Message-Id:	<3.0.2.32.19970812102140.007a3b10@maila.wm.edu>
Date:	Tue, 12 Aug 1997 10:21:40 -0400
To:	opendos AT delorie DOT com
From:	Rik! <rmeber AT maila DOT wm DOT edu>
Subject:	Re: OpenDOS on an 8088 XT
In-Reply-To:	<199708120425.QAA09371@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz>
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At 04:25 PM 8/12/97 +1200, you wrote:
>You need to modify the dos boot sector as well as copy the .com files;
>the SYS command should do this for you.  Can you create a bootable
>diskette on another system that is already running OpenDOS?? That would
>be the easiest...
>
>(on a computer already running OpenDOS)
>SYS B: (or whatever the 5.25" drive is called)
>cd OPENDOS
>copy SYS.* B:
>copy EDIT.* B:
>
>(on the XT)
>boot from A: with the diskette you just made
>DIR C:  (make sure the existing C: drive is seen ok)
>SYS C:
>mkdir c:\OPENDOS
>copy edit.* c:\OPENDOS
>edit c:\config.sys (I like to have buffers=24, files=20, history=on,333,on)
>edit c:\autoexec.bat (make sure it has c:\OPENDOS in your path)
>
>then reboot the XT.
>
>Of course, the supplied setup program *should* work, but it did sound
>like it was picking up the wrong executable or something like that.
>
>If you don't already have a computer running OpenDOS let me know.
>
>Mark.
>
yow! thanks, i totally forgot about the SYS command. haven't really used
DOS since Win95 came out. it'll take me awhile, but i'll be able to do it.
i have three computers: a P133 running OpenDOS, Win95, NT 4 Workstation,
and Linux with a 3.5" HD floppy drive and a parallel-port Zip drive; a
486DX2/66 running Win95 with 3.5" HD and 5.25" HD floppy drives; and the
8088 XT running MS-DOS 3.30 with a 5.25" DD floppy drive. i'm gonna have to
do a LOT of disk swapping and probly install OpenDOS temporarily on the
486, but i think i can get it to work. i pretty much got the whole disk
swapping down when i was transferring OpenDOS over to the XT. i think this
time, tho, i'm just going to try to get the XT to use the Zip drive.

fun fun fun! :) well, it's better then working...
rik eberhardt
optikal studios

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