Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-picayune.mit.edu!athena.mit.edu!yev_g From: yev_g@athena.mit.edu (Yevgeny Gurevich) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc Subject: Re: MSDOS 5.0 installation help Message-ID: <1991Jun17.172326.15828@athena.mit.edu> Date: 17 Jun 91 17:23:26 GMT References: Sender: news@athena.mit.edu (News system) Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lines: 27 In article gasior@khazad-dum.rutgers.edu (Eric Gasior) writes: >I've got an 80286 machine with an RLL hard drive partitioned using Disk >Manager. Drive C: is about .25 Meg (yes, as in 250K). Furthermore, the >dmdrvr.bin that came with DM won't work with DOS 5. I'm using DM because D: is larger than 32 meg I believe that the DOS 5.0 manual states that the primary DOS Boot partition must be at least 2 megs in size. >Should I install DOS to floppy, eliminate my hard drive partition, >repartition with DOS 3.3's Fdisk (or forget about partitions despite the >drive's size), reformat with 3.3 (I really wish the full MSDOS 5 was in >the store), then install DOS 5? > >Eric I think that your best bet would be to backup your data. Partition your drive to create a reasonably-sized C: drive (10-15 megs, perhaps) and install a bare-bones DOS onto drive C: Even SYS C: will work. Installing DOS 5.0 on top of that should work without a hitch. [===============================================================] [ Yevgeny Gurevich ___/~\____/~\_/~~~~\_/~\______/~\_ ] [ MIT EECS Educational |____/~\__/~\__/~\_____/~\____/~\__| ] [ Computing Facility |_____/~\/~\___/~~~\____/~\__/~\___| ] [ ________________________|______/~~\____/~\_______/~\/~\____| ] [ yev_g@athena.mit.edu |______/~~\____/~~~~\_____/~~\_____| ] [===============================================================]