Thanks for the info. Sounds like what I need and I would guess that it should work with Win95 OSR 2.1 dos as well as Win 98.
I'm building an almost non-survpc and didn't want to use FAT 16 on a 30 GB HDD, but still want to boot to dos from a floppy. On 22 Nov 01, at 15:14, Or Botton wrote: > Mike Miller wrote: > > > > Is there any flavor of dos that is compatible with the fat 32 file > > system? > > The DOS that comes with Windows 98 is FAT32 compatible. > > Instructions for "extracting" it: > 1)Run a "DOS Window" in Windows 98. > 2)Put a blank, formatted diskette in drive A. > 3)SYS the diskette: C:\WINDOWS\Desktop\>sys a: > 4)Copy the utilities from \WINDOWS\COMMAND. These are the DOS tools. > If you cant copy them all, make sure you'll have etleast the > following files: > CHOICE.COM > DELTREE.EXE > DOSKEY.EXE > EDIT.EXE > EDIT.HLP > FDISK.EXE > FORMAT.COM > MEM.EXE > MODE.COM > MORE.COM > MOVE.EXE > SYS.COM > XCOPY.EXE > The MOST important file right now is SYS.COM! Make sure you have it. > The rest are just basic and necessary DOS utilities. > 5)Go to the computer on which you want to install the files. > If you do not have another operation system allready on it, boot from > the diskette and SYS drive C: > A:\>sys c: > This will copy the system files to drive C and make MS-DOS 7.2 > the primary OS of that system. > > Copy everything on the diskette to C:\DOS , and you're finished! > HOWEVER!! > If you allready have an operation system on that computer.. > you can just boot from the diskette, and use it as a bootdisk. > > This DOS will support FAT32 no matter where it is booted from. > > Enjoy. :) > > To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. > Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. > More info can be found at; > http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html > To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
