Installing msdos 6.22

[Guest]

I have down loaded the setup.exe for msdos 6.2. What I want to do is install
it on a blank hard drive. Can I copy this file to a cd and install it onto
the hard drive or do I have to use floppies?

 

[Guest]

I should clerify, It's an older computer that I only want msdos on so I can
run older msdos games. I don't want any version of windows on this PC.

 

[Plato]

I have down loaded the setup.exe for msdos 6.2. What I want to do is install
it on a blank hard drive. Can I copy this file to a cd and install it onto
the hard drive or do I have to use floppies?

Ask the company from where you bought ms-dos 6.2 from.

 

[Guest]

I downloaded it from Microsoft. Only I jusy realized I need an earlier
version of dos first. I know how to boot into dos using the 98 start-up disc,
but I want to install dos onto the hard drive so I don't need to use the boot
disc all the time. How can I do this myself?

 

[Guest]

If you have a 6.22 boot disk
(If you don't have one go to www.bootdisk.com and make one)
partition your HHD first using fdisk, than format HHD and install DOS 6.22.

 

[Box134]

Oy vey! You are mixing up a few things. Your subject line says 6.22 and your
body says 6.2. Different things.

As far as I can recall, 6.2 was an update for 6.0, 6.22 was a standalone
version of MS DOS. So if you indeed do have DOS 6.2, you'd need 6.0 already
on your computer. If you have 6.22, you can install directly. And yes, I
think you'd be safest doing it from floppies because it would probably
prompt you to insert the next disk. I'm not sure how you'd navigate through
that with a CD.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS

If you really get to the point of installing 6.22 look at this:

http://www.windowsreinstall.com/install/msdos/install622/page1.htm

Keep in mind that although MS DOS is obsolete, MS is still pissy about
anyone using it without buying it, as has been darkly hinted at here. So if
you just want it to run obsolete games on a standalone computer, why not use
a freeware DOS? Look at the Wikipedia page for FreeDOS or DR-DOS.

 

[Ghostrider]

I have down loaded the setup.exe for msdos 6.2. What I want to do is install
it on a blank hard drive. Can I copy this file to a cd and install it onto
the hard drive or do I have to use floppies?

IIRC, MS-DOS 6.X comes on 5 or 6 high-density floppy diskettes.
Once the boot files have been transferred to the hard drive along
with the supporting files for the CD drive, and the autoexec.bat
and config.sys files have been configured to run a CD drive, then
it should be possible to copy the DOS files to its own directory
on the HD.

 

[Frank]

IIRC, MS-DOS 6.X comes on 5 or 6 high-density floppy diskettes.
Once the boot files have been transferred to the hard drive along
with the supporting files for the CD drive, and the autoexec.bat
and config.sys files have been configured to run a CD drive, then
it should be possible to copy the DOS files to its own directory
on the HD.

MSDOS 6.22 Is on three floppies plus a blank diskette. Then if needed
the 5.0 supplaments. I copied from 5 1/4 floppies to 3 1/5 1.44
floppies
years ago. MSDOS was sold both as full and upgrade. To install the
upgrade version one must boot with a MSDOS boot disk first then
execute
SETUP.EXE.
As an aside I have never been able to find a downloadable version from
Microsoft. Maybe a warez site.

 

[Plato]

IIRC, MS-DOS 6.X comes on 5 or 6 high-density floppy diskettes.

6.22 is on 3 disks. And does NOT come with cdrom drivers.

 

[Ghostrider]

6.22 is on 3 disks. And does NOT come with cdrom drivers.

Correct. On checking, *my* MS-DOS 6.22 installation setup of 5 HD
diskettes consisted of all the expanded MS-DOS files plus all of
the supplemental DOS fileset. And it also contained SCSI drivers
since we were using SCSI external HD and CD drives in that time
era, with pre-programmed autoexec.bat and config.sys files to make
the transfer of the files to Drive C (and other partitions) from
the external SCSI HD (and later CD-R) easier. Can't quite do it
this way with Windows but Ghost, TrueImage, etc., comes close.