dos on a dell laptop
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Name: me7
Date: March 20, 2004 at 23:04:38 Pacific
Subject: dos on a dell laptop
OS: xp
CPU/Ram: 182
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Comment: does anyone know how to install dos operating system on a dell latitude c640 ???????????????????????????????????? old skool
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Response Number 1
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Name: Mick C
Date: March 21, 2004 at 04:38:37 Pacific
Subject: dos on a dell laptop |
Reply: (edit)<Spec> The Latitude C640--a refresh of another Dell business-focused laptop, the Latitude C610--has a modular bay located conveniently on the front that can hold an optical drive (in this instance, a DVD-ROM/CD-RW combination drive) or the included floppy drive. Most DOS operating systems are installed via a floppydisk install set, with disk 1 being bootable to transfer the OS to the harddrive. Do you have the 'included floppy drive' unit? PowerLoad Home Page
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Name: SkipCox
Date: March 21, 2004 at 09:23:01 Pacific
Subject: dos on a dell laptop |
Reply: (edit)Disk 1 of a dos set will boot and start setup for you. Just put it in the floppy drive and start the computer. Skip
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Name: JackG
Date: March 21, 2004 at 23:11:45 Pacific
Subject: dos on a dell laptop |
Reply: (edit)My, what a waste of disk drive space. As you will have to re-FDISK the drive and create a primary bootable partition of only 2GB and then format it for DOS before you can install it. Unless you were planning to install a DOS only version of Windows 98/ME, which supports FAT32 partitions.
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Response Number 5
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Name: Wengier
Date: March 22, 2004 at 05:02:40 Pacific
Subject: dos on a dell laptop |
Reply: (edit)Why only 2GB? And why a DOS only version of Windows 98/ME?? This "DOS" is NOT a installable version of DOS. JackG almost always gives incorrect information about this. Most newer versions of DOS support FAT32 and larger HD, such as FreeDOS and ROM-DOS 7.10. See this page for more information: http://newdos.yginfo.net/dosfat32.htm ---------------
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Response Number 6
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Name: Mick C
Date: March 22, 2004 at 05:24:23 Pacific
Subject: dos on a dell laptop |
Reply: (edit)What I will say is. Is this is an example of insufficient information from the original poster. (Who is the only one not to make a comment I notice again!) Yes the harddrive size does make a difference. But JackG you are making assumptions based on lack of facts! Last Dell Latitude user I dealt with had purchased his laptop second hand WITHOUT the Floppy Drive!! PowerLoad Home Page
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