Re: [Freedos-user] trying to installa freedos on a VM

2008-04-22 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Tony, I didn't see the Use Base option on the menus in the Full CD Well I meant use the fdbasecd.iso CD. But you can also unselect all packages outside the base category, for example. After making a partition in Vmware 6- and writing the partition table I rebooted my VM. Then you did

Re: [Freedos-user] trying to installa freedos on a VM

2008-03-09 Thread john s wolter
Jim, I've been putting a measure of time into the Xen environment. I've learned a few things, I'm an amateur as of now. The gist of what I know is that to run FreeDOS as a VM in Xen you need QEMU as a virtual hardware bubble. I believe Xen can run QEMU as a VM and FreeDOS inside that. I

Re: [Freedos-user] trying to installa freedos on a VM

2008-03-06 Thread john s wolter
I've been putting a measure of time into the Xen environment. I've learned a few things, I'm an amatuer as of now. The gist of what I know is that to run FreeDOS as a VM in Xen you need QEMU as a virtual hardware bubble. I believe Xen can run QEMU as a VM and FreeDOS inside that. I believe

Re: [Freedos-user] trying to installa freedos on a VM

2008-03-05 Thread Jim Hall
I've run FreeDOS in a PC emulator lots of times, including VMWare. It runs fine. The only thing I like to point out to people is that VMWare (or whatever emulator) really is acting like a PC. That means the BIOS settings are probably set to a default. The BIOS in the emulator is probably set to

[Freedos-user] trying to installa freedos on a VM

2008-03-04 Thread Marcelo Nolodigo
I'm trying to install freedos on a VMWARE 6 virtual machine. Is there some caveats regarding it ? TIA Marcelo - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008.

Re: [Freedos-user] trying to installa freedos on a VM

2008-03-04 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, in general: Install from the base CD first. The full CD contains packages which need internet access during install, and that can often be tricky. You can also skip exactly those packages in the full CD, but to get started, just use base :-). The Wiki has a list of network related packages