From 00cc29955242ba59552b4cc5d716c93e85afd978 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: davidegat <51516281+davidegat@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2022 15:11:52 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md --- README.md | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 294665c..ea2215d 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -77,7 +77,9 @@ Ok, we have choosiness in the installation process by Lotus, but also I failed s

What if BOCHS doesn't eat my image?

Try another way, hack into BOCHS by mounting on drive a the FreeDOS 1.3 Floppy Edition, in bochsrc set the boot drive with boot: a, reboot from a:, copy the system from a: to c: overwriting the existing FreeDOS system, stop the machine. Get back to bochsrc to modify again the boot order, and boot from c: once done to test it out. -You should have a better enviroment now with some drivers, and -fingers crossed- mount via bochsrc your own converted image, and even mount iso images as cdroms (see BOCHS documentation). +You should have a better enviroment now with some drivers, and -fingers crossed- mount via bochsrc your own converted image, and even mount iso images as cdroms (see BOCHS documentation).

+ Other method to exchange files
+ Put your desired files into a folder, create an ISO image with mkisofs and mount it with BOCHS (it must be upgraded withc cdrom driver, or launched via floppy edition).

On reMarkable

  • scp to reMarkable both dos.sh and startdos.sh on /home/root.
  • dos.sh a simple "app" for reMarkable, it uses the "simple" scripting language, if you didn't installed it in your previous geeky journeys, do it with:
    opkg install simple @@ -87,7 +89,7 @@ You should have a better enviroment now with some drivers, and -fingers crossed-
  • Season it as you like, I made a simple 123.bat file to launch directly Lotus, or you can add a command in your FDAUTO.BAT to autostart it.

    Very, very basic troubleshooting and infos

    -
  • BOCHS with FreeDOS is choosy, due to limitations both of BOCHS and FreeDOS (more on the last), it may be needed to use fdisk into your reMarkable DOS box, to create partitions, than load back the img to Virtualbox to exchange files betweeen you and your newborn reMarkaDOS
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  • BOCHS with FreeDOS is choosy, due to limitations both of BOCHS and FreeDOS (more on the last), it may be needed to use fdisk into your reMarkable DOS box, to create partitions, than load back the img to Virtualbox to exchange files betweeen you and your newborn reMarkaDOS. Mounting a regular ISO image should also work (See above).
  • FreeDOS in BOCHS doesn't eat disk images always the right way, it has to do with disk geometry, don't try to mount big images, it's DOS..
  • Once you run a full copy of FreeDOS on BOCHS you will be able to mount almost everything, cd images included... since then, you will have to struggle to make BOCHS eat your images :(
  • Lotus startup will be a little bit slow, depending on some BOCHS settins i found (see down). Tap two or three times -enter- and -space- and don't panic, just wait. Once run, I usually leave this in background, so tapping again the FreeDOS icon will bring it back immediatly when needed.