Legacy Installation Issues

[kakashi_12]

I've tried installing both Win 3.1 and DOS 6 on my virtual. None of them work.

I got the downloads off a site. They are in image files and contain up to 5 or 6 files (disk1, disk2, etc).
- The Win3.1 problem is that they are in IMA format. I tried changing the extension to img (which is what vbox wants) and it didn't recognize the change. I also tried finding converters and was not sucessful. I did get it converted to ISO, but it has to be a floppy image, not CD/DVD image. So anything I try to mount in the vbox won't work.
- The DOS problem is that it does infact load, I mounted disk1 (and the rest of them behind it, but loaded it with disk1), and then I tell it to format, and it just sits there frozen at 0%. I've waited several minutes.

[kakashi_12]

grrrr

[mpack]

From a quick web search, the .IMA extension in relevant contexts seems to a be a simple floppy image file, meaning VBox should have no problem with it.

[kakashi_12]

shouldn't... but it does.
it errors out.

[mpack]

it errors out.

With what error message?

And how big are the .IMA files? If they are standard 3.5" floppy images then they should be exactly 1,474,560 bytes in size. Anything else probably indicates something wrong with them.

Btw, I have installed both DOS 6.2 and Win 3.1 from floppy images (good images I created myself from old floppies I had kept). They install just fine.

[ghr]

For the format: just fdisk & format manually.