Hi All A few weeks ago I used qemu and FreeDOS 1.3rc5 to fdisk and format 2 partitions on a USB3 mounted 128GB ssd.
sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdc Disk /dev/sdc: 111.79 GiB, 120034121728 bytes, 234441644 sectors Disk model: SV300S37A12 Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 33553920 bytes Disklabel type: dos Disk identifier: 0xa641679a Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/sdc1 * 63 2104514 2104452 1G 6 FAT16 /dev/sdc2 2120580 234436544 232315965 110.8G c W95 FAT32 (LBA) blkid /dev/sdc1: SEC_TYPE="msdos" LABEL_FATBOOT="FREEDOS" LABEL="FREEDOS" UUID="2F1C-12E7" BLOCK_SIZE="512" TYPE="vfat" PARTUUID="a641679a-01" /dev/sdc2: LABEL_FATBOOT="FREEDOSDATA" LABEL="FREEDOSDATA" UUID="3764-12E8" BLOCK_SIZE="512" TYPE="vfat" PARTUUID="a641679a-02" It booted fine after installing rc5. I didn't really test anything other than confirming rw access to C: and D: and ro the cdrom after booting. My concerns then were mounting both partitions rw in linux and booting FreeDOS 1.3rc5 in qemu with a graphics screen. When I saw that FreeDOS 1.3 final was available I immediately installed it from the live cd. First install completed but was unusable, second install was fine. Before each install, format C: /U /Q /S from FD13LIVE.iso FDinstall.sh #cd /home/bob/FreeDOS/QEMU_FreeDOS sudo qemu-system-i386 -name FreeDOS -boot d -drive file=/dev/disk/by-id/wwn-0x504b454e574f4f44,format=raw,index=0,media=disk -cdrom FD13LIVE.iso -display curses FD.sh #cd /home/bob/FreeDOS/QEMU_FreeDOS sudo qemu-system-x86_64 -name FreeDOS -boot c \ -drive file=/dev/disk/by-id/wwn-0x504b454e574f4f44,format=raw,index=0,media=disk \ -drive file=/dev/disk/by-id/wwn-0x504b454e574f4f44-part2,format=raw,index=1,media=disk \ -usb -device usb-tablet \ -display curses #SUCCESS all 5 modes boot FreeDOS 1.3 final So far, I have succeeded with graphics, but not with mounting C: rw in linux. FDSU.sh #su - #cd /home/bob/FreeDOS/QEMU_FreeDOS qemu-system-x86_64 -name FreeDOS -boot c \ -drive file=/dev/disk/by-id/wwn-0x504b454e574f4f44,format=raw,index=0,media=disk \ -drive file=/dev/disk/by-id/wwn-0x504b454e574f4f44-part2,format=raw,index=1,media=disk \ -usb -device usb-tablet \ -device VGA,edid=on,xres=1280,yres=1024 #SUCCESS all 5 modes boot FreeDOS 1.3 final Note: /dev/disk/by-id/wwn* is the same, regardless of bus or port. I'm on a 4K tv, so I have to stretch the qemu window and View|Fit to use it. I realise it is not recommended to run qemu as root, but it was necessary in order to use physical partitions. The nice thing is that I can move the USB3 ssd to other computers. One more thing, openSUSE requires the drive to be hotplugged for qemu to find it.
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