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posted by kerravon E-mail, Ligao, Free World North, 10.08.2021, 17:06

> > > My 2 GiB MS-DOS partition have low free space...
> > > (Windows 3.1, MS-Office, games, testing tools... :-) )
> >
> > Use a USB stick?
> PC with AMD Phenom II x2 550 and SSD 240 GiB Toshiba SATA 3.
https://www.techpowerup.com/cpu-specs/phenom-ii-x2-550-be.c604

The AMD Phenom II X2 550 BE was a desktop processor with 2 cores, launched in June 2009.


USB ports commonly existed before 2000 I believe.

Therefore I believe you have a USB port and
probably the ability to boot a USB stick.

You need a USB stick with 1 GB capacity. You
probably have this too, and this is what the
image was designed for.

You probably don't have a real floppy disk, so
you would need to burn a floppy image to USB
stick and boot that anyway. Unless you have a
USB stick with less than 1 GB capacity it
shouldn't make any difference whether you burn
a hard disk image or a floppy disk image.

> First partition: MS-DOS 6.00 (2 GiB)
> Second partition; Windows 7 SP1
Neither of the above things has the ability
to boot a floppy disk image that I am aware
of - that is the function of the PC, not the
Microsoft OS. However, the latter probably
allows you to run Virtualbox etc which would
allow you to mount a hard disk or floppy
image and boot from that. The image could
exist as an ordinary file on any capacity
USB stick with at least 1 GB free space in
the case of the hard disk image.

What am I missing? :-)

BFN. Paul.

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