I was intending to create my own ISO from the .VHD file I intend to make,
making my own distribution as usual, which includes the freedos stuff, and my
own tools.
maybe I am fighting a losing battle here...
I need a commercial C++11 compiler for DOS for a number of reasons. my last
look at openwatcom left me underwhelmed, it doesn't even have a fully working
string class. sad. :-(
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Jim Michaels
jmich...@yahoo.com
j...@renewalcomputerservices.com
http://RenewalComputerServices.com
http://JesusnJim.com (my personal site, has software)
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IEC Units: Computer RAM & SSD measurements, microsoft disk size measurements
(note: they will say GB or MB or KB or TB when it is IEC Units!):
[KiB] [MiB] [GiB] [TiB]
[2^10B=1,024^1B=1KiB]
[2^20B=1,024^2B=1,048,576B=1MiB]
[2^30B=1,024^3B=1,073,741,824B=1GiB]
[2^40B=1,024^4B=1,099,511,627,776B=1TiB]
[2^50B=1,024^5B=1,125,899,906,842,624B=1PiB]
SI Units: Hard disk industry disk size measurements:
[kB] [MB] [GB] [TB]
[10^3B=1,000B=1kB]
[10^6B=1,000,000B=1MB]
[10^9B=1,000,000,000B=1GB]
[10^12B=1,000,000,000,000B=1TB]
[10^15B=1,000,000,000,000,000B=1PB]
>________________________________
> From: Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com>
>To: Technical discussion and questions for FreeDOS developers.
><freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
>Sent: Friday, January 17, 2014 10:33 AM
>Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] freedos.img - spoke too soon
>
>
>Hi,
>
>On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 6:25 AM, Jim Michaels <jmich...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> I don't know the format. apparently doing a dry run of a disk check is not a
>> good test of whether or not something is in the right format. vbox's latest
>> VM rejected them all. I don't understand this. I get errors converting from
>> RAW.
>
>(EDIT: See below.) If all you want is to use FreeDOS under VirtualBox,
>you just mount the .iso as CD and boot and install like normal. So
>apparently that's the preferred way. AFAIK, there is no premade
>virtualization image file. (Maybe having one would be easier, but it
>seems like a redundant waste of space.)
>
>> if it were in RAW format, apparently none of the available raw/vdi/vhd/vmdk
>> formats work with virtualbox. I guess this came off of a mac. someone please
>> fix and get it in the right hard drive format vbox can use. thanks.
>
>Which VBox version are you testing with? It that particular format
>fully supported? Did that format work in previous versions? You may
>have to file a VBox bug report (or feature request). EDIT: Nope, see
>below. :-)
>
>> just what format is this in? I need to do some work.
>
>Actually, a quick search shows this, which is what I'm blindly
>assuming you're referring to (since you didn't say specifically):
>
>http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/unofficial/virtualbox/
>
>freedos.img.zip 2012-Aug-01 15:57:37 3.5M application/zip
>readme.txt 2012-Aug-01 15:58:26 0.1K text/plain
>
>(quoting README.TXT): "From Kirk Strauser at
>http://honeypot.net/2011/10/11/making-dos-usb-images-on-a-mac/";
>
>Apparently it's a (FD 1.0) "bootable USB flash drive image" tested
>with VirtualBox 4.1.4 (and has to be "installed", eh?, see his site:
>convert to raw, dd [OS X] to physical USB drive). He apparently used
>it to flash the BIOS on his server (go figure).
>
>> I also need to find a bootable floppy image for freedos. could someone help?
>> I could not find such a disk image on the freedos 1.1 iso. I thought I found
>> it before, but I guess I was wrong.
>
>Floppies are considered a dead technology. I'm not sure they are even
>manufactured anymore, at least by most companies (e.g. Sony). You can
>probably still find something, but it's far from the preferred and
>suggested medium. In other words, nobody cares, and that makes things
>much harder. USB is "teh futurez", hence why people prefer that (see
>RUFUS if you want to install FreeDOS to jump drives).
>
>http://rufus.akeo.ie/
>
>Also, keep in mind that FreeDOS is very low on volunteers (AFAIK, the
>FD 1.1 distribution was entirely rolled by one dude, Bernd Blauw), so
>most people (myself included) who do spend a little time with it
>aren't exactly interested in supporting something that only 1% of
>users need. (I had some older unofficial floppy images that I barely
>had maintained, but to say it's very tedious is an understatement. And
>the thousands of little pieces just change too fast. So you're stuck
>with outdated stuff or constantly out of space or always trying to
>find a billion sources and dependencies as well as testing to make
>sure it all works. Making something simple is easy, but making
>something that is universally useful to most end users is not.)
>
>You'll presumably have to use an older floppy image (see below) or
>just install and make your own (via VBox, QEMU, etc).
>
>http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/unofficial/
>
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