On Sun, 2007-03-11 at 22:37 -0400, Bonnie Dalzell wrote: > I have successfully installed Freedos on a Power PC MAC using Virtual PC > as the host for it.
Sickening, why are you using Microsoft's broken product instead of vmware? Go to http://www.vmware.com now please. > It seems to be up and running just fine but I cannot get it to recognize > the USB floppy drive and I need to install an old DOS Program from a > floppy disk. Use dd under Linux to image the floppy in question or cp under Linux to copy it off onto better media. For that matter copy it under Freedos. > The program requires its original floppy disk to install. I have been > able to install and use this program under Freedos (Yeh!) on an X-86 > platform so I know FreeDos can deal with the specially formatted > floppy. > I have tried some other fat formatted floppies in the floppy drive with > the MAC with Freedos running and free dos does not seem to recognize > them either or to recognize that a disk has been changed unless I > unplug the USB floppy and plug it back in. Michael C. Robinson ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
