On 3/20/26 1:49 PM, Sijmen J. Mulder via Freedos-user wrote:
Hi all,
Thought I'd share my experience trying T2603:
First in qemu-system-i386 running on a Raspberry Pi 400 (so, software
emulation):
- Whole experience was sluggish, right from the start. Every screen of
the installer would visibly build up top-to-bottom. To be expected
perhaps, considering the software emulation?
- First installation failed while copying FDMINES with an unclear
error.
- Recreated the virtual disk, manually created and formatted the
partition first, and then it went through without problems.
- FDIMPLES was unusably slow.
try fdnpkg16! :D it works quite fast and is cli based.
- Otherwise, worked great!
Then, on a Dell Inspiron 510m laptop:
- Installation went super smooth
- FDIMPLES still very slow, arrowing from one option to the next would
take a second or too. But not unusuable, and in the end I got my
packages installed.
FDNPKG16 works well please try it out it is included.
- Then installed Windows 3.11. Had to manually copy the lines from
AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS, and set PageOverCommit=1 because the
machine has 1G of memory (*1). But even after that starting Windows
would crash/reboot the machine.
- No other issues! Perfectly usable. SUDO worked too ;-)
*1: https://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/mailman/message/10099998/
Regards,
Sijmen
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