Reply 20 of 22, by doshea
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Gopher666 wrote on 2021-02-26, 20:08:The thing is it's not that important for me if it's over 1.44mb because I will PXEload this anyway but for playing around purposes it's easier. Like In vmware you cannot attach in a larger floppy image, even if you do it will ignore the rest of the space over 1.44mb.
Bochs and Qemu apparently support 2.88MB floppies, although I note from my quick search that it sounds like Qemu determines what size the floppy drive is based on the initial image.
Gopher666 wrote on 2021-03-15, 16:31:The point for me would be to have an out of the box solution which requires: […]
The point for me would be to have an out of the box solution which requires:
1, No additional CD drives
2, No gotek or floppy
3, No secondary HDDYeah I already have that running what you mentioned just to PXE boot a regular DOS6.22 floppy which sees the disks then have another IDE HDD formatted to FAT16 with the installer sets ready on it.
Over the years I have made a fairly large (6GB) PXE collection with menus, various DOS floppies, Windows Rescue discs, Linux Live/Installers.
That sounds nice! Do you have any posts/documentation about this setup?
Although there was a lot of work with it I just absolutely love it that no need to look for installer sets and tools but everything is instantly available from the network and even for older machines which don't have boot roms I can just stick in a 3Com card and get it going.
I don't have any boot ROMs in my old NICs, so I want a flexible solution where I can PXE boot or use a floppy plus CD-ROM (or maybe other options).
I should probably do some reading up about flashrom and what devices I might need to purchase for my old NICs!
It occurred to me that EtherDFS might be a good solution in place of using the LAN Manager client, its aim is to not use much RAM, and I imagine it's smaller on disk too.