Hi guys, right, fractint for dos will also run in freedos, because freedos is a dos ;-). and it will run faster than in dosbox, because dosbox simulates a cpu while freedos can run on your real cpu. you can boot it from cdrom, diskette, harddisk, or usb stick. the latter is easier with a modern bios, but with an old bios, it can be a bit complicated.
> > 1. Is Fractint likely to run faster under Freedos? > > 2. Can I boot directly to Freedos from a CD instead of > running an emulator like Vmware or Virtual PC under Vista? Note that there are also more free emulators: Bochs and Qemu. Dosbox is also an emulator, but a special one, as it can also emulate DOS itself - which makes it faster than running a full DOS inside an emulator, but still slower than running a DOS on your real hardware. > The best way would be to install FreeDOS on some (few megs...) FAT16 > partition, but booting from a livecd is... Actually a full install of freedos 1.0 can easily take 100 mb or more, as we include a lot of 3rd party free software for DOS :-). In addition, it is not good to use "ancient style" FAT partitions smaller than 33 MB. Last but not least, making a partition for DOS can be hard because Vista will probably take all your space. Luckily, Linux installers can shrink Windows partitions (as long as it is shut down and not only sleeping) without data loss. After you install Linux (and while you are at it, create a primary DOS partition as well, or just create only a DOS partition and skip installing Linux even though it is great...), Windows will just boot up, scratch its head (run scandisk), shrug, and will run again on the shrunk partition :-). So maybe you want to start with a Livecd or diskette :-). Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
