I haven't used Clipper so I'll have to let someone else debug that one for you.
However, I *sometimes* have had problems running programs that require a lot of I/O from the mapped drive. Not sure if QEMU just gets confused with a lot of I/O on the mapped drive, because it's basically emulating a FAT drive over a directory. Maybe that's the cause of the hang here? You might try copying (with XCOPY) the program files from the mapped drive to your C: drive, and run it from the C: drive. (Another way to do this is to put everything into a zip file, then just use UNZIP to extract that zip file onto your C: drive.) On Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 12:22 PM kaye n <guik...@gmail.com> wrote: > Jim Hall, thanks a lot for suggesting QEMU. I added a line similar to > your > > -drive file=fat:rw:/home/jhall/dos > > and I was able to access the desired directory in an NTFS partition of the > hard drive. > > However, in that directory is an old Clipper program and I could not get > it to run in the virtual Freedos. > > In drive C: there is an autoexec.bat and an fdconfig.sys file. > > I edited autoexec.bat by adding this line: > SET CLIPPER=F99 > > and I edited fdconfig.sys by adding this line: > FILES=99 > > It hanged and I had to close the QEMU window by clicking the X at the > upper right corner of the screen. > > PS: I don't know which key to press for firing my weapon in the Freedos > game Wing. > > Thank you for your time and thank you for making Freedos! > > On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 8:23 PM Jim Hall <jh...@freedos.org> wrote: > >> Hi. My answer is in 2 parts: >> >> 1. FreeDOS cannot read NTFS. FreeDOS can read variations of the FAT >> filesystem, including FAT32. But cannot read NTFS or extfs. >> >> 2. An operating system running inside a PC emulator like VirtualBox >> cannot access the direct hardware of the machine. It can only access the >> virtual machine resources. So you cannot access the Linux disk directly, in >> this case. >> >> Most PC emulators have some way to make a directory (such as your Linux >> $HOME directory and/or a directory like /mount/ntfs) available to the guest >> operating system (FreeDOS) and make it look like a FAT drive. For example, >> I use QEMU and I make a directory called "dos" in my Linux $HOME available >> to FreeDOS *as though it were the D: drive* using this command line >> option: >> -drive file=fat:rw:/home/jhall/dos >> >> But I don't use VirtualBox, so I don't know how to do it there. I'm sure >> there's a menu item for it. >> >> >> >> On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 6:43 AM kaye n <guik...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> My apologies. Wrong choice of words. I am aware that this is not a >>> paid support line. >>> >>> Anyway, here's my question. >>> >>> I have a desktop computer running a Linux distro. In this LInux distro I >>> have installed VirtualBox, and in this VirtualBox I have installed Freedos. >>> >>> The virtual Freedos is running fine. However I can't figure out a way >>> to allow the virtual Freedos to access the different partitions of the hard >>> drive (for example an NTFS partition that contains my personal data), as >>> well as any USB flash drive. >>> >>> Is this impossible if the Freedos installation is only virtual? >>> >>> Thank you for your time. >>> >>> On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 7:34 PM HTV04 . <htv04ru...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> What’s your question? >>>> >>>> On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 7:30 AM kaye n <guik...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hello? Anyone there? >>>>> >>>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Freedos-user mailing list >> Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >> > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >
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