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From: adrian@milton.u.washington.edu (Adrian Mariano)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: HELP! MS DOS 5.0
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Date: 13 Jun 91 03:18:39 GMT
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In-Reply-To: ak698@cleveland.Freenet.Edu's message of 12 Jun 91 12:22:45 GMT

Timothy Stark writes:

>      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. 

Fortunately, this is a small lie on MS's part.  If you know anyone
with DOS, get a bootable floppy from them.  You can boot with that,
and then install; I have installed DOS 5 to an unformatted HD using a
DOS 4.01 floppy.

Jason Merrill
jmerrill@jarthur.claremont.edu