The host machine will be more than capable, as I have installed virtual freedos on this in the past. It's a 9th gen core i7 with 32gb, (I nearly typed 32mb!) off ram but now I've had a chance to think about it I'll probably just do the floppy install, purely because disk swapping is fun!
I'll end this by saying I also got a surprise when the machine started working as I was convinced it had 4Mb of ram but it turns out that it's got 8 meg! On Tue, 29 Mar 2022, 23:00 dmccunney, <dennis.mccun...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 2:40 PM John Vella <john.ve...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > So, I've got the 486 computer working and am ready to install freedos > and wordperfect. > > > > I'm thinking there are a couple of advantages to installing onto a > virtualbox machine, then formatting the physical hard drive and copying the > contents over. > > > > It would be a lot quicker to install and I'd have a clean image if I > ever need to reinstall. > > What machine will VirtualBox be running on? If your VirtualBox host > machine can run it acceptably, you *may* have a plan. > > Getting FreeDOS working in VirtualBox can be non-trivial. Jim Hall and > others here can provide pointers > > > Is there an obvious flaw to my plan? > > If your main intent is a quicker install, it's likely to be faster to > just install FreeDOS and WP on the 486 on the bare metal instead of > creating an image in VirtualBox. (It will take the same time to do it > in VirtualBox, with the added overhead of getting it to run in > VirtualBox in the first place.) > > In the old days, when you got a new machine, you booted DOS from > floppy, formatted the HD from DOS with format /s (which copied the DOS > system files to the HD,)then removed the floppy, rebooted from the HD, > and carried on. > > That is likely still your best option. > > Personally, were I to install FreeDOS in VirtualBox or another virtual > machine, I'd do it because I wanted a full working FreeDOS > installation, and I didn't *have* an Old Skool machine to do a bare > metal install on. > > > John. > ______ > Dennis > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >
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