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High!

I just started a virtual machine of DOS type, added a floppy drive (fd0) and tried to install MS-DOS 6.0 like I used to do on real machines, i. e. simply by booting from Microsoft installation disk #1... but obviously, that failed, I got the message

FATAL: Could not read from the boot medium! System halted.

What went wrong? I'm quite sure that the diskettes are intact, as they worked perfectly on another computer some months ago and were properly kept away from dust and magnetic fields...

See you in Khyberspace!

Yadgar

Now playing: Lessons In Love, Extended Version (Level 42)

High!

I found out that (of course!) Virtual Box doesn't mount any diskettes automatically, so I had to do this from Linux... then booting worked, but when I started to install, I was not able to complete formatting of the virtual harddisk (512 MB), the status box remains at 0 %... I used a non-dynamic virtual harddisk, so I wonder why this occurs!

See you in Khyberspace!

Yadgar

take another reboot and: see what happens OR don't let autoexec load and fdisk/format manually....