Hi, On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 4:46 PM, Robert Moler <rbmo...@verizon.net> wrote: > > I was delighted to discover FreeDos, because I have an old Music DOS > data base that I've been using since 1986. It runs in XP but not in Win > 7. So I loaded the virtual box and then FreeDos. except that it never > finished loading after reaching the point in the instructions (End of > Chapter Five) where there is the warning about UIDE taking a long time > to load. > > I get the line > > Kernel: allocated 46 Diskbuffers + 24472 Bytes in HMA > > It had not changed in 45 minutes or even over night when I started over > and got the same result. > > Any suggestions?
VirtualBox is overkill, but if you have VT-X, enable it (if not already). Try running DOSBox (emulator, see http://www.dosbox.com ). Normally it's only for games, but since you say you've been using it since 1986, it shouldn't be too complex a program. Otherwise, dunno, try using RUFUS to install FreeDOS to (empty!) USB stick, and see if it runs natively there (cold boot). If even that doesn't work, I dunno. (I'm hesitant to recommend installing Linux under VBox just for DOSEMU.) P.S. Latest UIDE is http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/ellis/drivers-2013-11-21.zip (but you may have to enable networking in FreeDOS under VBox to grab that directly, e.g. use "ftp ftp.ibiblio..." instead). See http://lazybrowndog.net/freedos/virtualbox/ . ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sponsored by Intel(R) XDK Develop, test and display web and hybrid apps with a single code base. Download it for free now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=111408631&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
