Windows 3.11 for Workgroups made history, and even the newest Win 10 is DOS based and command lines can
I hope that this will help you, download 6.2.1 and 6.2.2 and install them in order. Microsoft has always been a bully and it will get worse. To be a barrier and force entire upgrades and make users/companies choose. certain security features of Access don't function correctly when you load a VM of Win XP on Win 7), the. I don't like to post links to other sites, but I will even if u never see this,Īlso, several colleagues and I have noticed that running VM's in Win XP and Win 7 don't support all OS properly, (i.e. I'll stay to the point, I has recently loaded DOS 5, 6, and 6.21, then 6.22 on Parallels to train someone. I thin for a final release they had an install pack of 6 floppy's for 6.22, but it was long ago.īack then storage space was a major issue, not like today.
6.22 only came in upgrade form, it was a secondary release to patch problems with encrypting/compressing HDDs, if memory serves. You are correct there are lots of reasons someone might need an old OS to do testing and run programs and batch files, not to mention dataįiles in DOS. I don't normally get into these discussions, however I have been programming for 32 years and remember DOS 6.22.
Installer will think DOS is already on the PC and select to continue with install copy a:/ c:/DOS Reboot with first disk in drive and continue with DOS install. Install DOS Put first disk in and boot up Get to DOS install press F3 to exit DOS install At cmd prompt run FDISK Reboot Format hd, format c: /s Get to c:/ prompt create folder named DOS, mdir DOS Get to a:/ prompt copy first disk to DOS folder. Here is what I did if anyone else comes across this in the future:Ĭreate DOS 6.22 install disks Downloaded DOS 6.22 Connect floppy drive to VM In xp vm create DOS 6.22 disks, make14.bat a: Then I read your post Richard which got me through to complete the install. Why would that put the DOS 6.22 upgrade out there without the original DOS 6.22?!?!? I was having the same issue that mikerowaved was having. I am really late on this but I found this post helpful with my DOS 6.22 install from technet. Now reboot again and this is enough for the upgrade to think it's upgrading, then the install works OK. Then copy the contents of the first disk to C:\DOS To get around the issues of only having the upgrade disks from technet do the following:īoot from the first disk and keep pressing F8, select no to everything and get a DOS prompt. (grumble grumble) Thanks again gentlemen. I guess I will have to find out for myself how well it works (or not), once I dig up some DOS boot disks. I'm currently running several flavors of *nix under Hyper-V that are not officially supported some with greater success than others. I understand that "supported" and actually working (or even working with limited functionality) are different things. But like I said, this is probably the wrong forum to raise that complaint. I am completely devoid of a reason they put an UPGRADE version in their TechNet download area, and not a standard version. My observation was simply that Microsoft ONLY offers MS DOS 6.22 in an UPGRADE version, which needlessly complicates getting it going on a test machine (virtual or not). Unfortunately, MS-DOS is still required for some applications that just won't die and testing IS a required part of supporting those apps. There's an entire list of OS's there that fall into this category. TechNet obviously offers MS DOS 6.22 for subscribers to use, even though they have long since stopped supporting it.
I realize this is a Hyper-V forum and not MSDN, so my first question might not apply here. (the second command makes sure that io.sys and msdos.Thanks for taking the time to answer my questions.
(the first command re-builds the boot record on the Hard Disk substituting whatever was before with a windows 95/98/ME one) Then issue these bootpart commands (bootpart.exe must be somewhere): Using bootpart, you can boot from a bootable floppy with DOS 6.22, copy (say from another drive, from CD rom or whatever) the three needed files of the 7.1 version: What if you need to "install" DOS 7.1 (the one that comes with Win98) and you haven't got a DOS 7.1 bootable floppy? If you want to "install" DOS, traditionally you had to boot from a DOS diskette and then issue the command sys a: c: This WONDERFUL utility has been developed with the aim of simplifying the process of multibooting, but it can be used for other purposes too. 1) Write the bootrecord for ANY of these systems:Ģ) this bootrecord can be written to either:ģ) If you write the NT/2K/XP/2003 to MBR you can use the BOOT.INI selection to multiboot, providing that you have created the bootsector files for the other systems