Great! This should be an article on the wiki replacement doc site :)
--W -- |\_ | .\---. / ,__/ / /Wolf <wolf+...@bergenheim.net>_ On Tue, Oct 1, 2024 at 4:20 PM Jim Hall via Freedos-user < freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > The same person who asked me about how to install FreeDOS in QEMU also > asked about how I copy files to/from my FreeDOS disk image, using Linux. > Here's a copy of my reply, for anyone else who wants to do that: > > >> > > I forgot to show how I access the disk image using *guestmount*. I'm > running some things in my new FreeDOS 2410 virtual machine, so I'll show > you using my 2409.qcow2 disk image instead. > > First, set up a directory where you'll access the disk image. Since I'm > accessing my 2409.qcow2 disk image, I'll create a directory called 2409: > > $ *mkdir 2409* > > > Now use *guestmount* to access (-a) the 2409.qcow2 disk image, using the > first disk partition (called "sda1" using Linux terminology) as the mount > point (-m), and mount it on the 2409 directory: > > $ > *guestmount -a 2409.qcow2 -m /dev/sda1 2409* > > > And that's it! You can access the 2409 directory to copy files into (or > out of) your disk image. You can use the command line (like I do) or use > your graphical file manager; it doesn't matter, as far as your file manager > is concerned, it's just a directory. Here's an *ls* command to show that > it works: > > $ *ls 2409* > APPS COMMAND.COM <http://command.com/> DEVEL FDAUTO.BAT FDCONFIG.SYS > FREEDOS KERNEL.SYS > > > Don't forget to unmount it when you're done: > > $ *guestunmount 2409* > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >
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