[Freedos-user] FreeDOS Install on VirtualBox

2012-03-01 Thread nweissma
PROLEGOMENA: i'm a noob. kudos: your instructions are understandable, unlike others that i've grappled with (and lost). Many Thanks for Your Efforts. i was successfully following your instructions until http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/freedos/index.php?title=VirtualBox_-_Chapter_6

[Freedos-user] noob seeks to talk shop with someone in New York City

2012-03-01 Thread nweissma
i, a noob, am seeking a FreeDOS aficionado/hobbyist in New York City. -- Virtualization Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing

[Freedos-user] Installation Instruction Error

2012-03-01 Thread nweissma
https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/freedos/index.php?title=Install states: If your computer has no partitions with FAT filesystem yet, you will have to create one before you can install DOS. For example GPARTED which is included with many Linux distros and many Linux versions which can

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Install on VirtualBox

2012-03-01 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 4:41 PM, nweissma nweis...@verizon.net wrote: kudos: your instructions are understandable, unlike others that i've grappled with (and lost). Many Thanks for Your Efforts. i was successfully following your instructions until

Re: [Freedos-user] Installation Instruction Error

2012-03-01 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, There may indeed be bugs in GParted, we don't know. Long story short: to install DOS, you need to do this: fdisk, (reboot), format, sys. Make sure you at least minimally have KERNEL.SYS (akin to MSDOS.SYS, IO.SYS or IBMBIO.COM IBMDOS.COM) and COMMAND.COM, preferably something more useful

Re: [Freedos-user] Installation Instruction Error

2012-03-01 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Rugxulo, NWeissma, There may indeed be bugs in GParted, we don't know. Long story short: to install DOS, you need to do this: fdisk, (reboot), format, sys. Make sure you at least minimally have KERNEL.SYS (akin to MSDOS.SYS, IO.SYS or IBMBIO.COM IBMDOS.COM) and COMMAND.COM,

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Install on VirtualBox

2012-03-01 Thread Jim Hall
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 4:41 PM, nweissma nweis...@verizon.net wrote: PROLEGOMENA: i'm a noob. kudos: your instructions are understandable, unlike others that i've grappled with (and lost). Many Thanks for Your Efforts. i was successfully following your instructions until

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Install on VirtualBox

2012-03-01 Thread Jim Hall
I'll also add this: Do you really need to have networking to run FreeDOS? Chapter 6 of the installation instructions (http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/freedos/index.php?title=VirtualBox_-_Chapter_6) describe how to set up networking in FreeDOS, when using VirtualBox. The reasons to do

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Install on VirtualBox

2012-03-01 Thread Neal Weissman
i will attempt another install and do as you say: Which error message do you see when it hangs? What is the last line of text in the boot sequence before things stop? As a debugging step, try booting FreeDOS without drivers (using the boot menu.) FreeDOS should at least bring up a C:\

Re: [Freedos-user] Installation Instruction Error

2012-03-01 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 6:32 PM, Eric Auer e.a...@jpberlin.de wrote:    There may indeed be bugs in GParted, we don't know. Long story short: to install DOS, you need to do this:  fdisk, (reboot), format, sys. Make sure you at least minimally have KERNEL.SYS (akin to MSDOS.SYS, IO.SYS

Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS Install on VirtualBox

2012-03-01 Thread Rugxulo
Hi, On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 10:34 PM, Neal Weissman nweis...@gmail.com wrote: i will attempt another install and do as you say: Which error message do you see when it hangs? What is the last line of text in the boot sequence before things stop? As a debugging step, try booting FreeDOS