-=> Maurice Kinal wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

 TL> what were you trying to install FreeDOS onto?  A Qemu/KVM VM?  Or
 TL> bare metal?

 MK> Heh, heh.  The last time I tried to install a DOS as the default OS was
 MK> a 486 with a 2G ide that the bios couldn't deal with.  Linux (lilo) had
 MK> no issues booting it up but only if I installed lilo on a root
 MK> partition rather than the mbr.  That was back in the mid 90's or so.

Yes, strange disks.

 MK> The freedos that I used to compare with the the virtuallized arm32,
 MK> approximating a respi, was on a modern x86_64 system and I seriously
 MK> doubt it will install on there as a root/boot option - not that I tried
 MK> but I already know that it won't given the hardware, especially the
 MK> RAM.

Hmm, I don't seem to have all of the information.

 TL> I didn't draw any conclusions, except that it's best to use native
 TL> processors, where possible. :)

 MK> Agreed.  That is why I am patitiently waiting to hear the right thing
 MK> before jumping onto the raspi bandwagon.  I am thinking I want a pure
 MK> 64 bit with the ability to custom compile linux kernels wrt aarch64.
 MK> If I am not confident that I can pull that off, which as of this
 MK> writing I am not, then I am not really interested in taking the plunge
 MK> myself.  It will still be interesting to hear about.

Not sure the relevance here, since the ARM64 can natively run ARM32
instructions - apples and oranges.


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