Sam Ewalt wrote: . > Yeah, it's there after all. I was able to download DR-DOS 3.33 and . > 3.41. But they won't boot. And seem to consist of only four . > files. Is that possible? Very tiny.
I have DR-DOS 5, 6 and 7, but I don't know if 5 is the earliest that I have. I do remember that with the first version of DR-DOS that I got, I noticed that all of the disks were write protected except the first. That gave me a clue that installing DR-DOS did something to the first disk. Just to be sure, I copied the disk, write protected it, and tried to use the write protected disk to install DR-DOS. As suspected, it didn't work until I removed the write protection. (I put a big note on the original Disk 1 to not use it, but to copy it and use the copy.) I think that it had something to do with installation on one computer only. (I also found out that if I wanted to use a DR-DOS function on an MS-DOS machine, if I SET an environmental constant, SET OS=DRDOS, I could run the DR-DOS routine, and continue to run it even after clearing the environment.) If the DR-DOS OS that was downloaded from the web was one that was used to install DR-DOS, then that may be the reason that you can't get it to boot. Roger Turk Tucson, Arizona
