![]() ![]() I then attached the DOS 6.22 boot disk I previously downloaded as a CD/DVD – this is important – and followed some instructions I tracked down at Parallels’ support forums. I gave it 2GB of disk space – which is about 20 times more than my first PC had (120MB and it was beast of a system in its day with it’s huge 4MB of memory and 486 processor). There’s a Windows 3.11 option as well but figured the settings would be pretty similar. I used Parallels Desktop’s Installation Assistant to create a blank VM for DOS 6.22. I grabbed a Windows 95b one while I was there as I knew one old OS was never going to be enough. AllBootDisks has bootable images for a bunch of older operating systems. I started by visiting AllBootDisks and grabbing a DOS 6.22 bootable ISO. The real challenge was in creating a VM that would boot up at all – at least that was my challenge. It turns out that installing DOS and Windows is actually the easy bit once you have the media. If you still have the original media and a floppy disk drive (I have an old USB one for just this sort of occasion) then you can create your own disk images if you have some spare time.Īlso, this procedure should work with the free virtualisation software, VirtualBox as well as Vmware Fusion. I sourced my copies of the media from The Legacy PC Project. I should note that although I downloaded disk images for DOS and Windows, I still have my original floppy disk installation media so I didn’t feel too bad about downloading software that was released in 1993 and has long-since been out of mainstream use. And I figured that it would pose the most challenges to install.Īs I’d recently installed Parallels Desktop 14, I decided to use that for my DOS/Windows machine. ![]() I decided on the combination of DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.11 as that was the last mainstream generation of software that relied on a command line operating system. In my recent review of Parallels Desktop 14, I mentioned that I set up a virtual machine to run MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.11. My theory is that one of the configuration files in the \net3 folder is referencing another file that I haven't copied.Sitting in front of our modern PCs, it’s hard to imagine a time when things weren’t as smooth, easy and inutile as they are today. But I didn't see in the documentation that as a strong point in FreeDOS. I would be happy to use FreeDOS, if I could boot up to the network. I have looked at, but that disk would not load the network programs into the RAM drive on the ALR. Here is a listing of the full C:\net3 folder: I changed all the drive references to a:) PROMPT $p$g (I'm sorry I don't have the exact error message in front of me.)ĭoes anyone have any instruction or knowledge about why I can't follow the same commands from a floppy that the hard drive uses?īelow are the config.sys and autoexec.bat, and the listing for the c:\net3 directory.Ĭonfig.sys (I copied the himem.sys and emm386.exe to the floppy and changed to a:\himem.sys, etc.) device=c:\dos\emm386.exe noemsĪutoexec.bat (again, this is from the c:\ drive. But the "net initialize" command keeps failing. I have tried copying all of the *.dos, *.ini files from the c:\net3 directory, along with anything else that I could fit and that I thought was useful to the network boot. This seems simple, but it's apparently not. I can reboot the computer from the floppy drive, but it fails at the "a:\net3\net initialize" command. (I can't copy all of them because of a lack of floppy disk space.) I edited the config.sys and autoexec.bat to reference the copied files on the floppy instead of the hard drive. I also copied the c:\net3 directory files that I thought were necessary. I have made a bootable floppy, I have copied the config.sys and autoexec.bat files to the floppy, along with any files that are referenced. I am trying to make a DOS 6.22 boot floppy that will boot the same way the C: drive boots. It then maps a drive to a Windows Server, logs in, and runs an old legacy program. This ALR computer boots to DOS, loads network drivers (it has an old Dlink DE-220 network card). I have a computer (an oooold ALR, 486DX-66) that has a hard drive that boots to DOS 6.22.
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