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News / Donations Still Needed

« on: June 09, 2003, 08:06:56 PM »

Perhaps hosting a torrent server would conserve bandwidth and get the site community involved in distribution.
Those who download should also help upload.

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Software / Make your own windows PE

« on: May 29, 2003, 06:05:37 PM »

I tried it with Trial Corporate and Trial Server 2003 (good use for those trial CDs) and it worked.

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Software / MSDOS 6.22

« on: May 26, 2003, 05:25:12 PM »

Pigtail LRP CF link
I run Freesco from CF. Check the link above for info on setting up your card.

CF/IDE adapter
I use the other adapter they sell, but the price went up so I'd use this instead.
Fits a floppy bay. A CF card is nice because they are seen by the BIOS as an IDE device.
17 bux isn't bad, and the units are well made.

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Software / MSDOS 6.22

« on: May 26, 2003, 02:02:12 PM »

FreeDOS has .isos you can download that install from CD nicely.
FreeDOS
Otherwise I have to agree on the Ghost method.
A fun thing to do is to install DOS, WFW, and various utilities to an old, small drive and burn a \"hard disk emulation\" CD of that drive. Quite a few progs will still work, and if you like the slow method you can xcopy (or xxcopy) all or part of the setup to a hard disk.

DUX COMPUTER DIGEST

4.  Directly Copy All of the Directories and Files.  In the old days of MS-DOS operating system, Windows 3.x, and Windows for Work Groups 3.x, one used the the DOS xcopy command  and it worked quite well.  The command is:

a:\> xcopy c:\*.* d:\*.* s/h/e/v

The flags copy subdirectories and their contents, hidden and system files, empty directories, and verifies the data.  In this example, the command is issued from a boot floppy.  


CDs have so much room including a .gho file (or many) is cool too.
DOS also runs well from a Compact Flash card (which are also Ghostable)if you want a quiet system.  http://images.thetechguide.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\'\' />