Installing freedos using dosbox

[james collins]

Hello,

I have been trying for awhile to install freedos on my MacBook pro.

I partitioned my hard drive and formatted the partition for fat 32. I
have freedos 1.0 the full cd version. And I have been trying to use
dosbox(an dos emulator on my Mac) to make freedos bootable.

I am running into problems because I can't boot from a cd in dosbox, I
can boot from a virtual floppy. Which I did using an older version of
freedos. I ran into problems with installing and booting.

Does anyone know if I could convert the freedos .iso file to virtual
floppies? So I could use dosbox to boot into dos?

[H-Man]

Install Virtualbox into OSX as a host, then install FreeDos as a Guest.

If you want a true dual boot system, best of luck to you, I personally
wouldn't even try as you will get a better result running in a virtual
machine.

--
HK

[H-Man]

Looking into this a bit deeper, it is possible to do in DosBox, it's just
not really easy. What you'd need to do is create a hard disk image if an
installation and then boot that in DosBox. I suspect you'll continue to
have difficulties using DosBox in this way as it really isn't intended to
"host" another OS. It is intended AFAIK, to be it's own host.

I'd bet you'll be far happier using a complete virtual environment like
VirtualBox. This is assuming you have an Intel box. If you have a pre-Intel
box, you may be limited to the FreeDos HD images you can find on line.
Looks at the emmulator sites for these like at VMWare, VirtualBox,
VirtualPC, Bochs, QUEMU, and the likes.

Most contain bootable disk images of some version of FreeDos.

--
HK