Fortunately a set of 1.2 MB install floppy disks of EUMEL’s x86 port has been preserved, see section artifacts_. It can be installed in any virtual machine emulating an IBM PC. In this example we’re using qemu.
- Create a 128 MB harddrive:
qemu-img create root.img 128M
- Start the setup program:
qemu-system-i386 -drive file=02_setup.img,if=floppy,format=raw -drive file=root.img,format=raw
- Create a new partition by pressing
1<return>
, confirm withj
and accept the following defaults with <return> orj
. - If the main screen is displayed again press
0<return>
and confirm yet again withj
to exit setup. The screen should now read “E N D E”. - Quit qemu and restart it with the third floppy disk. The bootloader complains that “HG ungueltig”.
- Press any key followed by
2
and a confirmation withj
. Reset the machine again. - Now we have to set up the keyboard layout and time. Select “Kanal 1” with
j
, then pressn
untilpc.1.25
is displayed and confirm. Disable “Kanal 2” and 15 withn
and decline deleting those channels withn
. - Congratulations, a fully functional EUMEL is now running in your virtual machine! For the next steps head over to [praxis1]_.