From: Nate Bargmann <n...@n0nb.us> Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 06:15:18 -0600 > I'm curious if you can read the floppy directory contents using the > 'mdir' command from the mtools package? If you can do that as peter, > then that may point to a problem with qemu. Just a thought.
This is for a MS-DOS 5.0 installer diskette. peter@armada:/media/floppy0$ mdir Volume in drive A is DISK 1 Volume Serial Number is 0C74-0EEB Directory for A:/ COMMAND COM 47845 1991-11-11 5:00 AUTOEXEC BAT 36 1991-11-11 5:00 CONFIG SYS 13 1991-11-11 5:00 COUNTRY SYS 17069 1991-11-11 5:00 EGA SY_ 4107 1991-11-11 5:00 FORMAT COM 33087 1991-11-11 5:00 KEYB COM 14986 1991-11-11 5:00 KEYBOARD SYS 34697 1991-11-11 5:00 NLSFUNC EXE 7052 1991-11-11 5:00 SETUP EXE 73860 1991-11-11 5:00 SETUP INI 1975 1991-11-11 5:00 CV COM 716 1991-11-11 5:00 README 1ST 452 1991-11-11 5:00 DISPLAY SY_ 11186 1991-11-11 5:00 EGA CP_ 19714 1991-11-11 5:00 HIMEM SY_ 7916 1991-11-11 5:00 MODE CO_ 16834 1991-11-11 5:00 SETVER EX_ 7448 1991-11-11 5:00 ANSI SY_ 7185 1991-11-11 5:00 DEBUG EX_ 16898 1991-11-11 5:00 EDLIN EX_ 10441 1991-11-11 5:00 EMM386 EX_ 47605 1991-11-11 5:00 FASTOPEN EX_ 8927 1991-11-11 5:00 FDISK EXE 57224 1991-11-11 5:00 MEM EX_ 29726 1991-11-11 5:00 MIRROR CO_ 12811 1991-11-11 5:00 RAMDRIVE SY_ 3765 1991-11-11 5:00 SHARE EX_ 9312 1991-11-11 5:00 SMARTDRV SY_ 6295 1991-11-11 5:00 SYS CO_ 9672 1991-11-11 5:00 UNDELETE EX_ 9399 1991-11-11 5:00 UNFORMAT COM 18576 1991-11-11 5:00 XCOPY EX_ 11879 1991-11-11 5:00 DOSKEY CO_ 4730 1991-11-11 5:00 8514 VI_ 7305 1991-11-11 5:00 CGA GR_ 1768 1991-11-11 5:00 CGA IN_ 3330 1991-11-11 5:00 CGA VI_ 6920 1991-11-11 5:00 DOSSHELL CO_ 2231 1991-11-11 5:00 DOSSHELL EX_ 156431 1991-11-11 5:00 DOSSWAP EX_ 15492 1991-11-11 5:00 EGA GR_ 2729 1991-11-11 5:00 EGA IN_ 3333 1991-11-11 5:00 EGA VI_ 7012 1991-11-11 5:00 EGAMONO GR_ 2564 1991-11-11 5:00 HERC GR_ 1809 1991-11-11 5:00 HERC VI_ 6998 1991-11-11 5:00 MONO GR_ 301 1991-11-11 5:00 MONO IN_ 2990 1991-11-11 5:00 PACKING LST 2381 1991-11-11 5:00 PRINT EX_ 11061 1991-11-11 5:00 VGA GR_ 3593 1991-11-11 5:00 VGA VI_ 7236 1991-11-11 5:00 VGAMONO GR_ 3605 1991-11-11 5:00 APPNOTES TXT 8369 1991-11-11 5:00 DOSHELP HL_ 2844 1991-11-11 5:00 DOSSHELL HL_ 54344 1991-11-11 5:00 EDIT HL_ 17419 1991-11-11 5:00 HELP EX_ 8534 1991-11-11 5:00 RECOVER EX_ 7561 1991-11-11 5:00 DOS <DIR> 1996-09-01 8:24 61 files 911 598 bytes 456 192 bytes free > Perhaps using dd to make a raw image of the floppy and having qemu boot > from that may be an alternative. There are two bootable diskettes here. One is the MS-DOS 5.0 installer which gives the mdir above. The other is an Oberon0 installer. Machines here cold boot from each. The qemu virtual system boots from each image. sudo qemu-system-i386 -fda ~/disketteImageFile -vga std -boot a The qemu virtual system fails to boot from each diskette as a host device. sudo qemu-system-i386 -fda /dev/fd0 -vga std -boot a A bug report is warranted. Thanks for the help, ... Peter E. -- 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 12 Tel +1 360 639 0202 http://carnot.yi.org/ Bcc: peter at easthope. ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/E1XrgZb-0000sH-3i@armada.invalid