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#1 tyler kick you fase

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Posted 24 May 2009 - 09:20 AM

i need a dos setup ISO image for my virtual PC or something like that. I've been finding boot diskettes only. Please help... :)

#2 thenotch

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Posted 28 May 2009 - 04:56 AM

Good luck with that... all DOS installs where done back in the day on floppy disks mostly because CD drives were new and that was the de facto standard medium for installation.

If you can find the boot disks you might look at a program like MagicISO or something similar and create your own ISO from the boot disks.

#3 DragonMaster Jay

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Posted 28 May 2009 - 08:26 AM

DOS installs can be tough. Good luck with that.

#4 thenotch

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Posted 28 May 2009 - 08:37 AM

The DOS install itself isn't difficult... but again, you are most likely not going to find an ISO of a DOS install, even the last MS-DOS install, 6.22, was on 3.5" disks. If you find one it will be one that someone else created an ISO of from disks.

Installing DOS is pretty straight-forward: Partition, Format, Install. Tweaking it can be a challenge, but again, it's DOS.. it doesn't have a lot of overhead.

#5 shard92

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Posted 03 June 2009 - 02:02 PM

You MAY be able to find an iso or maybe able to purchase something like PCdos but probably not any MS version... I believe you it would be PCDOS 2000 that you might have luck with but again no guarantees... dos of any kind is harder and harder to find.... another possibility is the freedos project but I don't know how complete that is.

#6 hawklord

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Posted 03 June 2009 - 05:14 PM

these may or may not help

http://www.optimizin...all/bootcd.html

and

http://www.allbootdi...wnload/iso.html

#7 kwacka

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Posted 12 June 2009 - 03:18 AM

Consider FreeDOS - compatable with MS-DOS.

Download from http://www.freedos.org/freedos/files/
Documentation etc http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/free...title=Main_Page

Hope this helps

#8 MeowNRoar

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Posted 05 December 2012 - 09:06 PM

Well MS-DOS 7.1 installs from a cd, and here is the link


http://www.syschat.c...0.html&act=down

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