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

[RTAN]

Hi Jean-Yves,

I'm really sorry to hear that you're having issues. I've replied separately by private message but for the benefit of others following this thread I can confirm that this version definitely works on OS/2 Warp 3 with FixPak 40.

I know this because I installed it myself and successfully built, ran, and then compiled a project on genuine OS/2 Warp 3 with FixPak XR_W040 on my IBM PC 300GL. The compiled EXE file then ran successfully on a *different* OS/2 Warp 3 FP40 PC (one of my legacy ThinkPads).

I fear therefore that it's an incompatibility with ArcaOS 5.x and I hope others in the forum are able to offer some useful suggestions.

I will be delighted on your behalf if I'm proven wrong about it being a compatibility issue rather than a disk corruption issue!

Best,
Richard.

[Neil Waldhauer]

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

No idea, really. CA Realizer 1.0 predates OS/2 2.0, so certainly 16-bit. CA realizer 3.0 is 1996, so it seems to me the Windows code for 3.0 is likely a port of the OS/2. I'll bet the Windows version runs fine in Odin.

[Jean-Yves]

Hi Jean-Yves,

I'm really sorry to hear that you're having issues. I've replied separately by private message

Have replied by PM too but just to repeat what I said there, no apology is needed - I'm pretty sure it does not say compatible with ArcaOS 5.1 on the box 

[RTAN]

Hi Jean-Yves,

One other thing you could try (if you haven't already). You said:

I then mapped a shared folder and in that placed 7 directories with the disks 1-7 files in the appropriate one

Rather than having individual subdirectories for each disk, try putting *all* files in the same directory - i.e. one installation source directory containing all files from all disks (e.g. C:\CARv2). My "hope" is that the installer won't then even need to prompt for a "location for file X" because file X is already immediately accessible.

I've done that before when installing stuff and on most occasions that's worked.

Best,
Richard.

[Jean-Yves]

Hi Richard,

I thought I'd answered already but seems like my reply went into \DEV\NUL or something!

Anyway - I tried, but as soon as I tried adding disk 2 contents to the disk 1 files in the combined folder, there was a filename clash.

Hey ho - I'm going to try to get my eComStation VM image over to my Linux laptop and see what I can do on that.  I'm pretty sure I have the 2.0 pre-release running on that image already so it should work.


JY