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Hi,

On Feb 6, 1:18=A0pm, "Matthew Petricone" <strstr DOT  DOT  DOT  AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
>
> It's probably not what you are used to. Under DOS in virtual box you
> probably do not have access to your actual hard drive. While there is a
> shared folder system, it dos not work under DOS.

I think?? (but never tested) that MS "NET USE" or "NET SHARE" or
whatever gobbledegook might work under VirtualBox, but I have no idea
how.

EDIT:   http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=3D30&t=3D33357

> I think the easiest way is
> to make a ISO of the data you want, and mount that under virtual box as a
> CD, then copy it to your VHD.
>
> Hope that helped,
> Matt

DOSEMU on Linux would be easier (in theory). However, in the interest
of facilitating this line of thinking (though again I haven't tried it
lately), you can get a DJGPP build of MKISOFS.EXE from here:

http://alexfru.narod.ru/os/fat/fat.html

And here's a rough example of its use (hopefully self-explanatory):

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I used the new MKISOFS command line suggested in our Wiki:

mkisofs -R -D -V "FreeDOS 1.0" -o ~/fdbasecd-remastered.iso \
-b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat -no-emul-boot \
-boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table /tmp/fdbasecd-contents/

...to make an ISO of fdbasecd of FreeDOS 1.0 which now does
boot on my PC. The previous version just got stuck when it
tried to load ISOLINUX. Which was, uhm, not so convenient.

Eric

PS: The isolinux/isolinux.bin file in my tmp directory had
to be writeable to make the "remastering" work, so I had to
make a real tmp copy of the old cd, not just mount it...
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