Hi there. Yesterday I came across my old copy of Office Works for DOS. Its on four floppy disks. I want to install it with DOSBox just for the hell of it really but I'm having trouble doing so.

First, I mounted the C drive as a folder in my actual C drive (as I always do), then I mounted the A drive as my actual A drive (yep I do infact have a floppy drive 😀) with the first OW disk in it. Then I went through the installation process. When it told me to insert disk 2, I did so but nothing would happen.

Of course then I realised that it is the first disk thats being mounted and not the actual drive. So then I tried copying the contents of all four disks to the folder I mounted as the C drive, and tried to install it from there. But it simply stopped and asked for disk 1.

Then I tried mounting the C drive as a new, empty folder and I mounted the A drive as the folder that contained the contents of the four disks. When I tried to install it like that, it caused errors and flickering on the installation menu.

Lastly, I tried manually extracting the exe files (from the four disks) that were already on my hard drive but then I couldn't find an exe/batch file that would actually start OW.

Therefore, is the a way to install OW from multiple floopy disks? Also, I apologise for the long-winded way I have explained this.