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Re: How can I install DOS without a floppy drive?

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> On Tuesday, 1 February 2011 16:32:07 UTC, Kulin Remailer  wrote:
> > Is there any way to install DOS on a modern PC or laptop with no
> > floppy drive? I can burn CDs if necessary but I can't figure out if
> > it's possible to get 5 installation disks on one CD to be
> > recognized during an install or if a CD install for DOS is even
> > possible. Any suggestions?
> > 
> > If the PC supports PXE boot does anybody know if you can install
> > DOS over PXE or how hard it is to setup a PXE server? What are my
> > options for doing this I guess is my question.

I did it with MS-Dos 6.22 but I don't know if it will work with
the dos you want to use.  With 5 disks maybe PC-Dos 7.  So I do
not know if this will work.  Anyway, here is what I did...

First I created a bootable floppy image that loads my CD-Rom
driver, himem, emm386 and smartdrv.  They all must be loaded
or this will not work at all.  Next, I created a bootable CD
using that floppy image and I copied all the dos files to a
directory on the CD.

Boot with the CD.  Change to the CD-Rom drive.  Change to the
directory where the dos files are located and run setup.  The
installation will be as though it was installed from floppies.

Can't help with the PXE question.

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<Wildman> GNU/Linux user #557453
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How can I install DOS without a floppy drive? Kulin Remailer <remailer@reece.net.au> - 2011-02-01 16:32 +0000
  Re: How can I install DOS without a floppy drive? ken.ledger48@gmail.com - 2014-10-21 07:57 -0700
    Re: How can I install DOS without a floppy drive? "Benjamin David Lunt" <zfysz@fysnet.net> - 2014-10-21 10:35 -0700
    Re: How can I install DOS without a floppy drive? Wildman <best_lay@yahoo.com> - 2014-10-21 14:20 -0500
    Re: How can I install DOS without a floppy drive? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2014-10-21 21:56 +0200
      Re: How can I install DOS without a floppy drive? Wildman <best_lay@yahoo.com> - 2014-10-21 21:24 -0500
        Re: How can I install DOS without a floppy drive? adsources369@gmail.com - 2017-09-09 05:23 -0700
          Re: How can I install DOS without a floppy drive? Trifle Menot <triflemenot@protocol.invalid> - 2017-09-09 13:52 +0000

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