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From: p2t80b@suns01.Nowhere (Wolfgang Grimm)
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Subject: Re: question about dos
Keywords: Help please!
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Date: 28 Nov 90 09:24:17 GMT
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In article <1990Nov26.172206.244@eng.umd.edu> yun@eng.umd.edu (Dragon Taunter) writes:
>I have been handed down an old AT with 512K ram.  It has a full hard
>disk which I do not want to overwrite.  How do I upgrade to a newer dos?
>I suspect that there is more to it than copying over everything in /DOS
>

I don't know what OS you're running on that AT. But if you're installing
DOS 4.01, DR DOS 5.0 or some other new DOS they will overwrite the old
system files. But to be on safe side I'll suggest you make a backup of
the hard disk. (You should do it already on a regular basis)


      Wolfgang.
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