DR-DOS boot floppy image

by david 29. April 2011 11:05

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One of the results of all this DR-DOS memory stick work was that I also created a bootable floppy disk image.  I created it using Microsoft Virtual PC ... but the resulting disk image would be bootable in VirtualBox too.  I manually edited the xml files to attach the virtual floppy disk in Virtual PC, as described here. This disk image just boots DR-DOS with a CD ROM driver, some memory management and a RAM Disk driver.

My next step will be to use this floppy disk image to build a bootable CD.  I will then use that as the basis for my revised PDP-11 Live CD.  I'll probably use SIMH for DOS since I don't expect that I'll be allowed to redistrubute the demo version of Ersatz-11 (although I think that Ersatz is a better emulator).

About the author

David

I'm a C# developer having worked with .Net since it was in beta.  Before that I mainly worked in C and C++.  I have been developing commercial software for more than 20 years.  I also mess around with microprocesors, but that's just for fun.  I live near Cambridge, England and at the moment I'm contracted to one of the departments at Cambridge University.

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