Hi Eric! I do have the img images for wordperfect, which I have transferred to floppy disk. The pc doesn't boot from cd, in fact I can't even get the bios to recognise the cd drive, as the hard drive parameters have to be manually entered. I have an isa sound Blaster awe 64 value, with ide connector, which I believe will allow me to access the drive, although boring from it probably won't be possible. Not a problem!
My main problem at this point is that the pc is currently in the living room, which is another reason for the original virtual machine plan. Thinking about it, I could actually have done the complete installation from floppy disk by now! I'll have a look tomorrow. On Tue, 29 Mar 2022, 22:36 Eric Auer, <e.a...@jpberlin.de> wrote: > > Hi! > > I think wordperfect for DOS came on floppies, yes. > And you can connect ATAPI CD/DVD drives to typical > 486 computers. There also are special boot loaders > which you can load from floppy to continue booting > from CD/DVD in case your BIOS does not yet support > direct booting from CD/DVD :-) > > Eric > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >
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