Re: AW: Xy on Mac revisited

[Russ Urquhart russurquhart1@xxxxxxxx]

Hi all,

I am chomping at the bit to get an intel based mac in order to try
Parallels, Vmware, or any of the other tools to let me run Xywrite
more natively. (I heard a rumor that for those mac users currently
using Virtual PC would be able to their Virtual PC disk images be
accessible from Parallels. This is just what i have heard, no
confirmation.)


As for you intrepid souls out there, i'd like to try and help but
don't yet have an Intel based Mac. (Anyone who wants to give/loan me
one, please contact me! :) )


As i have posted earlier, i have seen screenshots of DOS running
under Parallels, so I'm confident that it can be done. Another path
that may or may not help, is that you could use Bootcamp to create a
dual boot partition on your mac and install DOS there. (That's
assuming that it would be easier to install DOS this way.) After
having done that, you could then boot into OS X and Parallels will
find and use your DOS partition.


Good luck and please keep us informed on your progress.

Russ


On Jan 7, 2007, at 12:59 PM, Philip Friedman wrote:




-----Original Message-----

From: Lisa Kleinholz 
Have my new
macBook up & running and broken in a bit. Just installed Parallels
and
cannot make head or tail out of how to install MS-DOS. If anyone
would
be willing to help me off list after Jan 16 I would be much
obliged ...

The whole purpose of this gambit is to see if Xy4DOS will run more
comfortably on a mac under DOS than with Tame on XP. I promise a full
report (for non-techies) sometime in February.


Lisa,

I'm looking forward to this (and would be interested in the interim
stages, too, offlist or on) as I teeter on the brink of
supplementing my W2K Thinkpad with a Mac.  (I'm stuck in/on Xy3+
for now, but assume that what works for 4 in this context will
likely be good for 3+)


I looked at the parallels forum link you listed


http://forum.parallels.com/archive/index.php/t-3348.html


and agree that a lot of the posts seem either worthless or like
gibberish. Persisting, I found at post #8 a referral to
allbootdisks.com. promising bootable versions of DOS that work as
is with parallels, so maybe that is worth trying -- it seems fairly
clear and not to have too many steps


In any case, the allbootdisks site looks interesting as a source of
downloads for everything from early DOS versions (4.x) through XP,
and thus potentially useful for folks on this list even if they
have no Mac desires, though perhaps other such sources are already
known.


Philip


Lisa Kleinholz
www.kleinholz.com