delorie.com/archives/browse.cgi   search  
Mail Archives: opendos/2010/01/02/12:35:10.2

X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to opendos-bounces using -f
X-Recipient: opendos AT delorie DOT com
From: "bob klahn" <ccoky AT iglou DOT com>
To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject: MS-DOS 6.22
Message-ID: <MSGID_1=3a124=2f311_fe2542d4@fidonet.org>
Date: Thursday, 01 Oct 2009 22:16:00 -0500
X-Mailer: Internet Rex gateway (2.29)
X-Fido-From: bob klahn, 1:124/311
X-Fido-To: MIKE TRIPP
MIME-Version: 1.0
X-Declude-Sender: ccoky AT iglou DOT com [67.131.57.16]
X-Declude-Spoolname: 98443535.eml
X-Declude-RefID:
X-Note: Please send abuse reports to abuse AT fewpb DOT net
X-Declude-Note: Scanned by Declude 4.4.0 "http://www.declude.com/x-note.htm"
X-Declude-Scan: Outgoing Score [9] at 12:21:38 on 02 Jan 2010
X-Declude-Tests: BADHEADERS [8], DYNHELO [2]
X-Country-Chain: UNITED STATES->destination
X-Declude-Code: 8010000e
X-Declude-Recipcount: 1
Organization: The Electric and Water Plant Board of the City of Frankfort Kentucky
X-Identity: 67.131.57.16 | | delorie.com
Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com

Originally to: MIKE TRIPP

 KK>> Now do I have to make three MS-DOS Boot disks and expand the files
 KK>> onto the right disks? Disk 1 Disk 2 and Disk 3

 MT> Nope...works like installing Windows.  Disk1 is bootable
 MT> and AUTOEXEC runs setup routine which walks you through
 MT> FDISK and FORMAT options to prep the hard disk, and calls
 MT> EXPAND itself to extract files, prompts you to swap
 MT> floppies, etc.

 I have always found, if you have a bootable disk, you can just
 expand all the files to a single directory, and not bother with
 the floppies.

 KK>> Any easy way to do this, so I have a "working" copy of MS-DOS 6.22
 KK>> on 1.44 floppies? Ready to install if need be, I have a
 KK>> workstation running MS-DOS 6.22 connecting to my server.

 ...

BOB KLAHN bob DOT klahn AT sev DOT org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn

... I took the road less traveled ... and fell in a hole.
 * Silver Xpress V4.5/P [Reg]


- Raw text -


  webmaster     delorie software   privacy  
  Copyright © 2019   by DJ Delorie     Updated Jul 2019