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Disk Images with Pre-installed Systems
We are trying to collect a minimal hard disk or floppy disk image for all free supported operating systems that Bochs can run. Each TAR file contains everything you need to try out the operating system, including a .bochsrc, BIOS and VGA BIOS. The goal is to make it very easy for anyone to try out a disk image. More info...

WARNING: Some disk images have not been updated recently, so some Bochsrc hacking might be required.

FreeDOS
5-meg hard disk image which boots into FreeDOS.
Linux
4-meg hard disk image which boots into Linux. It should boot ok.
DLX Linux
A 10-meg disk that boots DLX Linux (1.3.x kernel).
NetBSD
Bootable floppy image. Fails in Bochs under bugfix2 with hard disk panic.
OpenBSD
- OpenBSD
  Bootable floppy image. Fails in Bochs under bugfix2 with hard disk panic.
PicoBSD
Floppy image that boots FreeBSD, not a complete installation.
Pragma Linux
Floppy image that boots Pragma Linux.
Debian 3.0r0 Image (77MB download), contributed by Robert Millan
Debian 2.2r5 Image (32MB download, 505MB uncompressed) and associated bochsrc, contributed by Robert Millan

Other Images

Linux kernel image for x86-64 from Andi Kleen at SuSE, which can be used as a boot floppy. Here is the System.map file for it, which can be useful for debugging.
BOXCARZF.ZIP
DOS executable from Leyland Needham (suboner@aol.com) that may expose a Bochs FPU bug

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