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From: Mark Rae on 13 Sep 2006 04:34
"Colin Barnhorst" <colinbarharst(remove)@msn.com> wrote in message
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Colin,

> Why don't you guys set this up by private email?

I'd be happy to help the OP with an MS-DOS VHD - I was just waiting for
someone from MS to say that it wouldn't violate any licenses etc...


From: Steve Jain on 13 Sep 2006 12:29
On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 09:34:04 +0100, "Mark Rae"
<mark(a)markNOSPAMrae.com> wrote:

>"Colin Barnhorst" <colinbarharst(remove)@msn.com> wrote in message
>news:O%23APfTs1GHA.1256(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>
>Colin,
>
>> Why don't you guys set this up by private email?
>
>I'd be happy to help the OP with an MS-DOS VHD - I was just waiting for
>someone from MS to say that it wouldn't violate any licenses etc...
>
Why do you think MS they would say/allow that? It is still a licensed
OS. If you're going to start giving out OSes for free, what's next
Win95, Win98? Why not NT4, that's old too?

See the issue? MS isn't going to ok this. Plus, this isn't the place
to get or expect offical announcements or official answers from MS,
they (the MS employees that post here) have said as much before.

--
Cheers,
Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP
http://vpc.essjae.com/
I do not work for Microsoft.
From: augustus_meyer on 16 Sep 2006 09:30
I am running an old Basic app in a DOS-VPC, XP as host.
Had heavy CPU-load, 50% on a P4, 3GHz, in the beginning !
Found out, that old Basic program simply looped when waiting for keyboard
input, for example. DOS-app did not expect another program to run on same PC.
That was fine when DOS-Basic was only program on the original DOS-PC, not
good, when sharing CPU with XP-host because of VPC.
Had to modify the Basic sources, to implement real WAIT (for interrrupt).
Now it works fine.

Just to warn you.


"Mark Harby" wrote:

> How would you go about loading up an MS-DOS 6.22 VPC environment.
> Are the MS-DOS disks available through our MSDN Subscription ?, does anyone
> have a VHD already prepared that could be shared ?
>
> Please help as we need to re-compile an old MS-DOS app that has stopped
> working due to server change.
>
> Thanks
> Mark Harby
> Fovia (Innovation) Limited
>
From: Mark Harby on 21 Sep 2006 05:58
Mark
Many thanks for coming back on this, sorry I didn't replay earlier but been
away for a couple of weeks. I followed youe recommendations on booting from
the boot622.ima image and all works fine. However, when I try to install the
MS-DOS 6.22 disks from Microsoft (it's an upgrade even though it says
otherwise), I get disk read and then failure errors. I am using a USB floppy
on a laptop which seems to work ok until you try and do anything.

I think I will have to read up through these newsgroups on making an image
from the source disks that I can install from.

Thanks again.

Mark Harby
Nottingham
UK


"Mark Rae" wrote:

> "Colin Barnhorst" <colinbarharst(remove)@msn.com> wrote in message
> news:O%23APfTs1GHA.1256(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>
> Colin,
>
> > Why don't you guys set this up by private email?
>
> I'd be happy to help the OP with an MS-DOS VHD - I was just waiting for
> someone from MS to say that it wouldn't violate any licenses etc...
>
>
>
From: Steve Jain on 21 Sep 2006 14:41
On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 02:58:02 -0700, Mark Harby
<MarkHarby(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Mark
>Many thanks for coming back on this, sorry I didn't replay earlier but been
>away for a couple of weeks. I followed youe recommendations on booting from
>the boot622.ima image and all works fine. However, when I try to install the
>MS-DOS 6.22 disks from Microsoft (it's an upgrade even though it says
>otherwise), I get disk read and then failure errors. I am using a USB floppy
>on a laptop which seems to work ok until you try and do anything.
>
>I think I will have to read up through these newsgroups on making an image
>from the source disks that I can install from.
>
>Thanks again.
>
>Mark Harby
>Nottingham
>UK
>

Did you partition and format before your installation?

--
Cheers,
Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP
http://vpc.essjae.com/
I do not work for Microsoft.
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