On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 2:47 AM, heavytull <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I downloaded the 'seatools for DOS' diskette creator on seagate website. it's a windows program that creates the diskette; so a floppy disk must be present in the drive. running the program is ok, but creating the diskette fails, it says "the current diskette format not valid". while the diskette is blank, vfat, mounted and linked to a: in wine; so everything seems to be ok. > > It is same for the win98 DOS program which creates the boot diskette. It seems wine is not handling dos devices nicely, or there might be some misconfiguration somewhere. DOS support in Wine is somewhat bitrotted at this point. Please try using dosemu or one of the other dos emulators -- you'll probably have better luck.
