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

On Thu, 4 May 2006 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> sindi keesan wrote:
> > > > I got my FreeDOS image from the qemu site
> >
> > This one did not work, C: is empty.
>
> Why don't you make your own image?  For example,
> to make a bootable DOS image, insert a bootable
> DOS floppy in drive A: and do the following:

> -------------------------
> dd if=/dev/fd0 of=dos.img
> -------------------------

This will produce a 1.47MB image, right?

> Then activate qemu and do:
> -----------------
> qemu -fda dos.img
> -----------------

This boots from a floppy disk image on hard drive?
Can I make some image like the one I downloaded which will boot with qemu 
dos.img from the hard drive?

I think we downloaded Chinese DOS 7.1 as a disk image or two images - can 
they be used directly without the first step?

How would I make something 10MB in size so I could add programs to it?  Do 
I make a larger empty image with dd and then copy dos.img to it before 
using qemu?


I am running linux off scsi drive in two computers and last I checked, 
freedos does not support scsi so would not work there.


> Cheers,
> Steven