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Clueless Newbee ; Please Advise And Direct (Emulation)

posted by mceric, Germany, 05.07.2021, 21:04

> - Step-1: (Now Complete) Purchase a 32 GB Thumb drive
>
> - Step-2: Put all my VirtualBox files on this thumb drive.
>
> - Step-3: Install FreeDOS on this thumb drive.
>
> Please Advise and direct me on Steps 1 and 2.
> Anything immediately stupid in my plans ?
It would be a lot faster to keep your VirtualBox
files on your harddisk or SSD. Why an USB drive?

> My Goal Right Now: A totally fake x86 DOS running
> in a window on my windows screen.
You can do that with VirtualBox, but you probably
get better speed and compatibility with DOSBOX.

You do not even have to install FreeDOS in DOSBOX,
it has a pre-installed DOS. But you can install
your own FreeDOS if you want.

For both VirtualBox and DOSBOX, you will probably
configure it to open your FreeDOS install CD ISO
and fake "boot" from it for that purpose. Your C:
drive can be either a diskimage or a directory
in DOSBOX, but must be a diskimage for VirtualBox.

A diskimage is basically one large file with all
the raw data of a simulated harddisk or other disk.

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