On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 3:22 AM, Someone <plu...@robinson-west.com> wrote: > I question whether TCP/IP is the best way to go in a DOS environment.
That depend on your needs. Been a member of the Thinstation Linux thin client team, I have all the lightweight Linux I could wish. My original need came from the need to BIOS upgrade a floppyless Ubuntu box. I ended up by adding the DOS flash program and the BIOS image to a Balder image, make an ISO of it and problem solved. Not very elegant. So I decided to explore if I could make a boot floppy with USB support so I could put the flash program and BIOS image on a writable device and not have to create a new ISO every time (not that it happens often, but now it got a pet project). Having reached this, I wanted more: the ability to download the flash program and the image directly with wget or even a text browser. This is a bit hard to accomplish without TCP/IP :-) I've put the network stack, applications and packet drivers on the floppy due to size restriction on the floppy. It isn't quite working yet, but I think I just need to put a bit more time into it. I see no fundamental obstacles now. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
