Alexey,
Great, good, cool. Now how to image and what size.
Should I image a blank diskette or somehow create a file and format it for
this virtual drive. I'd like to create a large virtual drive B if possible.
I recall that diskcopy could be used to copy a real formatted image. LINUX
tools could be available through Cygwin recompiled for Windows programs.
There is something named like MTools I think and the old reliable dd.
While I want a virtual drive I'm thinking what other options exist. Drive B
alternatives I remember include IOmega's Zip-Drive that plugged into a USB
port late in its history and was 100 MB. Not much these days. USB flash
drives are another that store I'd like to have as a B diskette replacement.
Thanks for the info. I'm giving VirtualBox a try.
- jsw
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 1:35 AM, Alexey Eromenko <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 1:19 AM, Gregory Nowak <[email protected]>
> wrote:
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> > On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:21:43AM -0500, john s wolter wrote:
> >> Yep that's right those oooolddd diskettes A & B are needed in a virtual
> >> form. I want to run an old MS-DOS program that is in drive A that
> expects
> >> the data to be on drive B:. Originally A & B were floppy disks(8" ?, no
> >> 51/4"). No source code or command line parameters are available to fix
> >> this situation.
> >
> > You actually can do what you're describing with virtualbox.
>
> VM->Settings->Storage->Add controller->Add floppy controller->Add Floppy
>
> VBox can emulate 2x 1.44 MB floppies per VM, either read-only or
> read-write.
> You will need to create or download a floppy image, or use physical
> floppy, if you have one.
>
> --
> -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov"
>
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