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MS-DOS 3.30 Floppy Installation Solution

Created by Maurice de Rooij on Nov 15, 2012 · last edited by Maurice de Rooij · on Nov 15, 2012 (view history) · 3 versions

Title
MS-DOS 3.30 Floppy Installation Solution

Detailed description
First we had to read the floppy disks. This was no problem as we have a USB dual floppy drive available. The 5.25" 320k single density MS-DOS disks were formatted with a FAT16 filesystem. Using the software provided with the FC5025 floppy drive controller it was very easy to create an image of the disks.

TBC: method, used CLI commands, howto create a empty HDD image, ...

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Maurice de Rooij

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