Re: [Freedos-user] Tried test build T2603

[victoria c. <sp...@jo...>]

On 3/20/26 1:49 PM, Sijmen J. Mulder via Freedos-user wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Thought I'd share my experience trying T2603:
>
> First in qemu-system-i386 running on a Raspberry Pi 400 (so, software
> emulation):
>
>   - Whole experience was sluggish, right from the start. Every screen of
>     the installer would visibly build up top-to-bottom. To be expected
>     perhaps, considering the software emulation?
>   - First installation failed while copying FDMINES with an unclear
>     error.
>   - Recreated the virtual disk, manually created and formatted the
>     partition first, and then it went through without problems.
>   - FDIMPLES was unusably slow.
try fdnpkg16! :D it works quite fast and is cli based.
>   - Otherwise, worked great!
>
> Then, on a Dell Inspiron 510m laptop:
>
>   - Installation went super smooth
>   - FDIMPLES still very slow, arrowing from one option to the next would
>     take a second or too. But not unusuable, and in the end I got my
>     packages installed.
FDNPKG16 works well please try it out it is included.
>   - Then installed Windows 3.11. Had to manually copy the lines from
>     AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS, and set PageOverCommit=1 because the
>     machine has 1G of memory (*1). But even after that starting Windows
>     would crash/reboot the machine.
>   - No other issues! Perfectly usable. SUDO worked too ;-)
>
> *1: https://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/mailman/message/10099998/
>
> Regards,
> Sijmen
>
>
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