dos upgrade

[Darkque]

Originally Posted by Noval

Hi!

Is very simple, you must have the three disks with installation of DOS 6.22, then use the SETUP command inside the Disk1. If you only have a system disk with 6.22, use the command SYS C: to transfer the system to hard disk.

MS-DOS 6.22 works in any plataform, (except an PC-XT), so you can install it on a 386. It runs better, have better support and enhanced enviroment. You should try to install Win3.11 on the 386 PC, both systems -DOS & Win3.11- occupies only 20-30 Mb.

Greetings,

Noval

Incorrect! you can put dos 6.22on your puter.
just take out XP! which is junk anyway.

[Darkque]

Originally Posted by Felix

I've just thought of something. Is your old 386 a Compaq? If it is then you might have trouble because those old Compaqs weren't true PCs and they even had their own version of DOS. I once had to replace a floppy drive in a Deskpro and found it would only work as a 720k drive, even though I knew it was a 1.44M. The only thing that would read 1.44M disks was a drive from another Compaq.

Meanwhile, here's another way out:

1) Install DOS 6.22 on another PC and boot it.

2) Format about 10 disks in your own 720k drive

3) Use the SYS command on the other PC to make one bootable

4) Copy all the DOS files onto the disks

5) Boot your own PC from the 720k DOS floppy

6) Use SYS to put DOS 6.22 onto your hard disk

7) Copy all the other files off the floppies

It's no use copying files off the DOS 6.22 floppies onto 720k disks because most of them are compressed and you have to run the Setup program to get at them.

Incorrect again! I have a compaq 386 and the setup disks work just fine on it. Yes, compaq has it's own restore disk....BUt you can install 6.22 on it also if you wish too!

Just reboot with setup disk1 in drive and go from there.

[Constance]

Originally Posted by Darkque

Incorrect! you can put dos 6.22on your puter.
just take out XP! which is junk anyway.

What the hell are you talking about ?
Noone has mentionned Windows XP until you did ~~
If you don't know what a PC-XT machine is, there is no use to reply something irrelevent.
And in addition, there is no use to up a thread after 2 years.

[Jerry K]

Well stated Constance.....

If he doesn't know what a PC-XT is, (and it sure as hell won't run Windows XP) he's a 13 year old or was born a long time after 1982.

[keerok]

I just installed 6.22 on an XT. Don't upgrade. Erase everything then do a fresh install.