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In article <Jun.17.12.04.58.1991.532@khazad-dum.rutgers.edu> gasior@khazad-dum.rutgers.edu (Eric Gasior) writes:
>I've got an 80286 machine with an RLL hard drive partitioned using Disk 
>Manager. Drive C: is about .25 Meg (yes, as in 250K). Furthermore, the 
>dmdrvr.bin that came with DM won't work with DOS 5. I'm using DM because D: is larger than 32 meg

I believe that the DOS 5.0 manual states that the primary DOS Boot partition
must be at least 2 megs in size.

>Should I install DOS to floppy, eliminate my hard drive partition, 
>repartition with DOS 3.3's Fdisk (or forget about partitions despite the 
>drive's size), reformat with 3.3 (I really wish the full MSDOS 5 was in 
>the store), then install DOS 5?
>
>Eric

I think that your best bet would be to backup your data.  Partition your
drive to create a reasonably-sized C: drive (10-15 megs, perhaps) and 
install a bare-bones DOS onto drive C:  Even SYS C: will work.
Installing DOS 5.0 on top of that should work without a hitch.

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