I have an IBM 300PL that I want to put DOS on. I’ve taken the hard drive out and connected it via IDE to SATA adapter to my modern computer. I then downloaded an ISO of DOS 6.22 from allbootdisks.com and burned that to a DVD.
I can boot the system via the DVD and DOS will start with one error: Device driver not found: ‘BANANA’ which I understand is because MCSDEX can’t find the appropriate driver files.
It doesn’t seem to do anything but cut out support for a CD-ROM, as DOS boots to A:\> afterwards.
I then used diskpart in windows to remove all the data on the hard drive and leave a single 2GB FAT16 partition. I then booted again from the DVD and used FORMAT /S :C to copy the system which it does complete with success. However if I try and boot from the drive during setup, it will try it, the prompt fill flash a few times, move down a few spaces, then back, before skipping the drive and booting to windows instead.
I’m a bit confused why this isn’t working. If anyone else has some input, I would be very appreciative.
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For a full DOS install, you have to have all DOS disks (not just a boot disk).
“I’ve taken the hard drive out and connected it via IDE to SATA adapter to my modern computer.”
“…the prompt fill flash a few times, move down a few spaces, then back, before skipping the drive and booting to windows instead.”
Don’t attempt this on a machine that has Windows already on it. You could potentially bork the installation of it. Do it from the machine that will have the DOS drive installed on it.
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