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I'm running VB 4.1.18.

I have an external USB floppy drive and I'm trying to install an OS/2 Warp 3 Connect guest on a Windows 7 64-bit host. But the OS/2 installation procedure calls for booting from a floppy. I have set boot device to be floppy first in the System section of Settings in VB. With my USB floppy drive connected and recognized by the Win 7 host OS, when I attempt to boot from the floppy drive (and yes, the boot floppy disk is in the floppy drive) I get "FATAL: No bootable medium found. System halted.

How would I make a floppy attachment (in the Storage section of Settings??) since the controller is USB, not IDE?

And is this what is necessary for me to do to be able to boot from my OS/2 bootable floppies?

Thanks

Booting from USB is not supported and probably what is causing this to fail. Make an img file out of the floppy and mount that to the virtual floppy drive instead.
If this works and you have any other issues with OS/2 please start a new topic under "other guests".

I'm sorry. I most definitely don't want to post this here if it's against the rules. But you said to create a new thread in "Other Guests" if you're procedure worked.

I can't get to the point of checking that because I don't know how to attach a/the virtual floppy drive. When I try to attach a floppy drive to the IDE controller in the Storage section of Settings in VB all I see are hard disks and CDROM drives as possible attachments. No floppy drive as a possible attachment.

I have a floppy image and the capability to make more. The one I have is a .vfd extension.

So how do I attach a virtual floppy drive?

You first need to add a floppy controller and then the drive.

Under the storage section of the drive click on add new controller to the storage tree, then once the controller is created click on the floppy icon and add the virtual drive. Select choose disk and drill to the image. Below is a screen shot of one of mine set to empty.

You are not breaking any rules it is just you will get better support if you use the proper place to ask questions about OS/2.