Sam,
Tell me something.
Since you apparently already have all the answers to your question, and
have called to task anyone and everyone who dared to say "You may be
wrong, Sam," ... and you obviously don't want to hear what anyone else
thinks ...
Why did you bother to come to the list to ask the question in the first
place??
l.d.
P.S. It is considered "installation" when you put the sys & io files in
place in the boot sector.
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Can you tell us why you bothered
On Sat, 23 Dec 2000 17:57:10 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Dec 2000 15:05:55 -0500, L.D. Best wrote:
>> Sam,
>> The theory may be grossly flawed. An attempt to install sys on an
>> already formatted bootable HDD would be expected to result in a "Wrong
>> DOS version" message [or at least I would hope so].
> L.D.,
> You don't "install" SYS on the HDD. When you boot to a floppy and enter
> the command "A:>SYS C:", this will transfer the operating system files
> from A: to C:, provided of course that you have on your floppy a copy of
> SYS.COM from the same DOS version as the system files on the floppy.
> After you have performed the step described above, your HDD will boot to
> the same DOS version as installed on your floppy.
> No, I assure you that you cannot get "wrong version" errors as long as you
> don't try to run any of the DOS utilities that still remain on the hard
> drive from your old version. For example, you can have two distinct DOS
> directories on the same hard drive, one named DOS500 and another named
> DOS330. You can modify AUTOEXEC.BAT as appropriate, so as to set your path
> variable to "PATH=C:\;C:\DOS500" or "PATH=C:\;C:\DOS330". There would be
> no possibility of getting "wrong version" errors as long as you do not
> attempt to run the wrong version DOS utilities. I know. I do this kind of
> thing all the time to see which DOS version works best for me, depending on
> which applications I am running. I just want to know if you can switch the
> operating system files back and forth on the HDD for a WIN 95 installation
> as readily as you can switch around operating system files for various
> "straight-up" DOS versions. The version of DOS that comes with WIN 95
> differs in many respects from the "straight-up" varieties of DOS.
> The WIN 95 DOS version is not "straight-up". It lacks vigor. It is a
> Micro-Softened and flacid one. You can't do anything with it.
> Sam
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