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How to create Virtual Box floppy disk images without any cruft!

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Jean-Yves:
Many thanks both. I’ll report back how it goes.

Jean-Yves:
So in the end I decided to just re-install ArcaOS 5.1 with a 2GB drive instead of 4GB.

The installer ran and disk1 completed, then when it asked for disk 2, it repeatedly failed to accept A: as a drive, saying it could not find the path and asking for it again, defaulting to a corrupted path of a "C" with some kind of cedilla, a 6 and then a small diamond character.



I then mapped a shared folder and in that placed 7 directories with the disks 1-7 files in the appropriate one. My thinking was that since the installer prompts for the location of each disk, I did not need to use the floppy images.   Again, same error

Since the image files were made from the same set of diskettes that I now have and both the images and raw files have this issue, can we assume that something on the original installer is corrupt?

Richard did you manage to install from the images your end?

Neil Waldhauer:
CA Realizer 3.0 is 32-bit, and CA Realizer 1.0 is 16-bit. I don't know about version 2.0. If you were targeting OS/2 1.x, 2 GB might still be too large. When I ran OS/2 1.x, an 80 MB drive was "huge".

Jean-Yves:
Hi Neil, from what I can tell in the docs, 2.0 is 32-bit so should work fine.

My understanding is that 3.0 is Windows-only. Is that incorrect?

David Graser:
I don't know how many disks you are dealing with.

I have used VFdisk located at

http://hobbesarchive.com/Home/Download?path=/Hobbes/pub/os2/system/drivers/filesys/VFDISK_6-0.zip

Install it and set up a 2.88 virtual disk with it. Copy all the files from disk 1 and 2 and run install.

I have used this before because I no longer have floppy drives.

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