FreeDOS 1.0 FINAL Installation in VMware Workstation 6

[Utfooseball79]

how long does it take to configure the dependencies i have had it on for 13 hours and it hasn't moved

[jesus0zero0]

minimal requisites for install freedos???

please :)

[dinac1986]

Mater ti jebem kretensku.Niti se ništa ne vidi niti išta govoriš kretenu jebeni.Dijete sa downovim sindromom bi napravilo bolji video.

[buildingmovies]

@serialkissersband yes. BUT the install is tough if you have freedos on a mac, like me. On a PC, no worries

[meg4lod0n]

What's with the LAN settings and Shared folder ????

Why did you post this Video without Shared folder / LAN / Browser ?

[100zee]

Where do you get this????????????/

[clandestine1976]

I`m new to freeDOS (I like how well it works in my old Notebook), is there a way to change the font, color, etc of the prompt and make it all permanent?  Thank you!

[clandestine1976]

I tried freeDOS and is very nice, I just need the driver for the USB Port, so I can use my portable HD...not sure how to do it

[clandestine1976]

I did some research and it looks we need to download the driver, I haven`t been able to fix this issue, let me know if you have better luck...

[DaVince21]

Depends, what's the partition type? If it's FAT, NTFS or a CD/DVD drive, FreeDOS will support it. Not sure about Linux partitions.

[Swift2001]

I'm trying to install it and then put spinrite on it, so I can run it on my Mac's hard drives. Possible?

[ruediix]

FreeDos is pretty much the same as any standard EMM-Enchanced task-switching class DOS. (Basically this includes most famously MSDOS 6 series and PCDOS 6 series.)

It supports drive assignments, IDE/ATAPI, standards DOS TSR API drivers. Pretty much what you'd expect from it's class of DOS.

It will support most standard hardware. As of drives it supports floppy drives, hard drives and CDROM drives, but currently lacks built in support for USB, unless you have BIOS legacy support for them.

[11111lololol11111]

The installer is actually really annoying if you are using the full distro. It'll install a few programs and then stop and prompt to ask whether you want to install the next handful of programs, and repeat this more than ten times. Any sane installer tries to minimize the amount of time you have to spend waiting for the computer to ask you more questions. It would have made a lot more sense to collect all the information at the start and then install without user involvement.

[buildingmovies]

@11111lololol11111 true, but i installed on a efi mac with no probs, with mac and win already installed

[Bramborail]

Very nice ! :)

[TaiFerret]

Can you run DOS-based Windows on it? Like Windows 3.11 or maybe even Windows ME?

[cary123]

you can run windows 7 if you want to.

[thecdmarker]

look on wikipedia. you can run it on windows 1.0 to 3.11. win95 to ME doesnt run on freeDOS:(

[1gamester]

can you help me install freedos on vmware

i am having problems

it displays this message: invalid operating system, when it reboots

[cary123]

same here

[Skajter1901]

Can some1 pls answer? can u dual boot FreeDOS? or doese it overwright my no being system - Windows?

[metasuperhyper]

u CAN dual boot pretty much any OS. buat if yuou doant hav experiance in duel booting yu miight overwright your excsistin os - Windows

[gmags06]

I agree, VMWare ROCK!!!!! :)

[Rattler5150]

VMware rocks

[Dalem50005]

In case you didn't notice, DOS stands for Disk Operating System, so the actual name for this operating system would be FreeMS-DOS... and besides, VMware sucks!

[metasuperhyper]

Why would it be FreeMicrosoft-DiskOperatingSys­tem? Whats wrong with FreeDiskOperatingSystem?

[Dalem50005]

The purpose of FreeDOS is to basically be the same as MS-DOS, so my name would be more correct.

[Vyggy]

it aims to be MS-DOS /compatible/, not MS-DOS. A little like ReactOS, it tries to be Windows compatible, not Windows itself.

[HaloSpartanG13]

@Vyggy And like ReactOS, it fails. I tried it once. It was so awesome! I got random errors on my screen, and it was flooded with errors. Until I pressed the reset button, and installed 95.

[leodime]

Cool. I should put this to use on my old IBM running Windows ME. Are there any graphical shells for this yet or is it just plain text DOS for right now?

[asams12]

there is openGEM(still being actively developed)

and S.E.A.L.(out of development)

but as always google is your friend