


The Costa GUI v1.7.0 a DOS GUI with built in theme and icon editor and several apps (calculator, text viewer, games).HWiNFO v6.22 system information utility designed for detection of hardware.Supports FAT, FAT32, NTFS partitions and most writable USB, IEE1394 drives, ATAPI CD/DVD drives without special drivers. Image v3.57 Disk image backup and restore program.ZeroFill 1.09 Writes zeros on the empty disk space for the selected hard drive.Now part of SHSUCD, a suite of programs dealing with the CD-ROM. SHSUCDX v3.09 MSCDEX replacement uses only 6K resident can be unloaded.Packet Drivers Collection for DOS a collection of DOS drivers and utilities for various network cards.DOStodon a Mastodon client for DOS which relies on DOjS to run.DOjS 1.10.0 a Javascript coding environment for DOS featuring integrated editor, graphics and sound output, mouse/keyboard support.After the install completes, we don't require the ISO any longer and can boot directly into our installed image by running: qemu-system-i386 -m 32 -hda dos.New/Updated Links (updated February 10 2023) Selecting the virtual drive we created aboveįreeDOS should open in a new window and the install wizard in exactly the same way as the Virtualbox method above.There are quite a few parameters in the command. Now we create our virtual machine in a single swoop by running: qemu-system-i386 -cdrom FD12CD.iso -m 32 -hda dos.img -k en-us -rtc base=localtime -soundhw sb16,adlib -device cirrus-vga -boot order=d We can do this by typing: qemu-img create dos.img 500M Now we need to create a virtual hard drive to install FreeDOS. First, install QEMU by running: sudo apt install qemu The steps are quite similar to the above method, however, it can be accomplished in just a few terminal commands. Similar to Virtualbox, QEMU is an open source hypervisor that can run FreeDOS as a guest operating system. Once completed, unmount the virtual machine by running: sudo umount /Path-of-your-choice Now copy your favorite programs and files to your virtual machine. Now run the following command to mount the device: sudo mount /dev/nbd0p1 /Path-of-your-choice Replace in the command above with the path to your virtual machine. Now run the following commands: sudo modprobe nbdīy default, your VirtualBox directory should be in your home folder. To install this run the following in a terminal: sudo apt install qemu The workaround was using the qemu-nbd command. The DOS shutdown command, in case you may have forgotten is in fact, shutdown.įreeDOS's method of mounting a drive didn't seem to be too consistent. Before transferring files to your virtual machine, make sure to shut it down completely and for good measure, quit Virtualbox while you're at it.
