Transportability of Zenith DOS 3.3 Plus???

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4 total messages Started by RFM Sat, 18 Aug 1990 19:19

#271

Author: RFM
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 1990 19:19

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I have an IBM PC in my office with a 40-meg hard drive and IBM PC-DOS 3.3.
With PC-DOS, I have to partition my drive 32/8 in C & D, respectively.
I know that if I get DOS 4.0 I can partition all 40 megs as drive c, but
at a cost of $100+ bucks. My question: Can I load my Zenith DOS 3.3 Plus
into a non-Zenith system. 3.3 Plus supports partitions greater than
32 megs....
Thanks in advance, Bob M., PSU-Harrisburg.

Re: Transportability of Zenith DOS 3.3 Plus???

#274

Author: Chad Price
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 1990 16:45

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In <90230.151952RFM@psuvm.psu.edu> RFM@psuvm.psu.edu writes:

>at a cost of $100+ bucks. My question: Can I load my Zenith DOS 3.3 Plus
>into a non-Zenith system. 3.3 Plus supports partitions greater than
>32 megs....
>Thanks in advance, Bob M., PSU-Harrisburg.

In short, yes. At UNL, we have 4 HP Vectras (286's) which HP donated to us
without any operating systems. We are running Zenith 3.3 DOS on them with no
problem when they are not running Minix.

Chad Price
price@fergvax.unl.edu

Re: Transportability of Zenith DOS 3.3 Plus???

#279

Author: Allanon, ,,3152655399
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 1990 00:56

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From article <90230.151952RFM@psuvm.psu.edu>, by RFM@psuvm.psu.edu:
> I have an IBM PC in my office with a 40-meg hard drive and IBM PC-DOS 3.3.
> With PC-DOS, I have to partition my drive 32/8 in C & D, respectively.
> I know that if I get DOS 4.0 I can partition all 40 megs as drive c, but
> at a cost of $100+ bucks. My question: Can I load my Zenith DOS 3.3 Plus
> into a non-Zenith system. 3.3 Plus supports partitions greater than
> 32 megs....
> Thanks in advance, Bob M., PSU-Harrisburg.

Bob,
I Can't tell you if it would work, but keep the following in mind if you try.

1) Is it in violation of Zenith's license agreement?
2) 3.3+ is not completely compatible with everything.
	Norton 4.5 AE won't run on my Z-248 with 3.3+, but it ran
	ok with 3.21 :-(
3) Wait and see what DOS 5.0 has. :-)

-Walden

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Switching from DOS 3.21 to 3.3 plus: Help!

#282

Author: John Meixner
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 1990 02:42

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I have a Z-248/12 with a 40MB drive running Zenith DOS 3.21, and a more recent
Supersport 286 Laptop (20MB) running Zenith DOS 3.3+.  Now that my 40MB drive
is approaching capacity (32MB--I have only a single partition), I want to
run DOS 3.3+ on it to make use of all 40MB.  Can anyone tell me just how to
set the whole thing up?  Will I have to backup all my directories and reformat
the 40MB drive?  And will DOS 3.3 AUTOMATICALLY take advantage of all 40MB, or
do I have to fiddle around with my DOS manual for hours?  I'm hoping for an
easy solution from one of you netters with more experience.  Thanks.

John Meixner
3IU6YVN@CMUVM.BITNET
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