Hi, On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 4:19 AM, Eric Auer <[email protected]> wrote: > > nice wiki about installing FreeDOS in virtualbox :-) Actually > people can use a lot of it for installing FreeDOS in any VM, > or on any computer which has a completely empty harddisk yet.
There are too many emulators to test. I'm not opposed to any of them, but for me personally, it seems easier to just stick to VirtualBox or QEMU. (Not counting obviously useful alternatives meant for totally different audiences like DOSEMU or DOSBox.) > http://www.freedos.org/wiki/index.php/VirtualBox_-_Chapter_8 BTW, that http://johnson.tmfc.net site is long abandoned (since 2012). You are encouraged to grab the latest drivers from iBiblio or Jack's DropBox. > makes me wonder if anybody has yet convinced the VirtualBox > people to patch their PCI BIOS and whether other VM have the > same problem or have simply been free of it all the time... You mean that old bug? No idea, but Jack's README.TXT still lists "/E" as a workaround. Okay, so I did a brief check under VBox 4.3.26, which is where I have FD 1.1 installed. Although I had updated my local UIDE previously, but here I just updated again to "March-05" (latest on iBiblio). A quick xgrep only shows AUTOEXEC.BAT: "DEVLOAD /H /Q %dosdir%\BIN\UIDE.SYS /D:FDCD0001 /S25". So no "/E" in sight, and no apparent slowdown. I don't know where in the VBox bug tracker that this issue is found. All I could find from a quick search is this: https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/9302 I assume it's fixed by now?? > Also, I wonder if somebody could make a PDF of all chapters > in one file, in case some die-hard wants to install on their > only computer and cannot read the wiki while installing ;-) Ask Ulrich. Dunno if he'd have to manually convert to some type of markup that supports PDF output. I'm not big on PDFs, honestly. They have some useful features but are usually overkill. > I would also appreciate a text version, with text mock-ups > of the screenshots, but that is probably asking too much. It's far from impossible, but most of us don't have the energy to do it. Too much work for too little gain. >> Just install FreeDOS (via RUFUS) to your USB drive: >> >> http://rufus.akeo.ie/ > > Good idea, that will give you a bootable USB drive from > which you can install DOS to your harddisk manually. Any > recommendations regarding which FreeDOS disk to Rufusize? > Are our ISOs all suitable? Do Ruffidea floppy work, too? I haven't tried lately. I'm pretty sure it supports the full FD11SRC.ISO , though (or else defaults to extremely bare / minimal built-in setup.) No, I don't think it supports copying from floppy .img files. Not sure how that would work. There are various tools that can extract files from such .img files, though, e.g. GNU Mtools or 7-Zip's 7z.exe . So as long as you get a bootable system, you can just copy over necessary files. RUFFIDEA is too old and quirky. I know you helped me with that back in the day, but it's not useful anymore. Nobody honestly ever used it except me. (Your main appreciation for it seems to be that it had almost all of "BASE", right?) And I was too disorganized to (constantly) fix it, esp. for trying to update every little piece and keep sources up-to-date. Honestly, the spiritual successor to that is MetaDOS (esp. unreleased 0.2), but I still need to clean it up a lot and compare to other floppy .img files to make sure nothing is missing. (Although it's more or less just offloading everything to "download as needed from network" by default, except for minimal installation tools and a very few other necessities.) Though I still want to organize a bit better instead of putting all links in one big file. It would indeed be nice to have separate files for "BASE" and "UTIL" and a few other things instead of just randomly lumping everything together. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
