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roberts

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Posted: Mar. 04 2006,01:38

You are running Windows, then you are running Qemu. a virtual machine within Windows. Qemu has sandbox like restrictions, which you need to learn. Then within Qemu you are running DSL as a compressed image OS which has its unique features. Lots to learn when one is starting with this setup. But to answer your question. Yes. You setup Samba and create windows shares to talk between the machines. Use search button at top of this site and search for Samba within the DSL-Embedded section.

pr0f3550r

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Posted: Mar. 04 2006,13:13

Quote (brettdale @ Mar. 03 2006,15:17)

how can i mount a folder full of music from my windows desktop so i can play it in dsl embedded,

Unbelievable, but it IS possible, as long as you accept the fact that that folder is read-only.

A win directory can be mounted read-only on qemu as a virtual fat filesystem, I do that sometimes as a poor man's communication between win and qemu-dsl.

From: http://www.h7.dion.ne.jp/~qemu-win/HowToFloppyCdrom-en.html

"Virtual VFAT enables to access a host directory as a hard disk. When you set fat: in front of a directory name, you can use it as the hard disk. When your directory is myfolder, an example is as follows.

$ qemu.exe -L ../pc-bios -hda win2k.img -hdb fat:myfolder

Note: Directory path doesn't work well on Windows. You can set a directory name which is in a directory the program starts. ("myfolder" must be in a directory the program starts.)
It is READ-ONLY. fatrw: prefix doesn't work now.
MS-DOS (Windows 98 boot floppy) can't see files in the directory.

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EDIT: 7.3.2006 Lately I had problems with this configuration, see my post on the qemu forum

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THE QEMU FORUM: http://qemu.dad-answers.com/index.php

QEMU ON WINDOWS: http://www.h7.dion.ne.jp/~qemu-win/

How to use floppy, CD-ROM and hard disk - http://www.h7.dion.ne.jp/~qemu-win/HowToFloppyCdrom-en.html

How to use network - http://www.h7.dion.ne.jp/~qemu-win/HowToNetwork-en.html

brettdale

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Posted: Mar. 04 2006,14:11

cheers guys, i gave up on it, i decided its hard enough to learn linux without needing to learn qemu aswell so i downloaded the iso cd and im running it on the laptop with command dsl vga=mormal nolapic (an old compaq presario 700),,, how cool is DSL,, u DSL guru guys are gods, i have more questions but first ill read through the archives with the search function n then post them in a more relevant are, many thanks guys

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