floppy drives with parallels...

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OmegaMan

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Hello All,

I'm very new to Parallels so forgive my ignorance...

I installed Parallels Workstation for Mac on my new iMac and got Windows XP up and running in no time.

This led me to believe it would be nice to see my old MS DOS 6.22 prompt and then Windows 3.1 again. Being a developer I have all Microsoft OSs back to the DOS days.

I borrowed a USB floppy drive (which OS X recoginized immediately) and made some DOS installation floppies. I created an MS DOS VM and found that the 'Use real floppy' (under Floppy Options) option is grayed out. So much for 'real' floppy support.

I then tried to use Image Tool which is pretty much worthless. It doesn't work for CD/DVDs or floppies. So much for disc image support.

So, how do I install a multiple floppy installation of an OS?
 
Get a copy of freedos (google or search the forum). Copy the MSDOS files (as data) into your XP VM. Mount a copy of the FreeDOS image, and replace the files with the MSDOS files. Create other floppies as required. Same game for Win3.1 but you could probably install that from a CD image that you make in OSX.
 
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