Re: [Freedos-user] Unable to install freedos in a VM

2011-06-13 Thread Bart-Jan Vrielink
On 06/13/11 22:28, Eric Auer wrote: >> Isn't the whole point of installing an OS that you end up with a partition? >> > It sounds very dangerous to modify the partition scheme > of your host operating system (e.g. Linux) while that is > running but has no influence on what is going on. So I

Re: [Freedos-user] Unable to install freedos in a VM

2011-06-13 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Bart-Jan, > Isn't the whole point of installing an OS that you end up with a partition? It sounds very dangerous to modify the partition scheme of your host operating system (e.g. Linux) while that is running but has no influence on what is going on. So I strongly suggest to NOT use DOS to re

Re: [Freedos-user] Unable to install freedos in a VM

2011-06-13 Thread Bart-Jan Vrielink
On 06/13/11 17:59, Bernd Blaauw wrote: > Op 13-6-2011 17:28, Bart-Jan Vrielink schreef: > >> Isn't the whole point of installing an OS that you end up with a partition? >> What I did was create a new VM in Virtmanager, type MSDOS, with a small >> hard disk and booting from the freedos CD image.

Re: [Freedos-user] Unable to install freedos in a VM

2011-06-13 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Op 13-6-2011 17:28, Bart-Jan Vrielink schreef: > Isn't the whole point of installing an OS that you end up with a partition? > What I did was create a new VM in Virtmanager, type MSDOS, with a small > hard disk and booting from the freedos CD image. What I would expect is > an installer guiding me

Re: [Freedos-user] Unable to install freedos in a VM

2011-06-13 Thread Bart-Jan Vrielink
On 06/13/11 14:54, Eric Auer wrote: > Hoi Bart-Jan, > > >> I'm trying to install Freedos in a KVM Virtual Machine (Debian Stable) >> using the base iso. However, it seems to halt at a "- InitDisk" message. >> How do I get past this point? I've tried different hard disk sizes, as >> small as 256

Re: [Freedos-user] Unable to install freedos in a VM

2011-06-13 Thread Eric Auer
Hoi Bart-Jan, > I'm trying to install Freedos in a KVM Virtual Machine (Debian Stable) > using the base iso. However, it seems to halt at a "- InitDisk" message. > How do I get past this point? I've tried different hard disk sizes, as > small as 256MB, to make sure I would not hit any limit, b

[Freedos-user] Unable to install freedos in a VM

2011-06-13 Thread Bart-Jan Vrielink
Hello, I'm trying to install Freedos in a KVM Virtual Machine (Debian Stable) using the base iso. However, it seems to halt at a "- InitDisk" message. How do I get past this point? I've tried different hard disk sizes, as small as 256MB, to make sure I would not hit any limit, but that seems n