Hello, I'm trying to install MS-DOS on a Proxmox VM but despite converting the .img files to .iso, I couldn't boot a VM. I just have a warning that there's no bootble device. Any thought?
IMG files are floppy disk images, not CD-ROMs. Configure your emulator so it has a floppy "A" drive, configure it to boot from the floppy drive, and point it to a floppy disk image.
My 386SX Virtual machine running ms-dos 6.22 is not doing good right now. it installed fine but after rebooting ms-dos 6.22 the next day it was trying to look for a a: bootable floppy. I don't know but i possibly could've forgot the command "sys c:" after installtion.
A few years ago, I manually created a disk image using the MS-DOS 6.22 Supplemental Disk files in the order known to the dump, referring to the File Listing released by Microsoft. Coincidentally, the 5.25" and 3.5" disk images I created manually were later purchased. It was 100% identical to the dump from the original Supplement Disk.
When I created the disk image, I did not create it roughly and made it based on various information to make it as identical as possible to the original dump, but I was surprised that it matched like this. No matter how much I wanted to get the 5.25" inch, I couldn't get it, but at the right time, Verification and comparison were possible thanks to the data dumped by someone.
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I had no way to change 5.25" of it.
But I decided to make disk image with information of file listing from Microsoft in 2017
https://forum.winworldpc.com/discussion/comment/139412#Comment_139412
I compared my disk image (self-made) with uploaded one.
Wow, all SHA1 are identical with original dumped disk.
I also made diskimage "Microsoft MS-DOS 6.22 Supplemental Kit (3.5-720k)" in 2019
https://forum.winworldpc.com/discussion/comment/159110#Comment_159110
(3.5" of diskimage was already identical with original dumped disk.)
It was very rare media of it.
Link: https://mega.nz/file/fcsnzbzK#tDX_cHWZzRBfcVdiSshKzYlfzPSwgp9ZJLizjdvp2k4
When I created the disk image, I did not create it roughly and made it based on various information to make it as identical as possible to the original dump, but I was surprised that it matched like this.
No matter how much I wanted to get the 5.25" inch, I couldn't get it, but at the right time,
Verification and comparison were possible thanks to the data dumped by someone.