I have a machine who’s mission is to run FreeDOS. It will do this most of the time, but sometimes it would be nice to be able to get it connected to a modern network to transfer DOS files out to my ‘production machine’ If DOS is like Windows the system clock ticks local time, but usually Linux likes UTC time - so this may be an issue that needs resolving too.
UPDATE - For now I have Debian in multi-user mode. I have set Grub to remember what I chose last so reboots from FreeDOS are hands free after ctrl-alt-del (Just like if FreeDOS were the only OS here) I have set the clock in Debian to run on the local timezone too, Thanks over_clox. Please continue to recommend your favorite distro.
why not use FreeDOS to connect to the network directly?
I am still figuring out DOS networking.
Update - The on-board Ethernet is a Realtec of some sort
Ooh ooh! I know this! Alpine! I run this together with MS-DOS on my Pentium 3, but FreeDOS should be no problem too.
Yes, I think Alpine is very good for this purpose because it is very lightweight. Otherwise you can try Debian CLI
I had never tried it and was super happy after seeing how lightweight it was.
Is it possible to put freedos in a VM and pass through whatever it needs to be connected to? I assume there’s some piece of equipment it runs.
Oh, also this is not an industrial setting with a computer controlling some heavy equipment. This is a nostalgia lab. MSDOS was the thing when I was around 22 or so.
