Re: [Freedos-user] freedos under paralles on x86 mac

2007-04-02 Thread Jim Hall
I don't have Parallels anymore, but to debug this I tried to install FreeDOS 1.0 using VMWare. I hit the same problem you found: after using XFDisk to partition the drive, reboot, and then you see invalid operating system. The reason is that the BIOS presented by VMWare (or in your case,

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos under paralles on x86 mac

2007-04-02 Thread Alain M.
Yes, I used the same trick, it's exactly like a REAL machine ;-) Alain Jim Hall escreveu: I don't have Parallels anymore, but to debug this I tried to install FreeDOS 1.0 using VMWare. I hit the same problem you found: after using XFDisk to partition the drive, reboot, and then you see

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos under paralles on x86 mac

2007-03-28 Thread Jim Hall
For a while, I had an Intel-based Mac at my work, and booted FreeDOS regularly under Parallels. In fact, I tested/debugged the install process for FreeDOS 1.0 under Parallels. I didn't have any issues. -jh On 3/27/07, Bonnie Dalzell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: anyone gotten freedos

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos under paralles on x86 mac

2007-03-28 Thread Bonnie Dalzell
On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Jim Hall wrote: JH For a while, I had an Intel-based Mac at my work, and booted FreeDOS JH regularly under Parallels. In fact, I tested/debugged the install JH process for FreeDOS 1.0 under Parallels. I didn't have any issues. JH JH -jh JH I just got access to a Mac osx

Re: [Freedos-user] freedos under paralles on x86 mac

2007-03-28 Thread Bonnie Dalzell
OK I took notes this time. Try to install real freedos (not run it inside linux inside parallels) Parallels has you pick options Picked DOS and then under that Other DOS Gave it 192 MB of memory and a gig for its harddrive. All this is happening in the paralles window on the mac desktop. Used