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1. #Best virtual machine software for dos 6.22 install#
2. #Best virtual machine software for dos 6.22 drivers#

The first part of the install will ask you some questions and will be in 80x25 column text mode.Insert Windows For Workgroups 3.11 Disk 1 into the floppy drive, or insert the CD-ROM (you can make one using the floppies by copying all of the disks into the root filesystem of the CD-R), navigate to your floppy or CD-ROM drive, and type "SETUP".About 12 minutes later, you'll have a fully running DOS installation on the computer. After that, it will go through all three standard install floppies needing to switch them and pressing a key to continue. Once booted into MS-DOS 6.22 setup, you will need to setup the language (in my case US English), Date, and Time of the machine.If you need to format the partitions (have not been formatted) then you will need to do a FORMAT C:\ at the very least to format the OS Drive for the O/S to be installed and for it to be readable.If this was already setup by MaxBlast (usually is) it can be skipped. If you have not setup your partitions yet, MS-DOS 6.22 will require you use FDISK to do this - on an 8GB drive I'll usually setup 4 2GB Partitions on the drive using this - basically, 2GB Drive C Active Primary DOS, then a 3GB or so of Logical DOS Drive, and then 3 2GB Partitions in the Logical DOS Drive).Boot the Computer, let the DDO (if equipped) prompt to press a key to boot from Floppy, press that key, insert the MS-DOS 6.22 install Disk 1, and boot from it.

#Best virtual machine software for dos 6.22 drivers#

Once you get beyond the Pentium 166 you start to find that getting drivers that work in Windows For Workgroups 3.11 and DOS are quite scarce as that generation and over is pretty much designed to run Windows 95 or later. The newest card with drivers from Creative is a SoundBlaster AWE64, and a lot of modern LAN cards still have DOS/Windows NDIS Drivers. The newest cards I've seen that support WFW are the ATI Rage II PCI 3D Accelerators. The Pentium 60/66 is crippled by a bad FPU, terrible thermals, and overall poor design, while the 5x86 133 is still a true 486 running at 4x the bus speed. WFW came around at a time when the 486 was king. The reason I stop at the Pentium 60/66 or Am5x86 133 is wasted potential. a 10/100/gigabit PCI LAN card with appropriate WFW NDIS Drivers VGA for base functionality, Floppy Drive to install software, and an Ethernet card to connect to the LAN. DOS takes up around 3MB, Windows 8MB, leaving about 10MB for a minimal software setup. Anything under 4MB is vbery slow and pokey. Windows For Workgroups requires a 386 for the network stack to work properly.