DOS question

P166, had W95, then formatted with a W95 boot disk. Loaded several DOS
programs, normal folder situation.

On bootup, I kept seeing a W95 logo, starting W95, then it booted to a C
prompt. There was a small partition, non-DOS. Did Fdisk and removed the
non-DOS partition. Ran Fdisk again, now only C, no partitions. empty.

Reformatted using the W95 boot disk.

Since I will be working with old DOS games intended for DOS 6, tried to
reformat with a DOS 6.22 boot disk, message "wrong DOS version".

Tried to install Dos 6.22, it's method is leave the boot disk in and
reboot, install will start.

Did that, "missing system disk, insert..." with the DOS 6 boot disk.

Rebooted to (W95) C prompt.

Copied the 3 DOS install disks to a new DOS directory in C.

Rebooted, DIR at C shows the DOS directory

C CD\DOS, "invalid directory" tried several change directory commands,
none work.

Problem: The normal change directory function does not seem to work.

Advice

ms

"ms" wrote in message ...

Rebooted to (W95) C prompt.

Copied the 3 DOS install disks to a new DOS directory in C.

Rebooted, DIR at C shows the DOS directory

C CD\DOS, "invalid directory" tried several change directory commands,
none work.

Are you actually typing C CD\DOS? If yes don't, leave the C out.


Problem: The normal change directory function does not seem to work.

Advice

ms



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Sorry, should be:

Leave the C out and type:

cd dos

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"ms" wrote in message
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P166, had W95, then formatted with a W95 boot disk. Loaded several DOS
programs, normal folder situation.

On bootup, I kept seeing a W95 logo, starting W95, then it booted to a C
prompt. There was a small partition, non-DOS. Did Fdisk and removed the
non-DOS partition. Ran Fdisk again, now only C, no partitions. empty.

Reformatted using the W95 boot disk.

Since I will be working with old DOS games intended for DOS 6, tried to
reformat with a DOS 6.22 boot disk, message "wrong DOS version".

Tried to install Dos 6.22, it's method is leave the boot disk in and
reboot, install will start.

Did that, "missing system disk, insert..." with the DOS 6 boot disk.

Rebooted to (W95) C prompt.

Copied the 3 DOS install disks to a new DOS directory in C.

Rebooted, DIR at C shows the DOS directory

C CD\DOS, "invalid directory" tried several change directory commands,
none work.

Problem: The normal change directory function does not seem to work.




The win95 logo is normal and once to boot to the C: prompt...
you will be booted to dos7 and it should work just fine.
(you can get rid of the logo by editing a line in msdos.sys
for no logo, there should be one line that reads

logo=0

anyway if you wan to start all over and install an older version of dos...
if the drive is fat16 you CAN format the drive using a dos boot disk
but you MUST format it from the A: drive
and the boot floppy must of course have "format" on it

"Brian A." gonefish'n@afarawaylake wrote in news:#eRquqDQIHA.5980
@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl:

Sorry, should be:

Leave the C out and type:

cd dos


Thanks, Brian

cd DOS

"invalid directory"

I took pains to use caps for the directory as it was named in caps.

It boots up with the W95 logo and message starting W95 again as before the
Fdisk work, as if I didn't change anything, so still a puzzle.

ms

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"ms" wrote in message
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P166, had W95, then formatted with a W95 boot disk. Loaded several
DOS programs, normal folder situation.

On bootup, I kept seeing a W95 logo, starting W95, then it booted to
a C prompt. There was a small partition, non-DOS. Did Fdisk and
removed the non-DOS partition. Ran Fdisk again, now only C, no
partitions. empty.

Reformatted using the W95 boot disk.

Since I will be working with old DOS games intended for DOS 6, tried
to reformat with a DOS 6.22 boot disk, message "wrong DOS version".

Tried to install Dos 6.22, it's method is leave the boot disk in and
reboot, install will start.

Did that, "missing system disk, insert..." with the DOS 6 boot disk.

Rebooted to (W95) C prompt.

Copied the 3 DOS install disks to a new DOS directory in C.

Rebooted, DIR at C shows the DOS directory

C CD\DOS, "invalid directory" tried several change directory
commands, none work.

Problem: The normal change directory function does not seem to work.




The win95 logo is normal and once to boot to the C: prompt...
you will be booted to dos7 and it should work just fine.
(you can get rid of the logo by editing a line in msdos.sys
for no logo, there should be one line that reads

logo=0

anyway if you wan to start all over and install an older version of
dos... if the drive is fat16 you CAN format the drive using a dos boot
disk but you MUST format it from the A: drive
and the boot floppy must of course have "format" on it


Thanks.

I had thought that DOS 7 started with W98, but anyway, I want a
"original" DOS machine. So your way is what I wanted to try.

I tried exactly that, a DOS 6.22 disk with Format on it, ran format c:
/s, "incorrect DOS version"

??

ms

When I wanted to install MS Dos 6.22 on a machine that had W95 B
which was in Fat 32 this worked for me.

Format the drive with the W95 disk. Decline the over 500 MB option and
it will format it in FAT 16.

Then put Disk 1 of the 3 MS Dos 6.22 disks in the A Drive and turn
machine off.
Then turn on.


It will install your Dos and re-format in Fat 16. If the drive is over 2
gigs, partition so you can use all the space. Fat 16 dos only sees 2
gigs.

As I said, worked for me. I hope for you also.

Regards...

"ms" wrote in message
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P166, had W95, then formatted with a W95 boot disk. Loaded several DOS
programs, normal folder situation.

On bootup, I kept seeing a W95 logo, starting W95, then it booted to a C
prompt. There was a small partition, non-DOS. Did Fdisk and removed the
non-DOS partition. Ran Fdisk again, now only C, no partitions. empty.

Reformatted using the W95 boot disk.

Since I will be working with old DOS games intended for DOS 6, tried to
reformat with a DOS 6.22 boot disk, message "wrong DOS version".

Tried to install Dos 6.22, it's method is leave the boot disk in and
reboot, install will start.

Did that, "missing system disk, insert..." with the DOS 6 boot disk.

Rebooted to (W95) C prompt.

Copied the 3 DOS install disks to a new DOS directory in C.

Rebooted, DIR at C shows the DOS directory

C CD\DOS, "invalid directory" tried several change directory commands,
none work.

Problem: The normal change directory function does not seem to work.

Advice

ms


If I read correctly at the end of a prior thread, your intent is to run
MS-DOS 6.22. Create an environment suitable for "dos" games. Run dos
games. What you've done in per this post is leaving me scratching my head.

You need to install MS-DOS 6.22 from its own 3 diskette installation media
to a bootable active primary FAT formatted partition. Do nothing else.

Afterwards, you need to implement either (depending on the game) extended
memory or expanded memory environment at minimum using himem.sys and
emm.exe.

You may, if needed for undefined game parameters and undefined hardware,
write a line to implement the mouse, write a line or more to implement the
sound card, for such an ms-dos environment. Will be in the autoexec.bat.

You may, if needed, reserve upper memory for implementation of your mouse
driver and other drivers in that portion of memory if using extended memory.

You may, if needed, instruct to load dos in upper memory to allow more usage
of base memory.

Unless properly implemented in an extended memory environment, upper memory
is not used. Base memory is the first 640K. Extended memory begins at 1MB
and ends at 4MB for MS-DOS 6.22.
Dave

Thanks.

I had thought that DOS 7 started with W98, but anyway, I want a
"original" DOS machine. So your way is what I wanted to try.

I tried exactly that, a DOS 6.22 disk with Format on it, ran format c:
/s, "incorrect DOS version"

??

ms


If you are running "format" from the boot floppy and get the "incorrect
version" method...
thatg means that the format command on the floppy is NOT from the same
version of dos that the boot floppy was made from.

I'd get a new dos floppy made up and try again


get one here
www.bootdisk.com

"ms" wrote in message
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cd dos
. . .
cd DOS

"invalid directory"

1. From this prompt, do
DIR D*.*
This will generate a directory of all files and
folders beginning with D
but only in the folder where you are currently
logged. To be sure you are in the root directory
do a couple of times
CD..
that is C D dot dot (with no spaces)
which is the command to Change Directory up
one level e.g.
C:\Windows CD..
C:\ DIR D*.*
Directory of C:\
DOS DIR with details
DEL BAT with details

DOS is "unforgiving" in that every keystroke
must be correct.

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Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)