Hi Robert,
as far as I remember, XT machines are 16 bit, so Ubuntu cannot run on that processor and on that amount of RAM. Regarding FreeDOS, I am not sure whether you tried to install it from the USB stick to the USB stick or to the harddisk of the computer: Some BIOSes make sticks look as if they were harddisks... For older computers, I would recommend to use boot floppy images to make a boot floppy. What exactly was the situation in the 3rd attempt, when Virtual Box was hanging? As far as the graphics card is concerned, any VGA card should be ok but I am not sure whether older cards are, as there might be "graphical" steps during installation. The floppy way again is more suitable for older hardware. Partitioning / formatting are among the steps where things can go wrong (see USB stick thing above) as are modern drivers (USB, UIDE, network, graphics and memory extensions a la EMM386 or HIMEM). For those, you may have to manually edit autoexec or config to adjust for very old or very new computers. I assume working directly from floppy / USB can avoid some of the driver issues. In particular if you can skip the driver load step at boot. Of course performance etc would be better once installed to harddisk, but for some tasks, it might just not be worth the effort. Regards, Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
