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["David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT gmail.com>]

sindi keesan wrote:
> > qemu -fda freedos.img

When I wrote the directions, I assumed that you would use a floppy
disk image. If the image file is an ISO9660 CD image, change 'fda' to
'cdrom'.

> >From the CLI in VT1:
>
> qemu freedos.img (in the directory where it resides)
> got me to a C:\>
>
> but the keyboard is not working properly.
> space bar = n
> number keys at top do nothing
> qwert produces 7890-
> asdfg gives uiop[
> Enter key gives t, shift is c. Ctrl is y tab is 6 caps lock m right Ctrl
> Home u backspace  backspace is 5.

I have not tested with SW91 SDL or with the 10MB FreeDOS image. Please
try the BL3.4 image and let us know if you have the same problem.

> C:  no files
> a: Dir
> Drive Not Ready
>
> Trying to mount it after this in linux gives lots of I/O errors in sector
> 0 and X has crashed (to a blinking cursor) and I had to power off and this
> computer will only boot once a day.

Mount what? If you did not specify any real drives (e.g. /dev/fd0) on
the command line then there should be no problem.

David