On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 10:09 AM Jim Hall <jh...@freedos.org> wrote: > [..] > I have two suggestions for you: > > (1) > Your "hda" image file is different in the two commands. You created a hard > disk image named dos.img but you tried to reference a hard disk image named > freedos.img. Does the freedos.img image file exist? Try re-running the > qemu-system-i386 command with the dos.img image file you created in your > earlier qemu-img command. > > (2) > You have an extra parameter to define a floppy disk image named FLOPPY.img. > Does this image file exist? How did you create it? Try re-running the > qemu-system-i386 command without the floppy drive defined. You don't need it > anyway for the install. > > > However, neither of my two suggestions would point to the installer being > unable to find the installation packages. But I'd try these steps anyway to > see if that fixes it. If it's still broken after that, we can try to debug > further. >
I have two other quick thoughts that I'll add as (3) and (4) (3) I remember something that another user had reported problems installing FreeDOS on the new Raspberry Pi (model 4?) using the same QEMU command line I wrote about in the article. Sounds like there's a difference in the new Raspberry Pi that needed a new QEMU option? I can't remember the details, and a quick search in the freedos-user email list archives didn't locate the discussion thread I remembered. But maybe someone else here will remember and be able to point to the right discussion thread. [However, you said you are doing this on Raspberry Pi model 3, and that's the same model I have. I have the Raspberry Pi model 3+.] (4) When you are finally able to start the installation, be prepared for the install process to take a looooooooooooooong time. This is because installing all the FreeDOS packages requires a lot of disk I/O to the virtual freedos.img drive. And unless you bought a top-of-the-line SD card for your Raspberry Pi, the SD card's I/O speed isn't very fast. The installation takes a very *very* long time. But once you install FreeDOS, things are mostly fine after that. I think only a few games were noticeably slow to start after that. Booting and running FreeDOS, and running most DOS applications, was fine. Jim _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
