The DosBox readme says:
"floppy: Specifies a floppy image. DOSBox will automatically identify the disk geometry (360K, 1.2MB, 720K, 1.44MB, etc)."
I am easily able to successfully mount a folder as a floppy drive. How do I specify what TYPE of floppy I need the folder to be (3.5in or 5.25 in)?
you don't need to. It's not a floppy IMAGE...
Hmm.
Let me give some more detail-
I'm using an old compression utility called "Teledisk" to un-compress files having Teledisk's native "TD0" format.
From within the Teledisk program, when I try to "Copy files to disk" (uncompress the .td0 files to my dosbox a: drive) the program says "Wrong drive type - Can't put 3 1/2 low-density image on a 5 1/4 low-density drive!"
So I'm guessing that Dosbox mounts folders as 5 1/4 in. floppy drives by default?
.td0 files can only be un-compressed with Teledisk by writing to floppies... and I'm not planning on getting a floppy drive if I can avoid it 😀
You can't restore to a folder this way.
1+1=10
In this case you can't mount a directory as a floppy, you have to mount a floppy image instead.
Download the attached file and unzip it somewhere, then run in dosbox:
imgmount a floppy.img -t floppy
from this moment when you read/write from drive a: in dosbox, you are actually reading/writing from the floppy image.
teledisk may use lowlevel floppy io (below int13) so this may not work at all.
In that case something like bochs may work.
Try this. Virtual Floppy Drive
http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/vfd.html
I really appreciate the help guys. Thanks. I'll give it another try with this information!
wrote:you don't need to. It's not a floppy IMAGE...
Exactly. And I like the advantages of this, most of the time you can copy the contents of the install disks to one folder, mount the folder as a floppy and install. Just like that.
Unless the install program reads the disk number or expects a change in disk labels, it works like a charm.
