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In <1992Apr10.205155.2455@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> scls_ss@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Eric Scoles) writes:


>I've already posted to comp.misc, and comp.os.msdos.apps -- forgot about
>this group.  

>Has anybody out there had a problem with the DR-DOS 6.0 installation routine
>being unable to complete the installation?  The circumstances are unusual,
>in as much as the disks I'm installing off of are 3.5" 1.44M disks copied
>from the originals, which were the wrong media for my system (and yes, I did
>order the right size, whatever they say). 

>The problem that occurs (well the major one -- there are others) is that
>when it comes time for the Install routine to copy the files to disk, it
>goes into this endless loop where it fails to recognize its own disk as "the
>startup disk", and keeps prompting you to put it in.  
>
> [...]

Most of the problems in this post have been worked 'round, if not solved. 
SETUP is INSTALL renamed.  The disk labels were wrong.  And HIDOS.SYS
doesn't seem to like the permanent upper RAM on AMI BIOS 286s (or so I
guess), and so biffs DOS into low memory on failure. 

Thanks to everyone who responded.
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