Kerl wrote:

Hi. How can I install freedos within Dosbox?

DOSBox provides it's own DOS kernel and command interpreter. It's intended to run a wide variety of games directly without additional drivers.

Dosbox is mainly for games so I thought of FreeDos along with HX dos extender in order to run certain win32 console programs which abort on Dosbox. I wanted to try this on desktop before doing it on some dosbox for Android.

You'd either need real hardware or hardware emulation (like Bochs, Qemu, VirtualBox, VMWare, KVM, Virtual PC, etc).

Thanks. I've found this tutorial explaining how to do it with Bochs : http://www.transmissionzero.co.uk/computing/i … sdos-in-dosbox/
Since the program I want to run has also a linux version, maybe an easier solution could be booting some linux distro like pup4dos from dosbox ?

I'd say use what you're familiar with. Be aware that Bochs does not use any hardware acceleration of the virtual hardware. If you find yourself wanting more performance and you're familiar with Linux, I can recommend KVM.

Best of luck.

There's a patch to boot DOSBox from a boot disk, isn't there?

Wow, I've never tried this.
http://www.dosbox.com/wiki/BOOT

Can't freedos be booted directly from dosbox without hardware emulation?
As explained in dosboxwiki : http://www.dosbox.com/wiki/TOOLS:FreeDOS

You are doomed. Yes, you can use freedos through hd images and booting from them in Dosbox. But then using those Windows 32bit commandline programs is probably not going to work or not as you intended because once you boot in Dosbox, you have only access to the image...

ports of DOSBox have different functional to try: ykhwong's, vdos
but DOSBox was made for DOS games

Dominus wrote:

You are doomed. Yes, you can use freedos through hd images and booting from them in Dosbox. But then using those Windows 32bit commandline programs is probably not going to work or not as you intended because once you boot in Dosbox, you have only access to the image...

Do you mean that I wouldn't be able to access hx dos extender to run win32 apps ?

no, you can access that (if you put it on the image) but it (hx dos extender) might not work after all. AND whatever you aim to do with those apps is perhaps not working as well as you can only work with what is on the image.

Btw, I think some hx dos extender is working directly in Dosbox without the Freedos layer. Search for that...

Well the win32 tool I mean to try is the z88dk compiler.
As for Hx dos extender, I tried it on dosbox turbo for android unsuccesfully, that's why I thought of another dos.

Always try out first in desktop Dosbox to learn whether it is generally not working or just not on the unsupported Android port.

Also, with stuff like a compiler, you might be better off, running a VM with Windows just for that and control it via VNC from your Android device.