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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