Hello!
Anyway, I have Windows 3.1 installed in a Workstation 10 VM. I cannot get it to read the .img file that I made with oakcdrom.sys in it. In the Windows GUI itself, Windows 3.1 will say to format the drive in Flie Manager.
Does anyone have a way to get it into the VM or have a floppy image with that file in it that is compatible with Windows 3.1? If anyone does, I would appreciate it so much!
SIncerely,
Kelvin T.
Just a guess here (I no longer have any DOS or W 3.1 VM's), but perhaps your image is FAT32 and you need to use FAT 16 or 12?
Lou
Just a guess here (I no longer have any DOS or W 3.1 VM's), but perhaps your image is FAT32 and you need to use FAT 16 or 12?
Lou
It probably is. I formatted the .img on a NT based operating system (Win 7). Would formatting under Win98 help and adding the file from that help?
Not sure when they went to FAT32. We used to use winimage, perhaps that does old 16 bit stuff.
I make my images on Linux now:
dd if=/dev/zero of=floppy-144.flp bs=1440k count=1
mkdosfs -F 16 (or 12) -v floppy-144.flp
example:
dd if=/dev/zero of=floppy-144.flp bs=1440k count=1
mkdosffs -F 16 -v floppy-144.flp
Then mount with a loop back device:
sudo mkdir /mnt/tmp
sudo mount floppy-144.flp /mnt/tmp -o loop,noatime,rw
sudo cp <stuff_to_be_copied> /mnt/tmp
sudo umount /mnt/tmp
I can read that diskette in a W7 VM, I don't have a DOS VM to test with.
If you don't have a Linux system, good chance to learn it with a VM. I use CentOS 7.0 as my host
Lou