[vcf-midatlantic] PC needed for VCFed BBS

William Dudley wfdudley at gmail.com
Wed Apr 26 12:40:27 EDT 2017


I have DRDOS 7.something on 3 1/2 diskettes, but I'm sure your BBS would
throw a fit if you tried to run on that.

Bill


This email is free of malware because I run Linux.

On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 12:39 PM, William Dudley <wfdudley at gmail.com> wrote:

> Allbootdisks has only diskette images.  They have advertising links
> camoflaged to look like useful links.
>
> Also http://bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm is floppy images only.
>
> Yes, live Linux CD is an option.  I'm just going ahead and installing
> Xubuntu on it, only takes a few minutes.
> Then I get to see if the floppy drive in this thing even works.
>
> The CDROM drive is a laptop drive.  Seems to work OK.
>
> Bill
>
> This email is free of malware because I run Linux.
>
> On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 12:30 PM, Jameel Akari <jakari at bithose.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 26 Apr 2017, William Dudley via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
>>
>> Anyone know of a DOS 6.22 image that installs from a CDROM?
>>>
>>
>> http://www.allbootdisks.com/download/iso.html came up, but I have no
>> idea how legit they are.
>>
>> Otherwise, http://www.freedos.org/download/ might get you in the right
>> direction.
>>
>> A minimal GRUB bootloader might be able to do this if you roll your own.
>>
>> --
>> Jameel Akari
>>
>
>



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