Ms-dos 6.22 Setup Disks Images
We suggest you follow this tutorials suggestions for setting up and customizing DOS. However, if you're installing to a virtual machine, writing the disk images to. There's a dos 6.22 iso image at AllBootDisks. Would the installation procedure be the same? Modifying the.iso to add my own files and compilers (using MagicISO or PowerISO), but what about getting (generated) files out of the DOS machine?
Well, what I meant is that it's possible to successfully install the normal non Upgrade version from a CD if you partition and format the drive first, because it will only fail and ask for Setup Disk #1 when setup tries to create a new partition or format the drive.
So if you create a partition, format the drive then run the setup, it will install normally from a CD (with all the files in a single folder).
By the way, if you create the bootable CD from the first installation floppy, setup it will create a partition and format the drive successfully, but since the 'virtual floppy' from the bootable part of the CD has a size limitation, we can't obviously fit all the setup files there.
In other words:
Installing from floppies on an unpartitioned drive -> Setup will create the partition, format the drive and install MS-DOS 6.22.
Installing from a bootable CD on a previously partitioned and formatted drive -> Setup will install MS-DOS 6.22 just fine.
Installing from a bootable CD on an unpartitioned or unformatted drive -> Setup will ask for Setup Disk #1 when trying to create the partition or format the drive, and it's impossible to proceed the installation.
Installing from a bootable CD created with the first installation floppy on an unpartitioned drive -> Setup will create the partition and format the drive successfully, but it's impossible to proceed because the rest of the setup files are missing.
So if you create a partition, format the drive then run the setup, it will install normally from a CD (with all the files in a single folder).
By the way, if you create the bootable CD from the first installation floppy, setup it will create a partition and format the drive successfully, but since the 'virtual floppy' from the bootable part of the CD has a size limitation, we can't obviously fit all the setup files there.
In other words:
Installing from floppies on an unpartitioned drive -> Setup will create the partition, format the drive and install MS-DOS 6.22.
Installing from a bootable CD on a previously partitioned and formatted drive -> Setup will install MS-DOS 6.22 just fine.
Installing from a bootable CD on an unpartitioned or unformatted drive -> Setup will ask for Setup Disk #1 when trying to create the partition or format the drive, and it's impossible to proceed the installation.
Installing from a bootable CD created with the first installation floppy on an unpartitioned drive -> Setup will create the partition and format the drive successfully, but it's impossible to proceed because the rest of the setup files are missing.