I used Magic ISO Maker ( Setup_MagicISO.exe) to create floppy and CD images to attach to the appliance and transfer downloaded files. I needed a way to make downloaded stuff available to the vbox appliance via floppy disk and CD-ROM images. The DOS VirtualBox appliance specs I used: 64 MB RAM, PIIX 3 chipset, PS/2 mouse, no I/O APIC, no EFI, 1 CPU, no PAE/NX, 32 MB video RAM, a Floppy controller, an IDE controller with a 512 MB fixed-sized (not dynamic) hard drive and a CD-ROM drive, SoundBlaster 16 audio card, bridged PCnet-FAST III network adapter, two serial ports and a USB 1.1 OHCI controller. It turns out a lot of folks have not only done this, but took pains to document what they did with a bit of trial and error, I now have a functional PC DOS VirtualBox appliance equipped with CD ROM and SoundBlaster 16 drivers, a Packet Driver for AMD PCnet-Fast III network adapter, the mTCP Suite of TCP/IP stack with client and server networking applications, and two DOS-based graphical web browsers - Dillo and Arachne. So I fired up Oracle VirtualBox and went to consult with The Great Search Engine. In all the time I have been playing with computers going back to when Winston Smith took on Oceania, I have never had an opportunity to try out networking and get on the internet from just DOS on a PC. DOS Web Browsers: Arachne (left) and Dillo
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