Ms Dos Boot Floppy
Marieta Reeks
These disks are original boot floppy disk media for use with Microsoft Windows CD-ROMs. Not all Windows 9x/ME CDs are bootable, not all CDs included boot disks, and DOS will not see a CD-ROM drive unless a driver is loaded. OEMs were expected to provide compatible CD-ROM with the boot media provided with their systems. However towards the very late 90s, most vendors standardized on IDE/ATAPI CD-ROM hardware and the use of the OEM Adaption Kit (OAK) driver. If your CD drive is not IDE compatible (such as an MKE or Panasonic interface) you must manually add your own driver. Note: you can use the Windows 98 boot disk with Windows 95 to make things easier. If you have any UNTOUCHED OEM boot disks with different drivers, please submit them.
So I only have a USB port and a floppy drive to work with. When I tried DSL, I had a floppy that contained the kernel and syslinux. I realize that the Ubuntu kernel is too large to fit on one 1.44MB floppy, but is there some sort of program/boot loader that could load from USB from a floppy?
If you need a program to extract the files from the iso, Peazip (or 7zip) is a free and open source tool you can use. (If you have trouble installing because you are not an administrator, try the portable version of Peazip (or 7zip portable)).
You can install Super Grub disk. onto a floppy drive using RawWrite for Windows. Download the Rawwrite Binary (the .zip file - 0.7 is the lastest at time of writing). You can use Peazip to extract the zip file.
Once there you will need to find your boot device. (Glance at the code below). If you only have 1 hard drive it will be hd1 for the second hard drive - the usb drive (the numbering starts from 0). The second number afterwords is your partiton number. For a USB drive it us usually 1 for the first partition (numbering starts from 1). Enter the code below to boot from your USB drive.
2) What's different here is that Puppy is extraordinarily small, yet quite full-featured. Puppy boots into a ramdisk and, unlike live CD distributions that have to keep pulling stuff off the CD, it loads into RAM.
note: Wake2pup tool is specifically built for puppy linux..therefore it can be applied to all latest puppy variants (lucid,racy,wary,slacko).. so it may be not for other distro(havn't tested but if it can be done for other distro..i will edit this post asap)
I'm trying to preserve some old bootable floppy disk by trying to clone it to a hard drive (disk C:) to run on the same hardware. (Important note: The hardware shall remain the same. I cannot use a VM or another computer!)
In the current configuration this computer doesn't have a hard drive (but I can add one via a 34-pin ribbon cable.) At the moment computer boots directly off of this floppy, but I can change it to boot from disk C in BIOS.
I just made a bootable DOS floppy disk in Windows Vista, but the files are taking too much space. I need more space to store a flash utility program and a ROM file. What files can I safely remove and still be able to boot into DOS?
I don't remember seeing this many files when creating a bootable DOS floppy disk. It's as if Windows Vista adds some extra files for added functionality, when compared to previous versions of Windows.
I am pretty sure that COMMAND.COM is for keeping. But what about IO.SYS? That one alone takes a lot of space. And why are there three different SYS files for keyboard? Is that for setting different keyboard layouts? What are those CPI files and why are there three of them as well? I know what Autoexec.bat is for. If I add my command in there, can I get rid of COMMAND.COM?
At the very least you need command.com, io.sys and msdos.sys. The character set (codepage), keyboard layout and display localization support files can all be omitted if they're not required. Delete everything else other than those three and try, or else use a DOS/FreeDOS USB stick (created using something like Rufus) if the PC can boot from it.
3. Input these commands into your dosbox.conf file :
imgmount 2 [insert path and file name of hard disk image] -t hdd -fs none -size 512,63,16,1024
boot [insert path and file name of floppy disk images]
Ok i forgot to say that im using (x86) DOSBox SVN-Daum Do you have an example?
Imagine this scenario:
imgmount a 622c.img (this image has an MS-DOS bootable disk)
(how to mount the cd)?
boot -l a
Use Dosbox-x and ask the author for instructions. Daum implemented Dosbox-x but since Daum is slightly broken and Dosbox-x has been developed further since the last Daum release... -> use Dosbox-x ?
I need to run an application that controls a CNC machine and the application has an issue:
The time that milling motor requires to reach the optimal RPM is timed with a loop instead of timers.
At 486 33MHz works fine but with an Pentium 75MHz appears the issue. The program can be installed in a contemporany computer but the issue is higher.
For that reason I use an old computer without USB support nor network, the only options are CDs, diskettes or null modem.
The solution is to mount the image as another drive on Windows 7 or higher, copy the files and unmount. Then run DosBox.
The next step is to use a shared folder as recomends Jorpho, it's the best option.
Meanwhile I'll use this solution, I wasted too much time to run the original image on a VM. ?
What I would do in your case is to connect the hard drive powered off, turn on the st and boot to desktop on a floppy (possibly with a hard disk driver), then power on the hard disk, run the hard disk driver from floppy, aaaaaand then it should work? Perhaps even "install devices" in TOS 2.06 will create the detected drives for you.
Based on what you just said though.... I'm wondering if the drive isn't going flaky and is about to go. I honestly would reconsider trying again unless/until you have something ready to go to do a full backup. (Obviously, ignore this if there is nothing that needs saving). What are the hardware specs on the drive?
Something to consider.... Is this a Mega STE? (and I'm assuming hooked to the MSTE power supply) have you tried an external power supply? Just to see if maybe under certain phases of the moon the PS is getting a little overworked? If it's not a Mega STE, might still be worth looking at the PS as well.
Well, I guess what I was getting at was the potential of having a small extension cable between the adapter and the drive, so you could maybe move it in such a way that it doesn't hit the card or that it simply seats a little better.
For ICD drivers you hold the ALT key at boot time. It doesn't work for him probably because his boot sector is corrupt. And again, in the worst case you can turn off the hard disk. As a matter of fact, back at the day I never played games with the hard disk powered on unless the game was going to use the hard disk itself.
Hello I need help with an HP Vectra VL Series 4 5/100 When a hard drive is plugged in I cant boot from the floppy drive I have a windows 95 setup floppy the hard drive is blank so it cant boot into anything I tried swapping jumpers but that didnt solve anything I went into the bios and disabled Boot from hard disk
Older PCs that came with floppy drives had their boot sequence in the BIOS set by default to have the floppy drive first. So, unless you changed that, which you should not have done, you should not have had to mess with that. Also, I would not disable booting from the hard drive; instead, I would change the drive boot order to have the floppy drive first and the hard drive second.
Additionally, I would personally have trouble trusting the integrity of a 25-year-old floppy disk. I would be surprised if it even still works. And unfortunately, I have no idea where you can even get a copy of Windows 95 now.
Sorry for the late reply, I got a 4gb drive now its booting off of the floppy disk and formatting correctly so I think the bios didn't recognize the 10gb,30gb, or 160gb drive becuase it was only showing up as 8.4gb or 8455mb with all of the other drives so the 4gb is under the bios limit now im guessing thats why it is working fine, Thank you for the reply
Create a Boot Floppy Disk with a Windows XP-Based Computer
1. Format a floppy disk by using the Windows XP format utility. For example, with the floppy disk in the floppy disk drive, type format a: at a command prompt, and then press ENTER.
2. Copy the Ntldr and the Ntdetect.com files from the I386 folder on the Windows XP Setup CD-ROM, Windows XP Setup floppy disk, or from a computer that is running the same version of Windows XP as the computer that you want to access with the boot floppy.
3. Create a Boot.ini file (or copy one from a computer that is running Windows XP), and then modify it to match the computer that you are trying to access. The following example works for a single-partition IDE drive with Windows XP installed in the \Windows folder, but the exact value in the [operating systems] section depends on the configuration of the Windows XP computer that you are trying to access: [boot loader]
timeout=30
Default= multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\windows