Mail Archives: opendos/2000/09/04/03:09:23
Paul, it was on the list here several times before but you must have
missed it.
You can order the book "DR DOS Complete" by Caldera Press, prive US29.00,
ISBN 11-889492-03-5, which is supposed to even include the scource code
on a CD, with the installable DR DOS 7.02, which will surely be
comprehensive enough to provide you with everything you need. I don't
think there is that much in v7.03 that you can't get from the read files
after you install the DOS.It appears that some people have had problems
and some have not, depending on what they expected out of DOS and how
they used it. If you go back through the archives you can find out quite
a bit of information.
Someone got the book from Cheapbytes. I went to Walden Books and they
can order it. Super Crown Books can see it on the computer database but
are not allowed to order it through their distributor.
BOB "DOMAN" MOSS 'You should eat chocolate every day'
On Sun, 3 Sep 2000 09:46:06 -0400 (EDT) "Paul O. Bartlett"
<bartlett AT smart DOT net> writes:
> On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, Charles Dye wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Paul O. Bartlett wrote:
> >
> > > Also, has anyone actually installed and used DR-DOS with
> dual
> > > booting in a different partition on a HD with Windows *98* (not
> 95, not
> > > NT, not 2000)?
> >
> > I dual-boot between Win98 and DR DOS on my home system, using the
> > LOADER.COM from DR DOS 7.03. Boot files for both operating
> systems
> > reside on my C: drive, but the bulk of Windows 98 lives in
> E:\WINDOWS
> > (a FAT32 volume.)
> >
> > [remainder snipped for space]
>
> Thanks very much for the response. As for using DR-DOS 7.03, I
> have had some response that 7.03 is buggy and 7.02 is better.
>
> Anyway, my main concern is not to mess up what I already have on
> my
> C: drive, which is the only physical hard disk I have on my system.
> Not
> having all the documentation yet, I am supposing so far that first
> I
> would have to defragment the drive using something like the 'doze
> defragmenter to make sure that things are compacted. Then I would
> use
> something like Partition Magic (which I have not acquired yet) to
> create a new partition, which I suppose would be D:. (Presumably
> this
> would bump my Zip and CD drives down to E: and F:. They are now D:
> and
> E:.) I want to *keep* my current 'doze system, which is why I would
> think that I need to use something like Partition Magic rather than
> FDISK to create a FAT16 partition.
>
> After creating the partition for DR-DOS, do I need to format it
> ahead of time before installing DR-DOS? I would think so. I
> downloaded DR-DOS 7.02 and expanded it into a strictly 8.3 directory
> tree (C:\drdos) under 'doze. Could I then reboot into MS-DOS mode
> and
> use C:\drdos\format.com to format the new partition for DR-DOS?
> And,
> that done, could I install DR-DOS from C:\drdos?
>
> Certainly, before I do anything I am going to try to get ahold
> of
> more documentation. I am very grateful for all the responses I have
> had on this list, but that is no excuse for RTFM. :-) There is a
> large
> Dosbook.ex_ file in the directory, but I think that it has to be
> manipulated first before it is readable.
>
> --
> Paul mailto:bartlett AT smart DOT net
> ..........................................................
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