Op 25-11-2012 4:28, bruce.bowman tds.net schreef:
The bootable CD images that I've been seeing for FreeDOS and DOS 7.1 are
all /installation/ disks that first fake a floppy drive and then load a
bootable floppy disk image that cannot be edited. I don't want to
actually install DOS and
Bruce, et al,
I have reinstalled XP hundreds of times, and I always preformat the XP's
partition(usually c)
with fat32; this forces the XP install to give the option to install XP on
fat32, which I always choose.
it may be that some windows apps *must* run in ntfs, but I've never used
one.
As
On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 11:47 AM, kurt godel wb2...@gmail.com wrote:
Bruce, et al,
I have reinstalled XP hundreds of times, and I always preformat the XP's
partition(usually c)
with fat32; this forces the XP install to give the option to install XP on
fat32, which I always choose.
it may
I just found that ImgBurn 2.4.2.0 can create/ burn img's, after you've
edited the files by the aforementioned method; and MagicDisk 2.7.106 is
said to do the same. They are both windows setups. I will try them.
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I have MagicISO Maker. It seems to function pretty well.
I do appreciate everyone's comments. Keep them coming, but please don't
expect a response to each one. I need to try to digest them and try a few
things before I get back with you.
Very pleased with the responsiveness of the folks in this
Whoa!!,
The magicdisk appears to be a hack; from some of it's online description,
probably from Asia, judging by grammatical errors. It does'nt work right:
when you click on the shortcut, it only puts a virtual cd in the task
panel, and keeps trying to access the internet. Fortunately, I
Hi,
If you just want to make a bootable .ISO from floppy image, you can
use MKBISO.
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/downloads-free-software.htm
You can edit and modify the floppy image file from QEMU (etc). Reading
and writing to floppy can be done with dd and/or Raread and Rawrite
(etc).
Hi,
On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 12:41 AM, Felix Miata mrma...@earthlink.net wrote:
On 2012-11-25 01:24 (GMT-0500) bruce.bowman tds.net composed:
Between my wife and I, we own six computers. None of them have a floppy
drive.
No drive doesn't necessarily mean neither floppy controller nor place
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From: bruce.bowman tds.net bruce.bow...@tds.net
winxpfix.zip and videoprt.zip have both been tried and neither of them
work. They might provide VESA 1.2 or 2.0 capability but not 3.0.
Between my wife and I, we own six computers. None of them have a floppy
drive.
From: Carl Spitzer cw...@safe-mail.net
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 12:14:38 -0800
... likely there will still be uses for some things with floppies for a while.
To illustrate, the basic PC Native Oberon system is
installed from one diskette. Another 3 diskettes provide
the complete system
also at www.floppydisk.com
they have usb floppy drives that are plug-and-play
compatible with windows. i have 2 and they're great
under windows 7 64-bit.
eufdp...@yahoo.com
eufdp...@yahoo.com
eufdp...@yahoo.com
eufdp...@yahoo.com
eufdp...@yahoo.com
You also might consider the well known and handy open source System Rescue
CD http://www.sysresccd.org/SystemRescueCd_Homepage. It has 32 64-bit
boot selections as well as boot options for the command line used for
starting LINUX. A USB version is available as well. Yes it does have
gparted.
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