--- Le jeu., 04 avr. 2024 23:45:33 -0400 Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user a écrit ---- > Information given at boot seems to say E: is the INSTALLDISK... but it is > really D: ... I don't know why. Oh, I know... I use to use a .iso file, but this time I use a .img file... so DESTDISK is C: , INSTALLDISK is D: and the E: cdrom drive is empty.
Also, I did began the installation like I said, bug change back to using the kvm command line. Because kvm is so much faster than qemu-system-i386... but even with kvm... installation took about 40 mins... which is longer than most Linux distro installations. I think in older version of QEMU, we would have used -enable-kvm ... but now there is a kvm command line that replace qemu-system-i386 or qemu-system-x86_64 ... So I guess it would make sense to download the bonus disk... and use that as a virtual DVD. So let me rewrite the instructions: (I think I am also correcting some errors in previous email) QEMU is a program found on Linux distributions, to emulate a computer. kvm is a special version of qemu, much faster, but need some stuff from the kernel to work. Download and extract https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/test/FDT2404-FullUSB.zip in FDT2404USB directory. Download and extract https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/test/FDT2404-BonusCD.zip in a temporary directory. Move T2404BNS.iso to the FDT2404USB cd FDT2404USB qemu-img create fdos.img 1000M DESTDISK=fdos.img INSTALLDISK=T2404FULL.img BONUS=T2404BNS.iso At install time, I present first INSTALLDISK, then DESTDISK: kvm -cpu 486 -name FreeDOS -machine pc-i440fx-4.2 -m 64 -drive format=raw,file=$INSTALLDISK -drive format=raw,file=$DESTDISK -audiodev pa,id=mysnd -device sb16,audiodev=mysnd -device adlib,audiodev=mysnd -machine pcspk-audiodev=mysnd -vga cirrus -display sdl -net nic,model=pcnet -net user After installation, I present first DESTDISK containing the installed FreeDOS, and then the BONUS disk as a DVD (cdrom): kvm -cpu 486 -name FreeDOS -machine pc-i440fx-4.2 -m 64 -drive format=raw,file=$DESTDISK -cdrom $BONUS -audiodev pa,id=mysnd -device sb16,audiodev=mysnd -device adlib,audiodev=mysnd -machine pcspk-audiodev=mysnd -vga cirrus -display sdl -net nic,model=pcnet -net user If kvm is not available use qemu-system-i386 instead. And if qemu-system-i386, use qemu-system-x86_64 instead. I believe qemu-system-i386 is faster for DOS than qemu-system-x86_64. You can now use fdimples command to add new programs from the bonus DVD. I hope this make it more usefull instructions! _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
