On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Tiago O. de Almeida <toacyanide...@yahoo.com.br> wrote: > Are there any hints to install FreeDOS inside a Qemu box? I'm trying this > right now, but the installation process is damn slow. This is the Qemu > command line: > > qemu -cdrom ~/.qemu/fdbasecd.iso -hda ~/.qemu/freedos.img -boot > order=c,once=d -m 31M -k pt-br -soundhw sb16 -M pc -smp 1 -cpu pentium -name > FreeDOS -sdl > > I've tried several values to -cpu, including qemu32/64, pentium, 486, > core2duo; and also raise the -m value up to default (128M).
QEMU is a full emulator, but sometimes emulators can run quite slow. I'd just let the install process take as long as it needs to; you'll only need to do that once. It should be fine after that. If you have the option, you can also do a "manual install" of FreeDOS by unzipping each of the install packages (which are just specially-crafted zip files) into the C:\FDOS directory. This won't install the kernel in a bootable way, but I think you can run SYS from the installation CDROM. This should be faster, albeit a more manual process. -jh ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
