DOSBox Part 2: Creating, Handling, and Booting from Floppy Images | Linux Today

DOSBox Part 2: Creating, Handling, and Booting from Floppy Images

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Apr 16, 2018

Continuing on from the previous tutorial, we move on to boot DOS systems from floppy images. Many floppies contained games or other software that would have automatically booted once the system started (using the autoexec.bat script). This can be simulated by using a floppy image which is simply a file that represents an entire floppy disk drive.

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