On Fri, 10 Sep 2004, Jules Richardson wrote:
> Unfortunately I'm surrounded by Linux machines right now and nothing
> with a hard disk onto which I can install DOS - and I don't think I can
> boot DOS 6.22 from floppies and tell expand to decompress a file into
> memory, let me change floppies to the one I want the expanded version
> on, and then write it out... :-)
Yes, you can!
You can boot 6.x from floppy, even though the INSTALL
dementedly insists on installing onto C: -
MICROS~1 response to those who wanted 6.00 on a different drive
(my C: was a 3", D: was 3.25", and my harddrive was E:)
was "install it on C: and then COPY it to another disk
by FORMAT x: /S and then copy the files".
Once you have a bootable 6.22 floppy, you have two fairly
straightforward ways to do it.
1) give the command to expand as if you had a floppy in B:
DOS will then expand to the phantom B: drive, by asking you
to put the B: disk into drive A:, then the A: disk in drive A:,
then the B: disk in drive A:, then the A: disk in drive A:,
then the B: disk in drive A:, then the A: disk in drive A:,
etc.
This would be a VERY good time to write protect the disk that
you are not going to write to!
2) setup a RAMDISK. You can boot from a floppy with the
RAMDISK software invoked in CONFIG.SYS Then you can use
RAM as an additional drive, and do your work in it.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin_at_xenosoft.com
Received on Fri Sep 10 2004 - 17:37:15 BST