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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Mon, 1 May 2006, David Moberg wrote:

> 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'.

The image is what I downloaded from the qemu site to my hard drive.  It 
was about a 1.5MB bz2 images which I expanded with bunzip2 to 10MB.
I don't have that size floppy drive.

It booted with 'qemu freedos.img' but I don't know how to access any files 
with it and C: claims to be empty, unlike dosemu.
> 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.

Tomorrow.  We got that computer to boot consistently and find its CD-ROM 
drive by reinserting the DIMMs.

> > 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

I typed
qemu freedos.img

How do I access files on the hard drive or floppy drive from qemu?
C: appears to be empty.  A: is not accessible (or the floppy disk may 
have been defective, I suppose).

James said he tested Wordperfect for DOS in Freedos under qemu.  How?
Sindi