Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!bronze!silver!ntaib From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Nur Iskandar Taib) Subject: Re: Cnvrt MS-DOS 5.0 from 3.5 to 5.25 HELP Message-ID: <1991Jun25.020553.17607@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> Sender: news@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington References: <1991Jun18.092013.51422@gmuvax.gmu.edu> <1991Jun18.172626.9926@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> Date: Tue, 25 Jun 91 02:05:53 GMT Lines: 41 >>>Could some kind soul post the directories of the 5.25 version of the MS-DOS >>>5.0 upgrade pack so I can make such diskettes from my 3.5's? (Or can someone >> The Dos diskettes and software is Copywritten material. >> What you are trying to do is illegal, isn't it? >You took the words right out of my mouth... > Marek Well, it shouldn't be illegal, if the user has paid for the 3 1/2" copy. If he owns a license, he can install it on one machine, it doesn't really matter how it gets there. Besides, you can make backup copies onto any media, right? Now here is what I would do: install it on a machine with a 3 1/2" drive, make a bootable 5 1/4" diskette (the machine has both size drives), copy the contents of c:\DOS onto more diskettes, then wipe the copy off that machine. Next, boot off the floppy on the machine without a 3 1/2" drive, then sys the hard drive. Then replace the contents of the \DOS subdirectory with the DOS 5 versions. This is probably the hard way. I recall someone else posting an easier way (I think installing it directly onto a 5 1/4" floppy, which produces a bootable diskette). -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Iskandar Taib | The only thing worse than Peach ala Internet: NTAIB@AQUA.UCS.INDIANA.EDU | Frog is Frog ala Peach Bitnet: NTAIB@IUBACS ! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------