i286 compatable OS?

[deadly7]

wtf would be the point of making an image of something that's like 2mb big.

[Joe]

Are you stupid deadly? <3

Phone lines, or even cable lines, have quite a hard time of transfering physical disks across them. If you're going to send someone a floppy disk over the internet, you're going to either need a slingshot (and drivers for it), or a disk image.

[MyndFyre]

wtf would be the point of making an image of something that's like 2mb big.

I have DOS 6.0 and 6.22 floppies here, but they're so old they're badly degraded.  I would love to get my hands on floppy images so that I can have them around permanently.  Apparently so are my Windows 3.1 disks.  I know one of my (29) Windows 95 disks is bad, but I've imaged all of them and I can install with them.

I like to use DOS for VMs; I'd use FreeDOS, but it's not 100% binary compatible yet (as my tests have shown with ATAPICDD.SYS).  But running things like the SimCity Terrain Editor in a DOS box through Windows XP doesn't work (characters get nuts); I had to run it through my VM to get it to look right.