Re: DOS 5.0 upgrade ?

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From: Scott K. Hutton
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1991 15:54

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act@softserver.canberra.edu.au (Andrew Turner) writes:
>You cannot install the upgrade to a freshly formatted
>disk unless you have sys'd it with your current version of DOS.

When I ran SETUP, it generated 4 3.5" floppies, the first of which DID
have the system on it.  I was able to boot off of this disk.  The VER
command verified that it was DOS 5.00, and a MEM verified that I did
have a great deal more memory available!


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From: shutton@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Scott K. Hutton)
Subject: Re: DOS 5.0 upgrade ?
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