Chapter 1: Prepare a virtual machine for FreeDOS in VirtualBox
Chapter 2: Special settings for FreeDOS
Chapter 3: Connect the FreeDOS install CD
Chapter 4: Create a FreeDOS partition with Free FDISK
Chapter 5: Install FreeDOS
Chapter 6: Exchange files between host and guest
Bugs: Heat
Bugs: FreeDOS crashes at boot
Bugs: ICH9 chipset breaks networking
Bugs: Keyboard driver crashes
Bugs: Old bugs
NOTE: This guide is written for FreeDOS 1.1. Please update for FreeDOS 1.2.
Preparations
- Install VirtualBox (if you haven't already). It can be found here. If you use a GNU/Linux distribution as host, please install VirtualBox with your package manager (like yum, apt, aptitude etc.). Guest additions are not available for DOS guests, so the Open Source Edition of VirtualBox will do fine.
- Download FreeDOS. The FreeDOS installation file should be a CD image (with .ISO file extension). Save this to a permanent location on your computer.
Add a new FreeDOS virtual machine
- Click "New". The "New Virtual Machine Wizard" opens.
- Give your Virtual Machine a name.
- Select the amount of memory. The default of 32 MB is fine for me.
- Select the size of the virtual hard disk. The default of 500 MB is fine for me.
- Select the format of the virtual hard disk. VirtualBox uses VDI as default. If you use VHD instead, you are able to mount the image like an external disk in Windows 7 or later.
- Choose if the size of your disk should be dynamically allocated. FreeDOS works fine with that.
- Give the virtual disk a name. Default is to give it the same name as the machine.
- The new FreeDOS virtual machine is added to your list of virtual machines.
Continue with Chapter 2
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