Archive of the J Operating System by Terry A. Davis:

• jcd.iso was downloaded from https://web.archive.org ,
• JCD.ISO/ contains uncompressed the contents of jcd.iso.

Run JOS in QEMU

To run jcd.iso in QEMU, install qemu-system-i386.

Next, start QEMU with qemu-system-i386 -cdrom jcd.iso -m 100. In the JOS boot loader screen, press s for seconday IDE controller, followed by 0 for IDE master:

To boot QEMU with a hard drive, run it with the following options:

-drive file=JHD.raw,index=0,format=raw,media=disk -boot d

after creating a JHD.raw HDD image with:

qemu-img create JHD.raw 500M