I need to make a bootable MS-DOS 6.22 hard drive.

[UpGrD]

I have dos 6.22 on floppy, and I think succesfuly installed it on a HD (the install went fine). But it will not boot to the HD.
I have tried to "sys c" ,from both a DOS Floppy and the newly created c:\MSDOS directory, but it tell me "wrong dos version". Can 6.22 be istalled on a stand alone HD or was it only intended to prep a HD for Windows? I was never a DOS guru, so a little help please............

Thanks............

 

[DaveSimmons]

Did you format the drive as FAT16? only a Win98SE DOS disk can format and sys to FAT32.

With a bootbale DOS 6 diskette the typical actions would be

1. to create primary DOS partition (max 2 GB if I recall correctly)
FDISK

2. to format C: and install COMMAND.COM properly to make it bootable
FORMAT C: /S

(Though 2. can be split into FORMAT and SYS like you're trying to do)

Finally, I'm pretty sure DOS will only be bootable if it's in the FIRST partition of your hard drive if the drive size is over 30 GB.