MS-DOS, Where art thou?

[shootingsoftware]

Hi.

Does anyone know where to get MS-DOS (latest version). Is it free or do you have to pay for it?

Cheers.

 

[shootingsoftware]

Sorry. Me again. The reason I need MS-DOS is for FDISK for formatting a new harddisk on a computer I will be building.

Is there another way to do this instead of with the DOS-disks?

Thanks

 

[Workin']

MS-DOS is not free.

Make a boot disk from somebodys Win9x computer and copy fdisk onto it from c:\windows\command.

 

[FOBSIDE]

what is the latest version of ms dos out anyway?

 

[Staver]

I think its v6.22

 

[SUOrangeman]

Are floppy images of the three 6.22 diskettes out there? I'd might be interested, for archiving purposes.

-SUO

 

[Praetor]

Yeah, they're out there. Just do a search for "abandonware" on your favorite search engine and find it. I'd link it, but it's still property of Microsoft, and well, I like having my computer.

 

[jhu]

actually, fdisk should be in the c:\windows\command directory so you don't even need to make a boot disk (well, except to boot the other computer of course).

 

[they call mr big]

do you want dos for a old computer witha hard disk smaller than 512mb and using windows 3.11 no higher. if not then just a make a boot disk and use that and dos 6.22 or whatever doesn't support fat32 and windows 95 or higher won't work with it

 

[FOBSIDE]

i was cleaning out storage at work and stumbled upon a few copies of ms dos 6. theyre still shrink-wrapped. i wonder what i can do with these...

 

[SUOrangeman]

FOBSIDE, make some images! (www.winimage.com) or in Linux, use "dd".



-SUO

 

[FOBSIDE]

SUO-

huh? i looked at that site you listed. i dont get it. why do i want to do this?

 

[Workin']

If you use winimage to make image files of the disks then you can post them or e-mail them to people or otherwise distribute them.

 

[pac1085]

FreeDos Thats an open source dos-clone. Anyways, goto your HDD manufactuers site, and they most likely will have a utility for easy formatting.

 

[mixxer]

Stick a floppy in A: and do this at the command prompt:

cd \windows\command
sys a:
copy xxxxxx.xxx a: where xxxxxx.xxx are files you want on the floppy disk. I usually copy these:
format.com, mscdex.exe, fdisk.com, sys.com, edit.com

There's your bootdisk. If you want your cdrom drive to work you have to copy the cdrom dos driver to a: and put this in the config.sys:

device=a:\cdromdrv.sys /d:ide0000

and this in the autoexec.bat:

a:\mscdex.exe /d:ide0000

Hope this helps.

 

[OldSailor]

Hi:

I just used fdisk to format a HDD on a computer here. The fdisk program is on the WIN98 emergency disk/start up disk you can make from any WIN98 computer along with some other of the old MS-DOS stuff.

I think that is all you need.