Virtual floppy for 8086?

[JT64]

1. Use VFD on your new computer and open a CMD window
2. Make sure you have a right sized floppy in drive A:
3. Type "DISKCOPY B: A: /V" (regarding you have set VFD to drive B)
4. Boot a computer that has a DD 5.25" and a 3.5" drive (boot with the disk you just made). Exit the installation program if it starts
5. Make sure you got a DD floppy in the DD 5.25" disk drive
6. Type "FORMAT B: /f:360 /S"
7. then copy the files you need for the instalation onto the 360Kb disk

You should now be able to boot the 360Kb disk on your XT and maybe start the installaton.

If i had that much hardware laying around no problem :D, i do not have an extra IO only the onboard and i suspect it only support 720. So i can not put in a 1.44 in my XT and do not have a 5.25 only my trusty 720.

I have a 1.44 floppydrive in my new computer, but even with bios set to 720 the disks they are not compatible with the XT drive floppies.

Even tried it with VMware can not read them, and the one formated on the XT can not be read on new machine.

I have not much use for the 1.44 disk images until i get an extra IO-card and floppydriver.

And as trixter pointed out the disk-id prevents many programs from been copied to same folder and use of subst.

I was quite happy using the HD as master bootdevice but it seem like i should change to the CF and make all installation on the new computer.

Maybe end of story.JT