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From: yev_g@athena.mit.edu (Yevgeny Gurevich)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: MS DOS 5.0 Install procedure
Message-ID: <1991Jun13.132007.21277@athena.mit.edu>
Date: 13 Jun 91 13:20:07 GMT
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In article <1991Jun13.062855.16838@beach.csulb.edu> sichermn@beach.csulb.edu (Jeff Sicherman) writes:
>
>  What does the setup procedure (install) for msdos 5.0 do precisely
>that makes it different from the old way of format, sys, and copying
>the dos files. Does it write to the install disk also ?

Unlike previous install disks, none of the disks that come with DOS 5.0 are
bootable.  This makes it easy for MSoft to demand that DOS be already
installed - if you didn't have DOS already, you wouldn't be able to use the
disks.  The disks are write-protected and the install program uncompresses
the DOS files onto your disk using the expand.exe program first encountered
in Windows 3.0.

You will need to have at least one disk for the uninstall data that DOS 5.0
requires that you make (I used a 1.2 meg 5.25").  IMPORTANT - this disk 
(uninstall) MUST be in A:  The install program will NOT let you change source 
drives as installs in Win 3 did, for instance.  What is interesting is that
my install disks wwere in B: since I bought 3.5" media and can't switch
my A and B drives (CMOS setup doesn't affect them for some reason and my
only recourse is ASSIGN).  DOS installed fine from B even though the booklet
suggested that everything must be in A.  Go figure.

I experimented some more with Himem + EMM386.EXE combination and determined
that the DOS 5.0 + QEMM is much better for memory management.  I get the max
ram and still have the full use of Extended AND Expanded memory.  I save
about 11K using QEMM.

						Still DOSSING away,
							Yev
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