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SATA HDD and letter mash
Shane,
Did you see my comment that you can boot a virtual PC from either a floppy or CD? All that you need to do is configure the VPC to capture the device and then it works as if the device is part of the virtual system rather than the host. BING. I assume it must have some form of DOS but that is somewhat academic when booting from either a floppy or CD since neither use any files on the hard disk and only accesses it when you enter maintenance mode. Incidentally since I use BING as my boot manager I install it to the hard drive and place it in its own 8MB partition which is the remainder of the first cylinder after the MBR etc. When I boot into my OS I don't load the BING volume into the partition table so it just appears as unallocated free space on the hard drive to the OS. Sorry to read about the nosebleed. I just hope it isn't a sign of anything too serious as I'm now relying on you to get some photos for me from Milleau. g I hope it stops soon and that you're OK and don't have to run up and down the lane. I'm off now to count sheep, or at least to read a book. -- Mike Shane wrote: Mike M wrote: But I want to be able to boot up with a DOS cd. That's no problem with a VM. You can boot it from a CD if required. As for your problems with a laptop I'd probably have used BING to sort out the partitions. No need to install, boot from either a BING floppy or CD and enter Maintenance mode. Don't recall if I had that available. If so I didn't use it because I was hoping to get into the volume(s) and repair it/them. Or maybe I did try it. My memory is poor these days. Hopefully it's just the drugs now. I think I made it academic by accidentally installing Linux on the wrong volume - because at that point I didn't realise two were being seen as one. Yes, that's what happened. Still don't recall if I had BING available. I might have assumed that it wouldn't boot anyway, though hopefully I'd have tried it - I really don't want to make assumptions! So BING doesn't use any flavour of DOS? I'd better drum that into my head! As soon as I typed that, I felt something damp on the end of my nose. I have a nosebleed. If this gets any wierder I may run off down the lane in my dressing gown! |
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