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[James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

On Tue, 2 May 2006, sindi keesan wrote:

> I got my FreeDOS image from the qemu site and they said it was modified
> from a Bochs image.  Do you want to try it?

I think I got mine from here: http://free.oszoo.org/download.html .  Try 
out that one and see how it works.

> > You can make a virtual a:\drive available by booting with -fda
> > /path/to/floppy.img where floppy.img is a bootfloppy image you've created.
>
> The BOCHS/qemu .img.bz2 unpacks to 10MB so can't be used that way.  Which
> DOS image do you have and where from?

See above.  I think it will work this way.  It may take some further 
explaining, but I believe it will work to emulate a floppy on which files 
can be inserted to get them into the qemu instance you're runnig.  But 
first, get yourself a working qemu FreeDOS.

James

> A floppy-disk sized DOS image won't give me enough space to run programs
> in along with the files I am working on.

That's not what I was talking about.

> I don't have DC.

About a 50kb download. Search DC-SK.

> Can you try using the freedos image at the qemu site with WP and see if
> they both work for you (in X, to fix the keyboard problem, and besides WP
> needs Alt-F keys).

I'll see if I can get to it later today.  For now, why not try the 
freeoszoo version I linked to above?

James