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First post, by nudossi

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Hi,

I've tried to install a very old but still nice 16-bit dos simulation software. As it was commercial it has build-in some checking features whether it is installed from A: etc...

Anyway, when I try ti install it on my linux system, it claimes, that harddrive C: is not a boot device used by MSDOS 4.0 or higher...

Any way to convince this guy that everything is fine except that times have changed 😁 ?

Thanks, Torsten

Reply 1 of 1, by Jorpho

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I assume you're using DOSBox and that you're mounting everything correctly.

If the program is picky, you may be able to get somewhere by mounting a hard drive image using the "imgmount" command.

If that doesn't work, you can try mounting a hard drive image and then booting from a DOS floppy image with the "boot" command.

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