Hi Jim, > On Jun 17, 2024, at 7:42 PM, Jim Hall via Freedos-devel > <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > Also: > > I wrote a "how-to" article about FreeDOS on the Pocket386 for > Both.org, but I also copied/pasted this into a wiki article on the > FreeDOS wiki: > > https://wiki.freedos.org/wiki/Pocket386 > > Basically, it's these steps: > > 1. transfer the CF card to my Linux box > 2. boot the install LiveCD in QEMU, using '-hda /dev/sda' to use the CF card > 3. exit to DOS, do these steps manually: > 4. FDISK (then reboot) > 5. FORMAT C: > 6. SYS C: /FORCE:CHS > 7. SETUP ADV > 8. do the rest of the install in the installer, but skip the step to > transfer system files > 9. transfer the CF card back to the Pocket386 > > > If you want to skip all of that: this afternoon, I reinstalled FreeDOS > T2406 on this laptop, using a "Full installation including > applications and games" (with source code). I've shared an image of my > CF card here: > https://ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/pocket386/ > > That's not really a "distribution" per se, but I couldn't think of a > better place to store a 328MB file. Might move it later. > > > Now that I've reinstalled the Pocket386, my next step is to test every > application and game from FreeDOS T2406. If you're curious how an app > performs on FreeDOS on real hardware ('386-SX at 40 MHz, 8MB memory) > I'll share notes in a follow-up thread. > > So far, I can report that FED is a bit slow to start up (just when I > thought it had hung, it came up) but runs fine after that. > > Jim
I suspect anything that is either CPU or I/O intensive is going to be slow. Does that machine have a NIC and did you get it working under FreeDOS? > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
