A small Yuletide gift
Dec. 26th, 2021 07:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
liam_on_linuxIt's been a while since I have had any time to work on one of my pet projects...
So, herewith, step 1 in it: a downloadable FAT32 PC-DOS 7.1 Virtualbox disk image.
This is the PC DOS 2000 disk image from Connective VirtualPC – I described how I created that this time last year.
I've replaced the kernel files, COMMAND.COM and a few utilities with those from the freely-downloadable PC DOS 7.1 made available by IBM. I've described that and how to get it, too.
So what I did was make a new FAT32 8GB virtual drive. Partitioned it with PC-DOS 7.1's FDISK32 command. Formatted it with PC-DOS 7.1's FORMAT32 command. Copied the system from the Connectix FAT16 drive, check it boots, and here it is.
Next planned step: add in the IBM Warp Server DOS LAN Services & IBM TCP/IP and make it able to talk to the VirtualBox host. Sadly, after so long away from this, it took me some hours to remember where I was up to and build this disk image.
So, herewith, step 1 in it: a downloadable FAT32 PC-DOS 7.1 Virtualbox disk image.
This is the PC DOS 2000 disk image from Connective VirtualPC – I described how I created that this time last year.
I've replaced the kernel files, COMMAND.COM and a few utilities with those from the freely-downloadable PC DOS 7.1 made available by IBM. I've described that and how to get it, too.
So what I did was make a new FAT32 8GB virtual drive. Partitioned it with PC-DOS 7.1's FDISK32 command. Formatted it with PC-DOS 7.1's FORMAT32 command. Copied the system from the Connectix FAT16 drive, check it boots, and here it is.
Next planned step: add in the IBM Warp Server DOS LAN Services & IBM TCP/IP and make it able to talk to the VirtualBox host. Sadly, after so long away from this, it took me some hours to remember where I was up to and build this disk image.
