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installing DOS
Name: Lukasz Date: February 13, 2002 at 11:31:03 Pacific
Comment:
i have an old computer (486) and i need to install dos on it i formated hdd (maxtor 540 mb) using windows 98 bootdisk, and the ran the setup.exe from dos disk 1. when i restart mine computer it reads the diks then it doesnt do anything yeah these are not original dos disks :/ but i need the dos on that comp and i couldnt find anyone to get it from so i downloaded it :/ any ideas why does it happens?
Name: Winky Date: February 13, 2002 at 16:55:46 Pacific
Reply:
DR-DOS 7.03 free download for non-commercial users;
http://www.rayer.fbi.cz/dr-dos.703/drdos.htm
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Response Number 2
Name: Hen Date: February 20, 2002 at 19:45:05 Pacific
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did you format your harddrive using fat32??
in that case dos won't recognise the disk. you should use fdisk from the win98 bootdisk and remove the fat32 partition, reboot, disable large harddrive support and recreate a primary partition. format it and it should be fat16 and readable (read installable) by dos.
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Response Number 3
Name: Petit Jean Date: March 3, 2002 at 13:20:43 Pacific
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Try with this OS. Do not use FAT 32 with 16 bits OS.
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Response Number 4
Name: vijay Date: June 2, 2002 at 11:32:47 Pacific
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I need ms-dos 7.0 version, so that i can install on pc.
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