack of floppies to work with the 9MB Ubuntu mini ISO, and it crashes at startup. Not a topic for this list, however. Chris ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
