Lab 5 ----- Resources (from csci251 home page) ---------------------------------- fdfullcd.iso Commands -------- Tasks ----- Install Free Dos on a disk. You will be prompted to install components from the following packages: The FreeDOS OS is split into 10 packages each pertaining to a particular aspect of the OS. They are as follows: 1. base - Essential DOS utilities which reproduce the functionality of MS-DOS 2. compress - Free file compression and decompression utilities (7zip, arj, bzip2, cabextract, gzip, tar, zoo ...) 3. driver - Free drivers for network cards and usb 4. edit - A collection of editors (emacs, vim, pg, setedit, ospedit) 5. games - A good choice of free DOS games - Doom, Solitare, BumpNJump, nethack, tetris... 6. gui - Gem Desktop (Very nice) 7. lang - Free compilers and assemblers (Pascal,C,Basic,assembler,Fortran, debuggers,make tool...) 8. media - Free multimedia applications (cdrtools, ogg vorbis, mpxplay,lame ...) 9. net - Networking programs (wget, VNC, SSH client, lynx, arachne, mail client, wattcp - a free TCP/IP stack for DOS). 10. util - Free file, directory and other utilities (fprot anti virus, locate, head, du, cal, dos32ax, tail, tee, 4dos, uptime ...) Make sure you install gem desktop, c compiler, and an editor. You need not install any networking software. If you would like to have a version of freedos that runs under VirtualBox that includes networking then please visit http://lazybrowndog.net/freedos/virtualbox/. Deliverables ------------ Boot FreeDos and execute the GUI. Note, I always ran fdisk on my disk before an install.