Install MS-DOS 6.22 with physical floppy drive

Discussion in 'Other Virtual machines' started by u.klose, Dec 24, 2007.

  1. u.klose

    u.klose Junior Member

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    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
     
  2. Salamat

    Salamat Member

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    Rather than using the actual disks. can you not make make floppy disk images that you can point the Parallels installer to?

    Salamat
     
  3. Stacey M

    Stacey M Parallels Team

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    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
     
  4. u.klose

    u.klose Junior Member

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    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
     
  5. Stacey M

    Stacey M Parallels Team

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    Please tell me if Mac can see your Floppy drive.
    Also provide me with a screenshot of 'Configuration Editor' -> 'Floppy' tab.

    Best regrads,
    Stacey
     
  6. u.klose

    u.klose Junior Member

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    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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  7. Stacey M

    Stacey M Parallels Team

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    Please use this article to connect the floppy image to your VM.

    Best regards,
    Stacey
     
  8. u.klose

    u.klose Junior Member

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    Thank you. Didn't think of the fact that creating images on OS X is that simple.

    Happy holidays :)
     

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