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First post, by Nic-93

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Im useing the dosbox svn imgmake command and there i am looking for to make a over 3 gigabyte hard drive image to use on windows 98, what would the -size be to create a 3 gigabyte hard drive image?

Reply 1 of 7, by Joey_sw

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Disk size are constructed by:
number of heads (or sides) (H)
number of tracks (or cylinders) per heads (T)
number of sectors per tracks (S)
number of bytes per sector = 512

in your case: 3GB = H * T * S * 512
where the H, T & S must be compatible with INT 13h spec, if the img are intended to be used for dosbox
Maximum value for T are 1024,
Maximum value for S are 63,
Maximum value for H are 255

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Reply 2 of 7, by Nic-93

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The image will be created from dosbox svn and there i shall tell it what size to make the imgmake, and im gonna use the img file in PC'em that needs a .img as the hard disk image. there the biggest i can make are with over 500

Last edited by Nic-93 on 2015-12-15, 14:17. Edited 1 time in total.

Reply 3 of 7, by Dominus

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Use bochs... 😉

AFAIK lock stock Dosbox SVN doesn't provide the functionality to make an hd image

Windows 3.1x guide for DOSBox
60 seconds guide to DOSBox
DOSBox SVN snapshot for macOS (10.4-11.x ppc/intel 32/64bit) notarized for gatekeeper

Reply 5 of 7, by Dominus

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Sample usage of a harddisc image in DOSBOX

Windows 3.1x guide for DOSBox
60 seconds guide to DOSBox
DOSBox SVN snapshot for macOS (10.4-11.x ppc/intel 32/64bit) notarized for gatekeeper

Reply 7 of 7, by Dominus

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Where you create it? You can probably pass a path or so...

Windows 3.1x guide for DOSBox
60 seconds guide to DOSBox
DOSBox SVN snapshot for macOS (10.4-11.x ppc/intel 32/64bit) notarized for gatekeeper