Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!samsung!uunet!zds-ux!ike From: ike@zds-ux.UUCP (John Eichenberger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: Cnvrt MS-DOS 5.0 from 3.5 to 5.25 HELP (long help) Message-ID: <641@zds-ux.UUCP> Date: 27 Jun 91 02:24:26 GMT References: <1991Jun18.092013.51422@gmuvax.gmu.edu> Reply-To: ike@zds-ux.UUCP (John Eichenberger) Organization: Zenith Data Systems Lines: 30 In article cg108w3@ucsd.edu (Steve - Happy Hacker) writes: >Hot Damn! Over 20 Follow-Ups and NOT ONE answered Dave's question! >(I need an intelligent kill file that can detect Legal Drivel and >avoid it. :) > >.... > >To install it on my machine, I aborted the Setup after booting 5.0 and >ASSIGN'ed a=b, and carried on by running SETUP.EXE. Later .... Actually, I *did* answer this question by stating that one cannot create a 360K formatted installation disk set from 720K masters due to the fact that there is a binary file (SETUP.INI) which contains the specifics as to which files are contained on each diskette in the set. I did forget to suggest that one can create a set of 1.2M installation diskettes. Describing an alternate method for installing MS-DOS 5.0 is pointless. Nobody asked that question. Note, one does *not* boot Microsoft packaged product MS-DOS 5.0 distribution diskettes. They are not bootable. Thus, to copy them to a 1.2M diskette simply use the XCOPY command having booted your current version of MS-DOS. You will then have to manually copy the volume labels to each of your diskette copies. By "copy the volume labels" I mean use the LABEL command to create labels which match what the corresponding originals have. ==== __ _ _ __ | | | | | | / | | |-| |- | |/ |- | | | |__ _|_ | \ |__