How to install MS DOS 6.22

Question

Hello everyone

So, I have a problem copying the contents of the 4 folders containing MS-DOS 6.22 onto floppy disks. Is that normal?
I want to install MS-DOS without installing Windows.

Can someone help me?
Thanks

See you later, Mangouste

Mister BeeGee · Accepted Answer

OK !
Let's start by formatting the C: drive
We boot from the 1st DOS disk and at the prompt we type:
A:\>FORMAT C: /S/C/U/V:DISQUE200MO

C: formats the C Drive
/S copies System files to the HDD
/C checks all the Clusters again
/U makes recovery by Undelete impossible
/V:DISQUE200MO gives the volume a name "DISQUE200MO"
PS: The /S option sometimes leads to an error message. If so, remove this option and then type A:\>SYS C: to copy the system files

Then two cases arise:
1) There is an INSTALL.BAT file on the disk and we start the installation by typing:
A:\>INSTALL
2) There is no INSTALL.BAT file:
we create a DOS directory on the hard drive.
A:\>C:
C:\>MD DOS
C:\>CD DOS
C:\DOS>COPY A:*.* /V
and we repeat this command for all the disks.
We will then need to create a CONFIG.SYS and an AUTOEXEC.BAT.

To be continued!

Mister BeeGee · Answer

Give us some details about your setup and what you want to do. What are these 4 disks containing MS-DOS 6.22? MS-DOS 6.22 fits on 4 floppy disks, but only one is truly essential: to download at http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm
On which disk do you want to install MS-DOS? Is there already a version of Windows installed, and which one?

Mister BeeGee · Answer

Download the RIGHT disks at: http://dblomme.free.fr/bondos.htm
The "DOS" of Win98SE is not COMPATIBLE with MS-DOS 6.22 and will only cause the message "Wrong version of MS-DOS" to appear.
I repeat: "ONLY one disk is REALLY necessary!"
Without being intrusive, what do you want to do with MS-DOS 6.22? What is the SIZE of the disk?

Mister BeeGee · Answer

You didn't answer the question: "What is the size of the hard drive?" Can you boot from floppy disk No. 1?

Mister BeeGee · Answer

On the floppy disk, create a CONFIG.SYS file with the following lines:
DEVICE=A:\HIMEM.SYS /V /TESTMEM:OFF
BUFFERS=10,0
DOS=HIGH,UMB
LASTDRIVE=Z
FCBS=4,0
SWITCHES=/F
STACKS=9,256
FILES=40
BREAK=ON
COUNTRY=033,437,A:\COUNTRY.SYS
SHELL=A:\COMMAND.COM A:\ /E:512 /P
DEVICE=A:\EMM386.EXE NOEMS
after verifying the presence of the files HIMEM.SYS, COUNTRY.SYS, EMM386.EXE on the floppy disk.
Create an AUTOEXEC.BAT file with the following lines:
PROMPT $P$G
LH A:\KEYB FR 437 A:\KEYBOARD.SYS
PATH=A:\;C:\;C:\DOS;
ensuring that the KEYBOARD.SYS file exists.
Restart on the floppy disk and the keyboard will be in French.
Letter correspondence: Q=A, W=Z, A=Q, Z=W, ,=m, ?=M, :=m, etc.

Romain · Answer

MSDOS stands for Microsoft Disk Operating System.

homedual · Answer

MS-DOS = Microsoft Disk Operating System

Mister BeeGee · Answer

I took the CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT from a 386 lying around with MS-DOS 6.22 and Win3.11!
Only the lines with HIMEM.SYS, COUNTRY.SYS, COMMAND.COM, EMM386.EXE, KEYB.EXE, and KEYBOARD.SYS are essential.
See you!

auroma · Answer

faire un répertoire dos ensuite copier disquette dans dos copier a:*.* c:dos

borshia nikolic · Answer

Dear Sir,I check every day how things are going.I bought a new Compaq Presario S 500 NX computer.120 GB.Is it possible to install MS-DOS 6.22?I have XP Home Edition.Can you indicate which MS-DOS is suitable for my PC?Thank you.Borshita

khaise · Answer

Hello,

I would like to install MS-DOS on my PC that already has XP PRO. I would like to know which version of DOS to use and how to install it. Please explain in detail since I am a beginner with DOS.

Thank you in advance.

DIALLO · Answer

Good evening,I would like to know how to transfer MS-DOS 6.22 onto a floppy disk. I get the message "size too small" and then it stops. What should I do please?Thank you.

yanks · Answer

Hey, hi, I have a little problem following our discussion, actually I would like to install DOS 6.22 on my laptop which already has XP SP2. I would like to have both systems together and be able to choose which one to access. Is that possible?

Kana · Answer

Lolll,

In 2007 still needing MS-DOS?? Well okay then, there are several methods (it's going to be hard to remember all this 15 years later :-P).

The 1st one is the emulator, and I’d say it’s the most recommended method these days (DOSBox is probably the most widespread and suitable), especially if you want to run a program while having Windows at hand (even if I believe that XP can handle MS-DOS mode in many cases: see CMD in the run menu and you have a sort of DOS even if it’s not really one).

@Khaise: MS-DOS 6.22 (the last version before Windows 95) or PC DOS 7.0 (it's 50/50; neither version really differs in functionality from the other except for the distributor and a few commands, kind of like Linux distributions today ;-) )
Furthermore, note that MS-DOS only handles FAT and that means FAT => maximum partition of 2GB.
To install it, see Mister BeeGee's response for downloading at least the first floppy disk, but all 4 are needed for a complete installation.
See the recommendations made to Yanks (below) for the complete installation.

@Diallo: Transferring a version 6.22 of MS-DOS onto a floppy disk => see Mister BeeGee's post (posts #1 and 7).
For the first one, I haven't tested if the link is still valid, but only floppy disk 1 is useful; all 4 are for a complete installation.
For the 7th, provided you have a pre-installed system under MS-DOS because SYS A:\ creates the system boot (on drive A and hence a floppy disk) and only copies system files from disk C as well as FORMAT A:\ /U /S /F (/U => Unconditional (no recovery of old data) /S => System included, /F => Fast format).
Otherwise, there's ModBoot, but it requires a pre-installed MS-DOS system.
GOOD TO KNOW: If you only have 1 floppy disk drive, you can boot from the first floppy disk to create a second boot floppy disk using drive B. see: "SYS B:", the system will ask you to change disks each time (drive A for the system disk, and drive B for the destination disk, as if you had 2 drives or almost ^^)

Initially, only msdos.sys, io.sys, and command.com are needed on the floppy disk to boot under MS-DOS.
If they are copied on the fly, you need to modify them using the command ATTRIB +h +r +s [file_name] (r = read-only, s = system, h = hide); if I remember correctly, this should allow the system to boot from it but without config.sys or autoexec.bat and even less the useful little tools like the French keyboard (keyb.com + keyboard.sys and country.sys), access to XMS and EMS (himem.sys, emm386.exe) to load certain programs into high memory and allow a Windows 3.11 (for example) to utilize the system beyond the basic 640KB.

@Yanks: I have something better than a multi-boot that would probably work better in your case (and for others too), which is to create a virtual machine. Multi-boot generally involves partitioning and is only useful for memory and disk space-hungry systems, which isn’t the case for MS-DOS (2GB max on HDD and FAT, 4MB of RAM is more than enough). There are different tools available to install a virtual machine type system under Windows that allows you to manage MS-DOS as if you were on it. Among others, the famous VMWare. This allows you to have at your fingertips an operating system different from the one you have (nothing stops you from installing an additional XP by the way ;-) ). I myself have XP Pro and Debian under VMWare, allowing me to do some things under Linux (via VMWare) and others under Windows like gaming (if it’s not to say that ultimately Windows only serves to play and that I do everything else on Linux :-P).

Otherwise, for the multi-boot, you should start with MS-DOS (2GB FAT partition), then Windows XP logically. Windows XP would be installed in the remaining disk space (see: a 20GB HDD => 2GB for MS-DOS in FAT + 18GB for Windows XP (FAT32 or NTFS)). There are other methods for multi-booting but they require modifying the boot.ini of the previously installed Windows to boot from another disk and/or another partition, but this is more complex, and I wouldn’t dare share more to avoid any problem related to accidental data loss and manipulation errors ;-). It seems to me that you could find other topics related to multi-boot and the modification of boot.ini accordingly, but without real system knowledge (hda0, hda1, hdb0,... and also what that means: multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)) it’s best to avoid; you risk no longer being able to boot without a complete reinstallation.

Personal little fun for 2008, autoexec.bat and config.sys dedicated to MS-DOS 6.xx only

Config.sys:

[menu]
menuitem=menu1,Default Config
menuitem=menu2,EMS Config
menudefault=menu1,10

DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS /TESTMEM:OFF

[menu1]
DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE NOEMS

[menu2]
DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE 2048

[COMMON]
DOS=HIGH,UMB
FILESHIGH=10
BUFFERSHIGH=20,0
STACKSHIGH=9,256
FCBSHIGH=4,0
COUNTRY=033,850,C:\DOS\COUNTRY.SYS

Autoexec.bat:
@ECHO OFF
PROMPT $P$G
PATH=C:\DOS
LH KEYB FR,,033,C:\DOS\KEYBOARD.SYS
SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 T3

:menu1
LH SMARTDRIVE 512
GOTO END

:menu2
GOTO END

:END

That’s my little fun with these 2 boot files; of course, it’s a multi-config boot under MS-DOS, with EMS management or not + smartdrive management in the event that there’s no EMS. I could have added a submenu (see: submenu) for network management, CD-ROM to manage or not those functions, but I thought that would be too much for novices.

Looking forward to having helped some to shed light on their lantern ;)

Traxdata · Answer

It is simply enough to install Windows 95 OSR2 on the machine (OSR2 because it supports FAT32) and all the MSDOS commands (including deltree and xcopy) are located in the following directory:

C:\windows\command\

The MSDOS version of Windows 95 is V7.0 (fully compatible with over 98% of programs designed to run under MSDOS).

At startup of Windows 95, press F8 and select the "MS-DOS Command" option from the menu

I have personally modified the autoexec.bat and config.sys and managed to achieve 610KB at startup with the mouse manager, CD-ROM, and everything else (French keyboard, etc.) loaded in high memory (DOSHIGH).

If it's for old programs or games, also find a Sound Blaster ISA sound card.
The best for quality General Midi sound are the SB AWE32 or SB AWE64. (sometimes incompatible with the very first MSDOS games); otherwise, take a simple SB16 or SB16 Pro (100% compatible with SB and ADLIB).
If it is on IRQ7, don't forget to disable the printer port in the motherboard BIOS, which uses that IRQ!!!

There you go, hoping to have helped someone

Best regards
TRAXDATA

Traxdata · Answer

Forget on my part, and for clarification...

The solution given above is only valid for Windows 95 and Windows 95 OSR2.

There seems to be a difference between Windows 95 and Windows 98 and 98SE.
With Windows 98, I get messages like MSDOS version error with old games, while they launch without any problems with the MSDOS of Windows 95.

Yet the MSDOS versions are both indicated as V7.0.
So to me, there is a difference in MSDOS handling; moreover, there are significantly fewer files in the "C:\Windows\Command\" directory of Windows 98 than in that of Windows 95???

Best regards
TRAXDATA

bibah · Answer

Hello, I have Windows Vista and I would like to install MS-DOS as a virtual machine. I would like some help, please. Thank you in advance.

leepache · Answer

Quelle est la différence entre MS-DOS et Windows ?

bailaetlountan · Answer

Salut à toute la communauté, j'ai un problème avec le MS-DOS 6.0. J'ai copié tous les fichiers, mais quand je tape la commande install, ça refuse de s'installer. Quelqu'un peut-il m'aider avec ce problème, s'il vous plaît ? C'est urgent.

djmsdos · Answer

Yes, hello, you need to erase your hard drive and use fdisk to partition and format it.

But MS-DOS 6.22 will do it for you, just follow the on-screen instructions.

If this problem persists, it might be your computer that's faulty.

Or you might not be doing it correctly.

Make sure your hard drive is formatted and insert diskette number 1.

Up to 6 diskettes of MS-DOS 6.22.

dech'nord · Answer

Well, I have a very important question: what are you all doing with MS DOS in 2009???? a 15-year-old operating system!! Are you going back to the Stone Age or what???

domtom91 · Answer

Hello everyone!

Personally, I’m looking for
1 - MS-Dos
2 - To successfully integrate SATA HDD management since my netbook has SATA
3 - To successfully integrate USB management since my netbook doesn’t have a serial port and the cable I ordered is therefore USB.

And all this for what? In 2009, it’s mainly to be able to use communication programs with my car since some programs only work under DOS, even in 2009.

Now perhaps with DOS virtualization, it might be possible (via virtualization software conversion) to use USB ports and SATA HDDs.
Best regards,
DomTOm

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