Hi Jim,
> 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. Blasphemic idea: Use symlinks to move the disk image to a RAMDISK of Linux during DOS install, then close QEMU, move the disk image back to real (SD or MMC) disk and start using DOS the normal way? A 200 MB disk image is not much compared to Raspberry RAM sizes. By the way, which cache and buffers settings does the installer use? Would it help if FreeDOS had a FASTOPEN to cache directory entries? SD cards indeed often have very low "I/O per second" because they are rather optimized to write a few big files, like pics or video, not many small file modifications in a short period of time. Regards, Eric _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
