Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!lll-winken!ames!dftsrv!oneel From: oneel@heawk1.gsfc.nasa.gov ( Bruce Oneel ) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc Subject: Re: HELP! MS DOS 5.0 Message-ID: Date: 12 Jun 91 13:47:16 GMT References: <9106121222.AA00667@cwns10.INS.CWRU.Edu> Sender: news@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov Organization: STX/GSFC Nasa Lines: 38 In-reply-to: ak698@cleveland.Freenet.Edu's message of 12 Jun 91 12:22:45 GMT In article <9106121222.AA00667@cwns10.INS.CWRU.Edu> ak698@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Timothy Stark) writes: I tried mailing this, but it bounced. So, sorry for wastednetbandwidth Hello Everyone: Help! I have another problem with MSDOS product. I heard that Microsoft sales release new version of MSDOS 5.0. Someone told me that it will be retail product but I found out that MSDOS 5.0 still is not retail product and upgrade-only version (required DOS 2.11 or later). I unable to find *FULL* version of MSDOS 5.0. [details ommitted] -- Timothy Stark Internet: ak698@cleveland.freenet.edu 5 West Glebe Rd, Apt B8 Work: (202) 377-9606 TDD/TTY only Prodigy:XRFR50A Alexandria, Va. 22305 Home: (703) 684-6031 TDD/TTY only BIX: tstark "Gallaudet University is the world's only university for the deaf." ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Hey, your local! Well, if you want to buy everything, buy a version of 3.3, 4.01, or what ever (> 2.11) and install that, than do the upgrade. Or, talk someone into letting you borrow and old version, install it, and upgrade. Most everyone has old copies around they'd be willing to let you borrrow long enough to get running. Really all you have to do to install it is to FDISK the hard disk, FORMAT the hard disk (or what ever, I don't know 'bout your hardware), SYS the hard disk, make sure it is bootable, boot off of the hard disk, then run the MS-DOS upgrade. You don't really have to copy everything on the old version to the hard disk. All of these you'd have to do anyway if it is a virgin system so you're not wasting any time. bruce -- Bruce O'Neel oneel@heasfs.gsfc.nasa.gov NASA/GSFC/STX/Code 664