24 Jul
2021
24 Jul
'21
8:30 p.m.
On 7/23/21 18:35, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote:
On 7/23/21 2:11 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
I have an ISO image labeled "OEM Adaptation Kit" that contains v6.22 (I
think? 6.x at any rate). As far as I know the OAKs are the only
Microsoft DOS CDs, and I expect that's your best bet for making a
single-directory install image.
The "wildman" v6.22 CD-ROM boots and installs MS-DOS, iirc with some
options like installing mscdexe, etc. Totally off the MS reservation,
but it was pretty well documented, and all the MS files passed checksum
testing. It ought to be simple enough to add Windows to that.
I have a Dell CD with DOS 6 and Windows 3.1 on it, but I don't think
it's bootable. I also don't remember the directory structure.
Windows 95 on 3.5" 1.44M floppy is 28 disks. I had 98 on 3.5" floppy
but I don't remember disk count or format. Pretty sure I still have my
backup copy of 95, and pretty sure I don't have 98 anymore. They were
both MS releases, not OEM.
And finally, slightly OT, I remember buying an IBM-branded box set of
PC-DOS 6.0 and Windows 3-something *on CD* with a boot floppy.
I was very new with non-OEM hardware and clean installs, so when my
computer freaked out about a "virus is trying to alter the boot
sectors!!!!" *I* freaked out, took it back to the store and chewed them
out for selling malware. I still occasionally kick myself for letting
that go, and chuckle at myself over the tirade I delivered.
Doc
Some further questions BELOW to complete the
distribution media database:
}:-)
1) Which ones were available on 5.25"?? (and
how many disks?)
?????A) "360K"?
?????B) "1.2M"?
?????C) "1.4M"?
?????D) Microsoft non-standard crammed 3.5" HD? (1.7M?)
Ugh ... I don't know and I don't have a good way to differentiate my
disk images.
First CD-ROM install media that I got was Windows
3.00, but it was an
inclusion on a "tools" collection CD-ROM? (not quite a shovel-ware).
Then a Multi-Language 3.00 CD-ROM from Microsoft (for international
market)
I would like to know more about, or better find a copy, of such a CD-ROM.
I do wish that I could do an install of MS-DOS 6.22, CD-ROM driver +
MSCDExec, DOSidle, and Windows 3.x on a CD-ROM for simplifying
installations in virtual machines.
I've not yet figured out how to put all of the install files for MS-DOS
6.22 in one directory, boot and do the install.? My minimal passes at
doing so don't work as well as I want or get stuck wanting to change the
disk based on the disk label. >
3.10 Windows CD-ROM from Microsoft
Interesting.
> When did MS-DOS come on CD-ROM?? Or did it?