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mc4ndr3 on May 15, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: The weird Hewlett Packard FreeDOS option

FreeDOS is known to not run well inside of virtualization. A proper host install would be far more capable.

lproven on May 18, 2022 | [–]

That is not true.

In fact, if you just boot FreeDOS 1.3 in VirtualBox, you'll see it detect the virtual NIC, load a TCP/IP stack and acquire an IPv4 address, then report it.

It is mostly developed and run inside VMs these days, AFAICS.

mcculley on May 15, 2022 | [–]

But a proper host install is not possible on modern hardware.

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