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Re: Cnvrt MS-DOS 5.0 from 3.5 to 5.25 HELP (long help)

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From: John Eichenberger
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1991 02:24
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In article <CG108W3.91Jun20184002@icogsci1.ucsd.edu> cg108w3@ucsd.edu (Steve - Happy Hacker) writes:

>Hot Damn!  Over 20 Follow-Ups and NOT ONE answered Dave's question!
>(I need an intelligent kill file that can detect Legal Drivel and
>avoid it. :)
>
>....
>
>To install it on my machine, I aborted the Setup after booting 5.0 and
>ASSIGN'ed a=b, and carried on by running SETUP.EXE.  Later ....

Actually, I *did* answer this question by stating that one cannot create a
360K formatted installation disk set from 720K masters due to the fact that 
there is a binary file (SETUP.INI) which contains the specifics as to which
files are contained on each diskette in the set.  I did forget to suggest that 
one can create a set of 1.2M installation diskettes.  Describing an 
alternate method for installing MS-DOS 5.0 is pointless.  Nobody asked 
that question.

Note, one does *not* boot Microsoft packaged product MS-DOS 5.0 distribution
diskettes.  They are not bootable.  Thus, to copy them to a 1.2M diskette
simply use the XCOPY command having booted your current version of MS-DOS.
You will then have to manually copy the volume labels to each of your
diskette copies.  By "copy the volume labels" I mean use the LABEL command
to create labels which match what the corresponding originals have.

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From: ike@zds-ux.UUCP (John Eichenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Cnvrt MS-DOS 5.0 from 3.5 to 5.25 HELP (long help)
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Date: 27 Jun 91 02:24:26 GMT
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