Hi, On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 6:25 AM, Jim Michaels <[email protected]> wrote: > > I don't know the format. apparently doing a dry run of a disk check is not a > good test of whether or not something is in the right format. vbox's latest > VM rejected them all. I don't understand this. I get errors converting from > RAW.
(EDIT: See below.) If all you want is to use FreeDOS under VirtualBox, you just mount the .iso as CD and boot and install like normal. So apparently that's the preferred way. AFAIK, there is no premade virtualization image file. (Maybe having one would be easier, but it seems like a redundant waste of space.) > if it were in RAW format, apparently none of the available raw/vdi/vhd/vmdk > formats work with virtualbox. I guess this came off of a mac. someone please > fix and get it in the right hard drive format vbox can use. thanks. Which VBox version are you testing with? It that particular format fully supported? Did that format work in previous versions? You may have to file a VBox bug report (or feature request). EDIT: Nope, see below. :-) > just what format is this in? I need to do some work. Actually, a quick search shows this, which is what I'm blindly assuming you're referring to (since you didn't say specifically): http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/unofficial/virtualbox/ freedos.img.zip 2012-Aug-01 15:57:37 3.5M application/zip readme.txt 2012-Aug-01 15:58:26 0.1K text/plain (quoting README.TXT): "From Kirk Strauser at http://honeypot.net/2011/10/11/making-dos-usb-images-on-a-mac/"; Apparently it's a (FD 1.0) "bootable USB flash drive image" tested with VirtualBox 4.1.4 (and has to be "installed", eh?, see his site: convert to raw, dd [OS X] to physical USB drive). He apparently used it to flash the BIOS on his server (go figure). > I also need to find a bootable floppy image for freedos. could someone help? > I could not find such a disk image on the freedos 1.1 iso. I thought I found > it before, but I guess I was wrong. Floppies are considered a dead technology. I'm not sure they are even manufactured anymore, at least by most companies (e.g. Sony). You can probably still find something, but it's far from the preferred and suggested medium. In other words, nobody cares, and that makes things much harder. USB is "teh futurez", hence why people prefer that (see RUFUS if you want to install FreeDOS to jump drives). http://rufus.akeo.ie/ Also, keep in mind that FreeDOS is very low on volunteers (AFAIK, the FD 1.1 distribution was entirely rolled by one dude, Bernd Blauw), so most people (myself included) who do spend a little time with it aren't exactly interested in supporting something that only 1% of users need. (I had some older unofficial floppy images that I barely had maintained, but to say it's very tedious is an understatement. And the thousands of little pieces just change too fast. So you're stuck with outdated stuff or constantly out of space or always trying to find a billion sources and dependencies as well as testing to make sure it all works. Making something simple is easy, but making something that is universally useful to most end users is not.) You'll presumably have to use an older floppy image (see below) or just install and make your own (via VBox, QEMU, etc). http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/unofficial/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments & Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
