![]() Won't boot, just boot the CD and go fix it.Īnother option is to put the hard drive into a system with a floppy, Messed up CONFIG.SYS or AUTOEXEC.BAT bad enough that it Reboot and you should get up on a hard-drive based system. Wish from the CD (or UNZIP if you saved them as ZIPS).Īnd thats it - you are basically up and running. Use XCOPY to copy over the \DOS and whatever other directories you Install (add HIMEM, EMM386 if you wish, RAMDRIVE if you wish etc.) Copy over your CD driver, CONFIG.SYS andĪUTOEXEC.BAT files, and tweak them as you wish for your hard drive Use FDISK to create a DOS partition, and FORMAT/S to format it and Then, just boot the CD, which will get you to an A:\> DOS prompt. On the CD and just unzip them to the hard drive. With all the small 3rd party utilities you like. ![]() With the stuff you want to be able to install - probably at least a DOSĭirectory with the DOS utilities, and perhaps a BIN or CMDS directory The burn a CD with that boot floppy image, and the rest of the CD filled XCOPY, a text editor and an UNZIP are on the floppy, although theseĬould be on the CD if you like (once you boot the floppy, you will be The CD-ROM driver and MSCDEX (and appropriate CONFIG.SYS andĪUTOEXEC.BAT files to load them), I'd also make sure FDISK, FORMAT, The system, do FORMAT/S on a floppy to create a bootable disk. If you have DOS running somewhere else, this is dead easy. all you need to install DOS is a boot disk with FDISK & FORMAT,Īnd some way to get the various utilities you use onto the system. On the installed, you might be able to install from directories on a CD.īut. Want you to change disks is that you can't physically do that. the trick with using distribution diskettes which You can burn a bootable CD which will emulate a floppy boot, and youĬan install DOS from that. I haven't done that since about the first time I installed DOS. I take it you are trying to install DOS from a set of distribution disks?. >if a CD install for DOS is even possible. >to get 5 installation disks on one CD to be recognized during an install or >drive? I can burn CDs if necessary but I can't figure out if it's possible >Is there any way to install DOS on a modern PC or laptop with no floppy
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