Re: [Freedos-user] Ré : Installing freedos to virtualbox them copying dice contents to an actual computer

Hi Eric! I do have the img images for wordperfect, which I have transferred to floppy disk. The pc doesn't boot from cd, in fact I can't even get the bios to recognise the cd drive, as the hard drive parameters have to be manually entered. I have an isa sound Blaster awe 64 value, with ide

Re: [Freedos-user] Ré : Installing freedos to virtualbox them copying dice contents to an actual computer

One thing you can try is to remove the IDE HDD drive from the 486, connect it to a USB drive adapter, then use VirtualBox/qemu/et al. to install FreeDOS to it. You can use an adapter like this one ( https://www.ebay.com/itm/124411032918). Should have a JMicron chip in it which all modern OSes

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing freedos to virtualbox them copying dice contents to an actual computer

On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 2:40 PM John Vella wrote: > So, I've got the 486 computer working and am ready to install freedos and > wordperfect. > > I'm thinking there are a couple of advantages to installing onto a virtualbox > machine, then formatting the physical hard drive and copying the

Re: [Freedos-user] Ré : Installing freedos to virtualbox them copying dice contents to an actual computer

Hi! I think wordperfect for DOS came on floppies, yes. And you can connect ATAPI CD/DVD drives to typical 486 computers. There also are special boot loaders which you can load from floppy to continue booting from CD/DVD in case your BIOS does not yet support direct booting from CD/DVD :-)

Re: [Freedos-user] Installing freedos to virtualbox them copying dice contents to an actual computer

The host machine will be more than capable, as I have installed virtual freedos on this in the past. It's a 9th gen core i7 with 32gb, (I nearly typed 32mb!) off ram but now I've had a chance to think about it I'll probably just do the floppy install, purely because disk swapping is fun! I'll end

[Freedos-user] Installing freedos to virtualbox them copying dice contents to an actual computer

Hi, So, I've got the 486 computer working and am ready to install freedos and wordperfect. I'm thinking there are a couple of advantages to installing onto a virtualbox machine, then formatting the physical hard drive and copying the contents over. It would be a lot quicker to install and I'd

[Freedos-user] Ré : Installing freedos to virtualbox them copying dice contents to an actual computer

Activé mar., 29 mars 2022 14:38:06 -0400 John Vella écrit Hi, So, I've got the 486 computer working and am ready to install freedos and wordperfect. I'm thinking there are a couple of advantages to installing onto a virtualbox machine, then