One thing you can try is to remove the IDE HDD drive from the 486, connect it to a USB drive adapter, then use VirtualBox/qemu/et al. to install FreeDOS to it. You can use an adapter like this one ( https://www.ebay.com/itm/124411032918). Should have a JMicron chip in it which all modern OSes will know how to deal with.
On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 2:50 PM John Vella <john.ve...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >> > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >
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