Hello Greg, Many thanks for the link! OK, will try the other method and see if it works! When I run Qemu I used the -nographics option. When the Dos floppy had booted I entered dir but the diskette didn't start spinning at all. Also, I tried installing the Qemu Accelerator, but it didn't work. Many thanks, Christian On 2006-07-11 at 08:01 Gregory Nowak wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >Hi Christian, > >I'm not sure, I guess the only way to find out would be to try it. If >you're interested in running dos in a virtual machine of its own >however, check out dosemu, ><http://sourceforge.net/projects/dosemu/>. The good news here is that >you don't need a dos screen reader, since speakup does a beautiful job >here. > >Greg > > >On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 02:27:57PM +0200, Christian wrote: >> Hello Greg, >> Many thanks, will give it a try! >> But this will not allow me to for instance boot a DOS floppy under Qemu >and read it in a text console? >> Many thanks, >> Christian >> >> > >- -- >web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org >gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc >skype: gregn1 >(authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) > >- -- >Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) > >iD8DBQFEs71j7s9z/XlyUyARAtbNAJ0T6xQJmoZkMYEnXZOp4uY366VhCwCfcgPb >RwWf87iqeLqN5Dtp5B5eYOg= >=jeOK >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup