dpacbach wrote:
Hi onlyonemac,
I seem to remember that if you have a PC from the that era with a floppy drive and MS-DOS then you can run the INSTALL.COM file (an MS-DOS program) to install the IMAGE.BIN file onto the floppy drive, then just boot from the floppy and it should work. The install program, when run, will tell you that it is about to erase the contents of drive A: with the image file--when you press "y" it will do so. If you have another way though to get the image onto the floppy which works better for you then I imagine that would work too, as the installation program does nothing but copy it over. If you like I can give you the source to the INSTALL.COM file if you'd rather look at it or assemble it yourself.
David
Any Unix-like system (Unix, OS X, etc) will have dd, which can be used to blast an image to a floppy. Furthermore, most virtual machines can load a raw image file on the host system directly as an emulated floppy.
EDIT:
In fact, yes, just rename image.bin to image.img, and VirtualBox will accept it as a floppy disk, from which DS-OS can be booted without any problems.