Need help with Gotek & 386

[Dokken]

I have a Gotek (flash floppy) and I'm trying to set up a 386 with MS-DOS 6.22. Target drive is a spinning HDD or preferably a CF card. The 386 has a HDD/floppy controller card and no on-board controller. I'm rusty on this era of PC and rusty on DOS.

I booted to a DOS 3.x boot floppy image (single disk) via the gotek and was able to format the CF card. So the CF card interface and CF card seem to work and be recognized by the PC and bios. I can pull the card and see the contents on my Mac.

Back to the gotek, I put the 3x DOS6.2 install .img files on the gotek along with the proper ff.cfg file. I can boot from that and the MS-DOS installer starts and even reformats the C: CF card. Then it asks me to insert installation floppy disk 1. and I'm stuck in a loop. it does not recognize the DISK1.img as install disk 1.

I read on vogons that the disk name needs to be 'DISK 1' with 6 spaces. I tried to rename the image file to DISK 1.img, doesn't work, I don't think the image file is the same as the disk name.

I'm using HXC program to create the image files. I've also tried just plain image files downloaded from various sources.

thanks for any help on this.

 

[Dokken]

I figured this out. I configured so many of these DOS PCs back then. And I remembered none of it.

using a 6.22 boot floppy:
fdisk
format c: /s
fdisk /mbr
copy *.* c:

the 386 now boots to the CF card drive c: in ms-dos 6.22.

 

[eight088]

Always a good feeling when you get something working! The only step I would have added was after fdisk /mbr I would have created a DOS directory on C drive and copied the contents to that location, making sure that command.com was in the root directory (which format c: /s should have taken care of).

Cheers