Re: [Freedos-user] Unable to install freedos in a VM

2011-06-13 Thread Eric Auer
Hoi Bart-Jan, I'm trying to install Freedos in a KVM Virtual Machine (Debian Stable) using the base iso. However, it seems to halt at a - InitDisk message. How do I get past this point? I've tried different hard disk sizes, as small as 256MB, to make sure I would not hit any limit, but

Re: [Freedos-user] Unable to install freedos in a VM

2011-06-13 Thread Bart-Jan Vrielink
On 06/13/11 14:54, Eric Auer wrote: Hoi Bart-Jan, I'm trying to install Freedos in a KVM Virtual Machine (Debian Stable) using the base iso. However, it seems to halt at a - InitDisk message. How do I get past this point? I've tried different hard disk sizes, as small as 256MB, to make

Re: [Freedos-user] Unable to install freedos in a VM

2011-06-13 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 13-6-2011 17:28, Bart-Jan Vrielink schreef: Isn't the whole point of installing an OS that you end up with a partition? What I did was create a new VM in Virtmanager, type MSDOS, with a small hard disk and booting from the freedos CD image. What I would expect is an installer guiding me

Re: [Freedos-user] Unable to install freedos in a VM

2011-06-13 Thread Bart-Jan Vrielink
On 06/13/11 17:59, Bernd Blaauw wrote: Op 13-6-2011 17:28, Bart-Jan Vrielink schreef: Isn't the whole point of installing an OS that you end up with a partition? What I did was create a new VM in Virtmanager, type MSDOS, with a small hard disk and booting from the freedos CD image. What I

Re: [Freedos-user] Unable to install freedos in a VM

2011-06-13 Thread Bart-Jan Vrielink
On 06/13/11 22:28, Eric Auer wrote: Isn't the whole point of installing an OS that you end up with a partition? It sounds very dangerous to modify the partition scheme of your host operating system (e.g. Linux) while that is running but has no influence on what is going on. So I