I need FDD images of boot disks

pluthman · Oct 29, 2006

I have looked seemingly everywhere and cannot find a way around this. I have a macbook pro, and that's all i have. I would like to install some old operating systems, such as windows 95, windows 98se, etc. Everywhere I turn people are recommending to download utilities that require me to write to a phyrical drive. I don't have a physical floppy drive to write these boot disks too!

Can you recommend to me where I can go to download the FDD floppy disk images for Parallels Desktop for Mac so that I can install additional OS's?

Any help is appreciated.

BenInBlack · Oct 29, 2006

take a look at this thread

http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?t=4841&highlight=fdisk

and look for my post there, i have a dos622 boot disk you can use to install 95,98

darkone · Oct 31, 2006

http://www.bootdisk.com

allt he boot disks you'll every need. You should find you can just rename the .exe files to .img and they will work fine.

nomafral · Oct 31, 2006

Hi BenInBlack ! No way to download your dos622 boot disk so no way to install win98. Also with the images availables at bootdisk.com (as the img aren't considered to be bootable from parallels). Any idea on HOW TO DO IT (install win98).

Thanks

Nomafral ;-)

joem · Oct 31, 2006

If they are floppy images, rename them to .fdd and attach them as floppies. Be sure to set boot order to floppy first. I installed Win2k that way.

nomafral · Oct 31, 2006

Hi joem ! Nothing ! Seems they are not floppy images (I've tried many from http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm) How do you made for Win2k ? Where did you have found the fdd file ?

nomafral · Oct 31, 2006

Ok Just a little SORRY ! The images before are well working on Parallels (renaming them as joem suggested) but maybe great also to REMEMBER to connect at startup the floppy (sigh) ... :-o. First step done. Thanks

BenInBlack · Oct 31, 2006

Strange, if you click on link in my previous post in this thread there is a link called dos622.fdd if you click on that it should download.

nomafral · Oct 31, 2006

Done !
Installation of Win98 from iso (as cd drive) from my original cd, is running.
The only modification (maybe usefull to others) about the procedure described by BenInBlack (thanks a lot) will be to go to http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm and looking for the file http://s93616405.onlinehome.us/bootdisk/622c.zip and rename the image as fdd (thanks joem). That's all. Everything will work like "a charme".
Ciao !