Hello Joseph Norton,
I’m trying to install FreeDOS with QEMU, and I get as far as formatting the hd, then, the installation says it can’t find the package files. I used the example in the Using FreeDOS Ebook, but, I did have to create the “freedos.img” file, which was not covered.
Did you run the following command to create freedos.img (as suggested by the e-book)? qemu-img create freedos.img 200M The idea is that freedos.img will act as _the_ virtual "hard disk" which you will install FreeDOS _to_. And the installation medium which you install FreeDOS _from_ is simply the CD-ROM image (such as FD12CD.iso) you downloaded earlier. If you start QEMU the right way, the "hard disk" will have drive letter C: and the CD-ROM image will have drive letter D:, and you will be booting the virtual machine from the CD-ROM image to do the installation. My suspicion is that you were starting QEMU in such a way that it was erroneously formatting the installation medium. (Alternatively, there is a different set of instructions at Wikibooks, which I have been using, for installing FreeDOSin a QEMU VM: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/QEMU/FreeDOS .) Thank you! -- https://github.com/tkchia _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
