Van Zan wrote:
Would you mind telling me what I'm doing wrong with VMWare? (i'll never get better unless I learn)...I selected an "MS-DOS" os when the Virtual Machine Wizard so i cant understand why its looking for NTLDr of WinNT...so it must be the dos 6.22 disks right?
Actually, when you tell VMWare that you're going to use MS-DOS on that virtual machine, you are just setting some options for the VM to work correctly. You still need a bootable floppy or HD partition with MS-DOS installed on it for booting the VM. If it is a floppy, it means a bootable floppy created on a machine with MS-DOS or the original setup disks for the full version of MS-DOS.
The error message about NTLDR suggests that you are trying to boot with a floppy that was formatted in a NT/2000/XP machine, since the boot sector created by these operating systems will look for NTLDR. If the floppy was formated by MS-DOS the boot sector would look for IO.SYS and MSDOS.SYS and would print the familiar "Non system disk or disk error" message.
You did not mention from where you downloaded MS-DOS 6.22, but this could mean that you've got a damaged image file or that you simply put the files on an NT/2000/XP formatted floppy. I don't want to post addresses of sites that offer MS-DOS image files for download, because I believe this is illegal (despite the comments about MS-DOS becoming abandonware). If you want to go ahead and learn something more with VMWare, you can try FreeDOS (http://www.freedos.org). Download the image file for the 1.44 install disk and use Rawrite to dump the image on a floppy, then tell VMWare to use this floppy for booting.
Regards,
Major Grubert
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