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Running MS-DOS under VPC 2004

Source: microsoft.public.virtualpc
Sent: 09/12/2006
From: Mark Harby
Message:

How would you go about loading up an MS-DOS 6.22 VPC environment.
Are the MS-DOS disks available through our MSDN Subscription ?, does anyone
have a VHD already prepared that could be shared ?

Please help as we need to re-compile an old MS-DOS app that has stopped
working due to server change.

Thanks
Mark Harby
Fovia (Innovation) Limited

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Re: Running MS-DOS under VPC 2004

Sent: 09/12/2006
From: (email address - cut out)
Message:

Just use FreeDOS. V1.0 was released a couple of days ago.

Mark Rae wrote:

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> "Mark Harby" <Mark (email address - cut out)> wrote in message
> news:(email address - cut out)...
>
> > How would you go about loading up an MS-DOS 6.22 VPC environment.
>
> Same was as you would install MS-DOS onto a physical machine...
>
> > Are the MS-DOS disks available through our MSDN Subscription?,
>
> They're certainly available for download. I'm an MSDN Universal subscriber
> (until the end of the month after which I'm being "transitioned"...)
>
> > does anyone have a VHD already prepared that could be shared ?
>
> Hmm - assuming there are no legal / licensing issues with that, I could do
> that for you. I'd need one of the "guys" to say it's OK first, though...

Re: Running MS-DOS under VPC 2004

Sent: 09/12/2006
From: "Mark Rae" <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

"Mark Harby" <Mark (email address - cut out)> wrote in message
news:(email address - cut out)...

Same was as you would install MS-DOS onto a physical machine...

They're certainly available for download. I'm an MSDN Universal subscriber
(until the end of the month after which I'm being "transitioned"...)

Hmm - assuming there are no legal / licensing issues with that, I could do
that for you. I'd need one of the "guys" to say it's OK first, though...

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> How would you go about loading up an MS-DOS 6.22 VPC environment.
> Are the MS-DOS disks available through our MSDN Subscription?,
> does anyone have a VHD already prepared that could be shared ?

Re: Running MS-DOS under VPC 2004

Sent: 09/12/2006
From: "Mark Rae" <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

<(email address - cut out)> wrote in message
news:(email address - cut out)...

I'd never heard of that until today. Looks excellent.
http://www.freedos.org/

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> Just use FreeDOS. V1.0 was released a couple of days ago.

Re: Running MS-DOS under VPC 2004

Sent: 09/12/2006
From: "Colin Barnhorst" <colinbarharst(remove)@msn.com>
Message:

Why don't you guys set this up by private email?

"Mark Rae" <(email address - cut out)> wrote in message
news:(email address - cut out)...

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> "Mark Harby" <Mark (email address - cut out)> wrote in message
> news:(email address - cut out)...
>
>> How would you go about loading up an MS-DOS 6.22 VPC environment.
>
> Same was as you would install MS-DOS onto a physical machine...
>
>> Are the MS-DOS disks available through our MSDN Subscription?,
>
> They're certainly available for download. I'm an MSDN Universal subscriber
> (until the end of the month after which I'm being "transitioned"...)
>
>> does anyone have a VHD already prepared that could be shared ?
>
> Hmm - assuming there are no legal / licensing issues with that, I could do
> that for you. I'd need one of the "guys" to say it's OK first, though...
>

Re: Running MS-DOS under VPC 2004

Sent: 09/13/2006
From: Steve Jain <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 09:34:04 +0100, "Mark Rae"
<(email address - cut out)> wrote:

Why do you think MS they would say/allow that? It is still a licensed
OS. If you're going to start giving out OSes for free, what's next
Win95, Win98? Why not NT4, that's old too?

See the issue? MS isn't going to ok this. Plus, this isn't the place
to get or expect offical announcements or official answers from MS,
they (the MS employees that post here) have said as much before.

--
Cheers,
Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP
http://vpc.essjae.com/
I do not work for Microsoft.

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>"Colin Barnhorst" <colinbarharst(remove)@msn.com> wrote in message
>news:(email address - cut out)...
>
>Colin,
>
>> Why don't you guys set this up by private email?
>
>I'd be happy to help the OP with an MS-DOS VHD - I was just waiting for
>someone from MS to say that it wouldn't violate any licenses etc...
>

Re: Running MS-DOS under VPC 2004

Sent: 09/13/2006
From: "Mark Rae" <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

"Colin Barnhorst" <colinbarharst(remove)@msn.com> wrote in message
news:(email address - cut out)...

Colin,

I'd be happy to help the OP with an MS-DOS VHD - I was just waiting for
someone from MS to say that it wouldn't violate any licenses etc...

Show quoted text

> Why don't you guys set this up by private email?

RE: Running MS-DOS under VPC 2004

Sent: 09/16/2006
From: augustus_meyer
Message:

I am running an old Basic app in a DOS-VPC, XP as host.
Had heavy CPU-load, 50% on a P4, 3GHz, in the beginning !
Found out, that old Basic program simply looped when waiting for keyboard
input, for example. DOS-app did not expect another program to run on same PC.
That was fine when DOS-Basic was only program on the original DOS-PC, not
good, when sharing CPU with XP-host because of VPC.
Had to modify the Basic sources, to implement real WAIT (for interrrupt).
Now it works fine.

Just to warn you.

"Mark Harby" wrote:

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> How would you go about loading up an MS-DOS 6.22 VPC environment.
> Are the MS-DOS disks available through our MSDN Subscription ?, does anyone
> have a VHD already prepared that could be shared ?
>
> Please help as we need to re-compile an old MS-DOS app that has stopped
> working due to server change.
>
> Thanks
> Mark Harby
> Fovia (Innovation) Limited
>

Re: Running MS-DOS under VPC 2004

Sent: 09/21/2006
From: Mark Harby
Message:

Mark
Many thanks for coming back on this, sorry I didn't replay earlier but been
away for a couple of weeks. I followed youe recommendations on booting from
the boot622.ima image and all works fine. However, when I try to install the
MS-DOS 6.22 disks from Microsoft (it's an upgrade even though it says
otherwise), I get disk read and then failure errors. I am using a USB floppy
on a laptop which seems to work ok until you try and do anything.

I think I will have to read up through these newsgroups on making an image
from the source disks that I can install from.

Thanks again.

Mark Harby
Nottingham
UK

"Mark Rae" wrote:

Show quoted text

> "Colin Barnhorst" <colinbarharst(remove)@msn.com> wrote in message
> news:(email address - cut out)...
>
> Colin,
>
> > Why don't you guys set this up by private email?
>
> I'd be happy to help the OP with an MS-DOS VHD - I was just waiting for
> someone from MS to say that it wouldn't violate any licenses etc...
>
>
>

Re: Running MS-DOS under VPC 2004

Sent: 09/21/2006
From: Steve Jain <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 02:58:02 -0700, Mark Harby
<(email address - cut out)> wrote:

Did you partition and format before your installation?

--
Cheers,
Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP
http://vpc.essjae.com/
I do not work for Microsoft.

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>Mark
>Many thanks for coming back on this, sorry I didn't replay earlier but been
>away for a couple of weeks. I followed youe recommendations on booting from
>the boot622.ima image and all works fine. However, when I try to install the
>MS-DOS 6.22 disks from Microsoft (it's an upgrade even though it says
>otherwise), I get disk read and then failure errors. I am using a USB floppy
>on a laptop which seems to work ok until you try and do anything.
>
>I think I will have to read up through these newsgroups on making an image
>from the source disks that I can install from.
>
>Thanks again.
>
>Mark Harby
>Nottingham
>UK
>

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