DOS on a Mac

Still an open topic, since a lot of Windows users are eagerly to find relief from its bugs and upgrades.
On my iBook I have MS-Virtual PC 7 w/ Windows 2000 Professional.
Works very well with Windows software, perfectly integrated with Mac environment.
Don't try to install a DOS application, though: it will not work.
I tried to install Connectix Virtual PC 6.1 and my IBM PC-DOS licensed copy. Had problems with keyboard layout recognition (Western Spanish). Above all VPC 6.1 and VPC 7 (now from Microsoft) cannot coexist, since they created omonimous folders. Even the rock solid Mac OS go havock.
Seems that Intel Mac, with Parallel, can run MS-DOS 6.2 ver.
Out of budget to buy a whole new machine, me.
Believe me: the DOS software is still the gold reference for text processing. Give a look to Grand View (from Symantec), or Nota Bene for DOS, or the unrivalled Norton Backup for DOS
Bye.

Virtual Machines allow running an operating system (here XP, but almost any possible) as a "guest" of another. The guest OS is given access to the physical resources of the host. On my Mac HD there is a large file which, when the VM is running, is seen as the "C" drive. If I insert a USB device I'm asked whether it is to be connected to the host or the guest. The guest can access the internet. I can copy something on one and paste it in the other, and drag files from one to the other.
VMWare is another vendor, and there are one or two free/shareware systems, but may not be so flexible. There is a comparison here, though it is a bit out of date.

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Thanks,
Jordan

Jordan Simkins wrote:
In disk Utility, it takes about five seconds before it comes up with a 'disk erase failed" message. I have tried your alternate option of creating a single partition to no avail. It continues to result in "disk erase failed". I thought one could reformat a drive from MS-DOS to a Mac formatted drive and vice versa. Maybe I am wrong. Any ideas?
Jordan
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Mitshko wrote:
Thank you OGELTHORPE and JoeyR,
Yes, I tried formatting in Ex FAT, MS DOS, and Mac Extended and did all kind of tests trying to copy from one computer to another. I have being reading in some forums also that some people have the same problem.
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