Install MS-DOS 6.22 with physical floppy drive

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u.klose

Junior Member
Hi,

I've got a USB floppy drive and those good old MS-DOS disks ;) How can I install MS-DOS in a virtual machine using those floppies? I have to to some Assembler coding and want to do that in an MS-DOS environment.


Thanks for your help,
Ulf
 
Rather than using the actual disks. can you not make make floppy disk images that you can point the Parallels installer to?

Salamat
 
Hello,

you should create a new VM using a 'Custom' mode.
Then open 'Configuration Editor' of your new VM, select 'Options' -> 'Booting' tab -> check 'Floppy, hard Disk, CD-Rom'.
After that configure the 'Floppy' tab and start your VM.

Best regards,
Stacey
 
Hello,

unfortunately the VM doesn't boot up correctly using these settings. It says that it's trying to access a floppy disk but can't find any. The LED from my external USB floppy drive doesn't confirm what the VM's saying.

Boot from floppy drive...
Non-System disk or disk error
Replace and press any key when ready
 
Please tell me if Mac can see your Floppy drive.
Also provide me with a screenshot of 'Configuration Editor' -> 'Floppy' tab.

Best regrads,
Stacey
 
Hello Stacey,

here are the two screenshots you requested. Before I made the screenshots the floppy symbol in the Finder looked different from now, don't know why. The symbol before was a floppy disk.


Greetings,
Ulf
 

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