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need for dos 6.22 help

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iamthesystem

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A friend and I have decided to install DOS for support of older games and demos, etc...

We are already running Win98...is it possible to install DOS on a Win98 machine?

I'd appreciate any thoughts or experience...

-i
 
You can if you have another partition. I am fairly ignorant on how to do this, but I read and article that mentioned hiding one of the primary partitions and booting to it with a floppy.
Probably need to use Part.Magic or something like that to set up your partitions and hide the Dos622 part. or just install it to a logical partition and boot into it with a floppy?

Maybe someone who knows more can take up the topic and help you or go to Google and search this forum on the topic: Partition or Dos


 
You can do this using Partition Magic and Smart Boot Manager.

Partition Magic is commercial software. Smart Boot Manager is GPL Free Software.

You might be able to get the whole thing done using Free Software entirely. Partition Resizer and FIPS come to mind. But I suggest Partition Magic for the GUI, ease of use, and amount of control.

Start up Partition Magic, resize (shrink) your Win 98 partition. DOS has to be installed within the first 4 gigs of the HD, so set your options accordingly. When you shrink your Win 98 partition, you will have some space left on the HD. Create a FAT16 partition there. Finally, format the FAT16 partition.

Partition Magic will queue up all these operations without performing any of them. Once you're done instructing Partition Magic, click the green button, and it will go through the motions and do everything you told it to. It may have to reboot once.

Once you're done with Partition Magic, install Smart Boot Manager. It comes with HTML docs, so you should be able to figure out how it works. Once you install it, and reboot, it will give you a list of all of your partitions, and ask you which one you want to boot from. You choose the FAT16 partition and press enter.

Of course, at this point, there is no OS on your FAT16 partition. So your PC will panic and will say something like COMMAND.COM NOT FOUND PLEASE INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER. This is when you insert MS-DOS 6.22 floppy #1 and I assume you can figure out the rest.

Good luck.
 
What you can do is manually unpack certain files from the diskettes and rename the extentions to .dos and put them in the C:\ directory and a win98 option about booting to a previous dos will appear. If I remember right you need: command.dos, msdos.dos, io.dos, autoexec.dos, config.dos. Rebooting to a previous dos renames the current files and replaces them with the .dos files.
 
The DOS 7 that's in win98 is better than DOS 6.22. No need to install it. Just create DOS 7 boot floppies, each configured for the DOS program you want to run. Also, there's a program called UMBPCI that, if you have a compatible MB chipset, will allow loading TSRs and device drivers high without enabling expanded memory (useful for games like Ultima7, which won't run if EMM386 is loaded). Do a search on Google and you'll find UMBPCI.
 
No. Win98 has its own DOS ......... whatever version that is called.
You can boot into pure DOS by press F8 when booting and chose 'Command line only'
 
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