Talk:QEMU/FreeDOS

Newbie, here, finding some ambiguity in the main page as it describes installing FreeDOS and qemu. It would help newcomers to understand what's happening to:

A. Describe where each element is, for example the .iso file downloaded from the freedos.org web site is on a cd in the CDROM drive?? Is the "image" created by qemu a file on a hard drive (hda | sda) or does it need a partition prepared in advance?

B. Explain what a .img file is:  a real extension on a file or a place holder for a .iso file?

C. State if the .img entity can be directed to a specific partition, for example if /home is on a separate disk.

96.241.68.208 (discuss) 00:46, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
 * I tried to clarify A and B in the article. It says "follow the menus to partition" which means that partitions are created in that step. Before that, no partitions exist.
 * Even if /home is on a separate disk, do not ever attempt to use that as the image for QEMU! The installer will delete everything on the disk and it shouldn't be used by two operating systems at the same time since that will break the disk. It is probably possible to use a real disk (,  as long as your computer's usual operating system isn't using it for anything at the moment, but it sounds unnecessarily complex and might require you to run QEMU as root. --Stefan2 (discuss • contribs) 00:57, 1 February 2012 (UTC)