First post, by Falcon_H
Hello!
An embarrassingly long time ago, I scored an IBM PC-XT. It had 640k of RAM, a SCSI drive, and monochrome graphics when I bought it. I later installed a Hercules clone. The hard drive had been wiped, so I decided that this clean slate was the perfect opportunity to install a CF card adapter. I bought a lo-tech CF card adapter (I had to unplug the SCSI drive, because it was interfering with the CF adapter BIOS) and began attempting to install DOS. I tried using virtual machines, bootable USB tools (I think rufus is the one I used) and even plugging the card into a laptop and using disk images on USB drives to install DOS on the card. I got a brief taste of victory when I got the PC-XT to say "starting MS-DOS" , but it hung up indefinitely. I eventually admitted defeat and seceded that I would try using floppies, but I then discovered that the floppy drove is broken.
The PC is able to boot to BASIC and the CF card's bios seems to work fine and recognizes my card, so I doubt the problem is hardware related. Does anyone have any guesses what I am doing wrong?
Thank you for the help!