Reply 20 of 24, by eugeneg
I have been following two paths (cul-de-sacs).
I now have a VirtualBox host running FreeDOS. The problem I ran into there is that I could not share a drive between virtual and real PCs. I am sure this is possible as I have seen
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Sharing_files_with_DOS
But my brain is not large enough to make it work - on a 64 bit (Windows 7) PC.
I also have another track whereby I have bought an NTFS driver for DOS so that I can see my big disks when I boot off a floppy. The problem I have run into with this scenario is the error message "Stacker not installed". This despite having a CONFIG.SYS that includes
DEVICE=A:\STACKER\STACKER.COM
I can't just copy the whole of CONFIG & AUTOEXEC from the original failed DOS v5 image as when I type VER I get
Windows Millenium [Version 4.90.3000]
I feel sure this shouldn't be so hard. I could try again with the VM on a 32 bit XP machine, but I am really struggling to understand the what the instructions from the above web page are telling me to do and why.