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From: rjs3@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (Robert J. Snyder, III)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: DOS 5.0 upgrade ?
Message-ID: <1991Jun27.211029.25078@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>
Date: 27 Jun 91 21:10:29 GMT
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John Gayman (uunet!wa3wbu!john) asked if it was possible to install the
DOS 5.0 upgrade to a freshly formatted hard disk.  A procedure for doing
this is described in the book on installing DOS 5.0 that Egghead attempts
to "pursuade" you into purchasing when you buy the upgrade from them.  All
that you need is a bootable floppy with some earlier version of DOS and
a hard disk that is at least low-level formatted already.  The key to the
proceedure is that the setup program will install DOS 5.0 onto a floppy
disk if you give it the /f switch.  Actually it takes several floppies, so
have a pile on hand before you start (I think it formats them).  Once you
have a floppy based DOS 5.0, simply boot that and use its copies of FDISK
and FORMAT to arrange things to your liking (particularly useful if you
want to start using large disk partitions).  I don't know how much of this
is covered in the DOS 5.0 upgrade manual as I haven't actually tried to
install DOS 5.0 yet.

	Robert Snyder
	rjs@moss.att.com
	(201) 386-7629