It's as simple as download the floppy disk image. Yes all 1.2MB. Fire up VirutalBox and create a new machine exactly as you would for any other install. I selected Other to both questions about which OS and version i was using. You'll need to assign 512MB minimum RAM and turn on all the CPU extensions and double check your boot order is Floppy first. When enabling the floppy device, you get to select an image file. I noticed that it didn't seem to recognise the .IMG file by default so I had to switch to All files view. After that, just click Start, and about 3 seconds later you'll be up and running. Fully. Ready to go.
Now, does anybody know how to get online with this OS? Help!
Oh,.. and one more thing, it's a real pain to get your mouse pointer back. The usual right-ctrl key doesn't work. Probably getting swallowed up far earlier in the event tree by MenuetOS. You can get it back - mainly by mashing the keyboard around the bottom row of the keyboard (alt, shift, windows key, space, tab). Somehow seems to allow the host to recapture the mouse etc.
Have fun.
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when I launch it from Vbox, i get an error "long mode not available" do understand this error message?
That is a bug with Menuet OS 64-bit. For some reason, Menuet64 doesn't run on 32-bit hosts. So download Menuet32 and you'll be up and running.
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