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With aptitude install qemu This uses about 460MB
It installs about 350MB of stuff you probably will not need
As also the case in other packages it is unclear why packages have to be installed which seem to be of no use
On Debian 10 Buster in aptitude for the x86 emulator: 54MB

• Do wget http://www.freedos.org/download/download/FD12CD.iso or download the CDROM “standard” installer from Freedos
• qemu-img create -f raw /opt/qemu/freedos.qemu.img 200M
• qemu-img resize -f raw /opt/qemu/freedos.qemu.img +400M
• Once: qemu-system-i386 -m 32M -drive file=/opt/qemu/freedos.qemu.img,media=disk,format=raw -drive file=/home/user/downloads/FD12CD.iso,media=cdrom -boot order=d
• Follow the instructions:
  • Wait a few seconds or press ESC
  • Press <ENTER> to install to harddisk
  • Your language (English) Press <ENTER>
  • Yes - Continue with the installation Press <ENTER>
  • Yes - Partition drive C: Press <ENTER>
  • Do you want to use large disk (FAT32) support (Y\N).[Y]? Press <ENTER>
  • Enter choice: [1] Press <ENTER>
  • Enter choice: [ ] Press <1> (Create primary DOS partition) and <ENTER>
  • Do you wish to use the maximum available size for a Primary DOS partition and make the partition active (Y\N)…………..? [Y] Press <ENTER>
  • Check what has been done and press <Esc> three times
  • Yes - Please reboot now Press <ENTER>
• Run: qemu-system-i386 -drive file=/opt/qemu/freedos.qemu.img,format=raw
• Do some more configuration
• Create a directory to put your dos programs in: mkdir /opt/qemun/dosprograms
• Put a dos program in that directory
• Run, use this every time you want to start qemu with freedos,: qemu-system-i386 -drive file=/opt/qemu/freedos.qemu.img,format=raw -drive file=fat:rw:dosprograms/
• Do D: and then dir now you should see your dos programs and are able to run them

Press Esc for boot menu Booting from harddisk... partition signature !=55AA** This is an ERROR

We solved this by changing

  qemu-system-x86_64 -drive file=/opt/qemu/freedos.qemu.img,format=raw -cdrom /home/user/downloads/FD12CD.iso -boot menu=on -machine pc -cpu n270

to

qemu-system-i386 -m 32M -drive file=/opt/qemu/freedos.qemu.img,media=disk,format=raw -drive file=/home/user/downloads/FD12CD.iso,media=cdrom -boot order=d

qemu-system-x86_64 -machine help
qemu-system-x86_64 -cpu help
qemu-system-i386 -m 1 -k en-us -rtc base=localtime -device cirrus-vga -display curses -hda /opt/qemu/dos.img -fda /opt/qemu/FLOPPY.img -boot order=adc -drive file=fat:rw:dosprograms/,format=vvfat

• Download
  
• Download the VMware player evaluation version. You do not need this one. Just for reference
  

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