converting old floppies to the required .fdd format

[bombastinator]

Can anyone please explain in small words (or point to some basic documentation) how exactly one converts both actual floppies and the various oddball windows virtual formats into .fdd?

I have run into several threads requesting this, but the answerers seem to think the conversion process is obvious. I assure you it is not. Us post GUI children know nothing of the ancient, archane, and impressively under documented DOS rituals.

I'm trying to load up an old copy of Win98' and the full version is (naturally) not self booting. I think I need a copy of dos 6.x or freeDOS in an .fdd format. I can find it .exe. I can find it in .iso. I even found it in some other microsoft image format who's name I forgot, but I can't seem to find one in .fdd

Someone please have pity.

Come to think of it, that disk may be the main reason I origionally bought a Mac way back when.

 

[joem]

Find it in .iso, and rename the file to .fdd

Then boot DOS (or FREEDOS), make sure you can access your CD, and run the setup program (which you will have to look for, but you can do your looking on a Windows machine or in OSX)

Since I've never installed Win98, I don't know what the program is called but I'd start looking in the i386 directory (there should be one somewhere) for win-something.exe

If there are two of them, the one without the "32" is the right one for installing from DOS.

Sorry I can't give you more detail -- ask a Win2k question and I can probably do better <grin>