Hi Paul,
Just a side note about installing using the FullUSB.
One of my DOS test machines is an Acer One netbook with a 1Ghz Atom processor
and an ancient 30Gb SSD. This machine has no CD/DVD drive. It does boot from
the FullUSB when written to a flash drive. It takes about 5 minutes from start
to finish (boot, partition, reboot, install, reboot) to do a Full install
without sources.
That machine will also boot from a USB floppy drive.
Another side note…
You could create a second partition on the USB stick and copy the files from
the Bonus CD to to that.
Although it can only use one at a time, modern versions of FDIMPLES can use
different local package repositories.
You could have different repos on different drives. Or, even multiple ones on
the same drive in different paths.
When FDIMPLES starts, it checks the current drive for a repository in one of
the standard paths. If it does not find one, it searches existing drives C:
through Z: for a repository.
You can also tell it to check a specific drive (and/or alternate path) for a
repo at startup.
For example,
C:\>fdimples e:
C:\>fdimples d:\repo-1
etc.
:-)
Jerome
> On Apr 4, 2024, at 11:45 PM, Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user
> <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>
> Hi! Especially to Lunduke fans having their "second part" of DOS week...
> about one year and a half after first part.
> So from April 3 to April 10 2024.
> I am not a paid subscriber to lunduke.locals.com and just observing it from
> far.
>
> I decided to retry FreeDOS after not using it for too many months.
>
> And as I do in this time... I search back the messages I have previously left
> on the list to help me know how to launch qemu...
> as I don't think the wiki have an article about it...
> But it has been a long time... and I am seeding a new message for the next
> time(s).
>
> So FDT2404 is out: "
> ###############################################################################
> FreeDOS 2404-Test ("FreeDOS T2404")
> ###############################################################################
>
> Warning: This is a FreeDOS development build and is for testing purposes.
> It may exhibit behavior vary different from a release build and may not be
> suitable for regular use. For general use, please consider using the latest
> release build available at http://freedos.org
> "
>
> And can be found at:
> https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/test/readme.txt
>
> This time, I have chosen to use
> https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/test/FDT2404-FullUSB.zip
> rather than the usual
> https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/test/FDT2404-LiveCD.zip
> Mostly, I find a disk image, a more simple and logical format that a CDROM or
> DVD image format (iso file).
>
> So with an iso file I would use -cdrom image.iso... but the FullUSB.zip
> contains an .img file, that I will use the same
> qemu parameter as the hard drive destination image: -drive
> format=raw,file=$DISK where DISK=T2404FULL.img
>
> Steps goes about like this:
> Download and extract
> https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/test/FDT2404-FullUSB.zip
> in FDT2404 directory.
> cd FDT2404
> qemu-img create fdos.img 1000M
> DESTDISK=fdos.img
> INSTALLDISK=FDT2404FULL.img
>
> At install time, I present first INSTALLDISK, then DESTDISK:
> qemu-system-i386 -cpu 486 -name FreeDOS -machine pc-i440fx-4.2 -m 64 -drive
> format=raw,file=$INSTALLDISK -drive format=raw,file=$DESTDISK -audiodev
> pa,id=mysnd -device sb16,audiodev=mysnd -device adlib,audiodev=mysnd -machine
> pcspk-audiodev=mysnd -vga cirrus -display sdl -net nic,model=pcnet -net user
>
> After installation, I present first DESTDISK containing the installed
> FreeDOS, and then INSTALLDISK (not so much needed anymore):
> qemu-system-i386 -cpu 486 -name FreeDOS -machine pc-i440fx-4.2 -m 64 -drive
> format=raw,file=$DESTDISK -drive format=raw,file=$INSTALLDISK -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
>
> Information given at boot seems to say E: is the INSTALLDISK... but it is
> really D: ... I don't know why.
>
> Games seems to work often better than it did in my memory.
> Was it on VirtualBox that color palette was wrong?
>
> Also... Magic Mirror game seems to start... and I did not remember to have
> seen it working before.
>
> For me DHCP seems not really working... but I run this on Vanilla OS ...
> with apx run $command .... and so I think maybe it does not work because the
> virtual machine
> is running inside the Ubuntu sub-machine (an other virtual machine as far as
> I know).
>
> So it seems to be the gist of what I wanted to say.
>
>
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