On Thu, 10 Sep 2015, Eric Auer wrote: > > Hi! > >> How many of you remember the DOS 6.22 install process? If possible, it >> should aim for that. It's simple and straight to the point. It worked > > As far as I remember, it was 3 floppies and only "base" software... > Also, under which conditions would it format / partition your disk?
If it needed to partition, it would offer to partition and reboot. Then if it needed to format, it would offer to. > As mentioned earlier, computers older than 386 cannot normally boot > from anything large and portable (CD, DVD, USB stick) so you would > only install a basic DOS on them, maybe simply by hand: Take some > floppy with pre-installed FreeDOS, FORMAT, XCOPY and SYS, done :-) Even a lot of 486s can't do El Torito. My 486/133 couldn't. -uso. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor Your Dynamic Infrastructure at Any Scale With Datadog! Get real-time metrics from all of your servers, apps and tools in one place. SourceForge users - Click here to start your Free Trial of Datadog now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=241902991&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
