Hi Doug, thank you for the feedback as it is always appreciated. The guide is definitely not for noobs and I’ve updated the intro to reflect that. Like home computers of the 1980s, the Pi has limited resources. So I was forced to use the text terminal and disable the GUI to improve the performance of the DOS emulation.
What kind of trouble you were having in getting rpix86 to run a second time (I assume after a reboot)?
Did you know Raspbian is a slimmed down port of Debian Linux created specifically for the Raspberry Pi? So the guide was written for those with some skill in Linux but were maybe new to or unfamiliar with DOS, rather than the other way around. Linux is a very rewarding environment to learn once you get past its learning curve.
For file transfers I found the `wget http://example.com/somefile.zip` download command was the simplest way to get software onto rpix86. Because to be honest, there are so many possibilities for transferring files that I figured it was best to let the reader to work out their own solution.