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I have VBox 2.2.2 going with NT4 and Xp as the guests. It is on a fedora 10 machine.
I have NT4 set up with 128 mB memory and 64 MB video memory. gust additions installed.

I have a software package I want to load and get running with NT4.
To do this I have to use the floppy drive.
I can go to a DOS prompt and do a A: DIR for which I see the contents of the 720k floppy.
If I then run "setup" for the application concerned I get the following;
"program to big to fit in memory"

I have tried to increase the base memory but with the same result.
I have tried three different floppy drives 2 brand new from different manufactures, I have also tried different cables.

can any one suggest that the issue is and how to fix it. it is after all only a 720 kb floppy!

Thanks

That "program too big..." message usually means a corrupt program.
How do you get it. Is it already on a floppy? download? or what?

The disks are from a software supplier for the program concerned. I can use the disks ok in a windows machine so I do not believe the disks are corrupt. It is the setup program this is giving the message "program to big to fit in memory". When I run setup /U I get the message.
the machine reads the director on the disk with out any issues. In fact both setup disks give the same message.

Thanks for taking the trouble.

gs63 wrote:I can go to a DOS prompt and do a A: DIR for which I see the contents of the 720k floppy. (...)

instead passing the drive to the guest could you mount a floppy image file?

dd if=/dev/fd0 of=foobar.img

then attach foobar.img in vbox virtual media mgr and mount in the guest

Thanks,

Will this work if the disk in question has copy protection on it? The disk has copy protection I think using some bad sector type protection. The disk can not be copied under anything I have found.


i will however try the suggestiion at the weekend as that is the only time I have this week to play around with such things

Will this work if the disk in question has copy protection on it?

probably not, i dont think it will work