MSDOS 6.22

[sjeysbg]

http://images.thetechguide.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\'\' /> Can someone help me about makeing bootable cd with msdos 6.22

Please!!!

[Guest_anewb]

You must create a bootable cd using floppy emulation.
Ive done it and it works.

john

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ok there is a tricky part to this...that i have not figured out...this is the volume label of the diskettes'
now i have read if you put plain text files with no extension named the volume label's themselves...which are
disk      1, disk      2, disk      3    notice the 6 spaces there.. (or 7 cant remember which). Anyways that does NOT work...i didnt get it to work at all.

I found a solution however using a ram drive. But this was only AFTER i had actually installed ms dos 6.22 from the diskette's. I installed with the 3 diskette's, booted to make sure it worked...it did.

then i used  ghost.exe (you can see where this is going)
I created a ghost image to my ram drive...or zhit it might of been a totally different drive..cant remember.  A ram drive should work.  Anyways my hdd i installed dos on was a old 85mb hdd.  I ghosted that hdd image into a .gho compressed file.  Then i copied over the compressed .gho file from the ram back to the same hdd i just ghosted.

I burnt out the .gho on a cd with dao16...then i took the cd put it in another computer...then i decompressed the .gho file and burned it as it was onto a cd.

when it boots it boots with hdd emulation (i assume..it was the option i picked i think).

one last step. To make this work OK at best...you have to, for some strange reason, do SYS.COM d: q: (or whatever your ramdrive and cdrom is. i had to do this atleast.

Another option ...which isnt the same thing...but CAN work from what i read.  Is to just use a dos 6.22 boot diskette....create a ram drive...copy over the contents of disk's...and setup them up manually.  Obviously i never tried this.

In the end...when i wanted a dos machine for something called \"Freesco\"...i wound up just using a win98 bootdisk...coped over all the files from the disk to my 85mb hdd...and did SYS.COM a: c:
After that i just deleted what i didnt want from the install...and put my own .COM's and .EXE's on the same hdd that i found where 16bit.  This works.

Something tacky about the above is that everytime i start the dos machine...it loads the win98 splash screen...however after that i goes straight to C:_   But this works out.

You could try something called \"FreeDOS\" which blows away m$dos

If you want a ms dos 6.22 machine...you have to use atleast a ms dos 6.22 disketted...and win95/98 diskette will NOT work

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Almost forgot...everytime i booted that Dos6.22 image it copied the entire cd contents to my ramdrive Q:...so i ran everything out of a ram drive...never touched a hdd.

[sjeysbg]

U am sorry but i didt,t give you full information about what I try to do
I have 3 dos disk 1.44 image and I extract to directory DOS622 then I try to use win98se disk image to start installation of course i change my autoexe.but and put right directino in. everythibg works fine but after image done i have a message like press ctrl+alt+del to restart you computer and insert flopy disk number1 to start installation. I would like to made changes to some file because I do not want to start installation from floppy i would like to start installation from cd .

So cay someone tell me how to fix this problem.

Thanks!!!!

[sjeysbg]

I just want to say one more thing,
I am trying to make bootable DVD with other OS and everything works fine but i only have a problem with dos. Maybe i did not do exctracted files well, but i would like someone to explain to me how becaus i used winimage to do so or maybe someone can tell me how to start 3 boot floppy image disks from dos

Thanks!!!

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sorry...as far as i could help...it aint happening brew ha

now m$ did put out a dos 6.22 version on cd that would work fine...i have never been
able to track that down though.

the dev on bart's boot loader stopped right before he was going to implement hot swap
of floppy images..which would be exactly what you and i would need for this.

To be honest a Basic dos install is pretty blind to your hardware and etc...
so your better off installing from the 3 disks to a hdd..then ghosting that image...it works
but you have to actually use 3 diskette's.

Remember installing from win98 might not work..it is not dos 6.22... Im not sure if it would
conflict in anyway though.

Extracting the diskettes is fine...but remember you need those volume labels to install it...so
this is a no go. If i was you...i would do what i did and actually install it then ghost it..it is way faster
and can be carried to any ram drive.  To be honest it isnt worth it though...zhit the UBD (ultimage bootdisk)
is all you really need. Even just a plain boot floppy image can be made to create a bootable dos machine..and
unless you need your hdd to boot its no problem.  Actually even if you do need your hdd to boot you can just
SYS.COM A: C: and it will work out fine.

[sobac]

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=\'\' />

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wow no zhit...a compact flash...that is really cool.

i dont have a drive for flash cards but that is the \"ideal\" way...i would choose that way
over all and being ghost and ghost to them...makes it even better.

i wonder what the perfomance is like...im taking it that it might not be as fast as ram as
actually using your system ram...however since many compact flash drives are external
(in fact i have never seen a internal yet) this would be a nice thing.

however does the bios have to be 'ready' to see a compact flash in order to boot to/from
it? im guessing usb/firewire ?

[sobac]

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.