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Re:The weird Hewlett Packard FreeDOS option by mc4ndr3 on Sunday May 15, 2022 @04:54PM (#31391020)
FreeDOS is known to not run well inside of virtualization. A proper host install would be far more capable.
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Re:The weird Hewlett Packard FreeDOS option by lproven on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @06:48AM (#31421180)
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.

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Re:The weird Hewlett Packard FreeDOS option by mcculley on Sunday May 15, 2022 @05:03PM (#31391106)
But a proper host install is not possible on modern hardware.
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