Update: I tried again and now it shows "Non-system disk or disk error".
On Sat, Jul 5, 2025, 03:28 Lutalli <lutall...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm happy to hear that I don't have to worry about VASK being used by the > OS post install! That was a big concern for me. > > Alright this is what I have done so far: On VirtualBox, I created a > virtual DOS machine, set the hard disk to HDD (I chose this because all the > tutorials about PockDOS I've read used HDD as the format of virtual disk > images), then installed FreeDOS 1.4 using the floppy edition successfully. > > (Even though it was on my laptop, it took a small while. And indeed > decompression is CPU intensive - The installation even made my laptop's > fans spin a lot. I can image if I actually did it on my Jornada 720, it > would take a LONG time.) > > Now I have an HDD file, roughly 20MB, that supposedly has FreeDOS 1.4 > installed. I copied the HDD file to my mobile device. Then I made a virtual > disk redirected to that HDD on PocketDOS, and let it boot from that disk. > However it shows "No Operating System Present"... At the moment I have no > idea why. On VirtualBox, I can still run FreeDOS without any problem. > >>
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