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! Subject: Re: OpenDOS on an 8088 XT In-Reply-To: <199708120425.QAA09371@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Precedence: bulk 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