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July 6th, 2001, 11:19 AM
#1
Registered User
Looking to put only DOS on a machine... need some help
I am making a Jukebox out of one of my spare machines. I came accross a great DOS based MP3 player.
I am just curious to where i could get a copy of DOS.
Any tips or hits would be great.
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July 6th, 2001, 11:50 AM
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Question of the Day: If it Micro$oft didn't exist, how much easier would our lives be?
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July 6th, 2001, 01:04 PM
#3
FreeDOS ahould do everything you will need, and it won't break any liscensing laws to do it.
Just out of curiosity, what are you going to use to play the files with (assuming you are playing them in dos)?
"Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. "
- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
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July 6th, 2001, 01:04 PM
#4
If you are looking for a copy of DOS, the best bet would be to check a flea market, or ebay. If you are looking for a link to download from, you are SOL. We don't do warez here.
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July 6th, 2001, 02:15 PM
#5
Registered User
Not warez, just trying to see if anyone knows the way to pull DOS out of WIN9x ect.
I read somewhere how to do it a while back but forgot.
I wil try FreeDOS and see how well that works.
The program I am using is DAMP, decent DOS mp3 player i found on The Screensavers on TechTV
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July 6th, 2001, 02:55 PM
#6
You are probably thinking of the [relying on memory here] \system\olddos on the Win95 CD. I has (more or less) MS-DOS 6.22 in it.
*probably _not_ the correct path there, but poke around a bit and you should find it.
"Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. "
- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
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July 6th, 2001, 03:13 PM
#7
Intel Mod
There was some DOS discussion here:
http://forums.windrivers.com/cgi-bin...&f=11&t=003180
including a link to a DOS info site.
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July 7th, 2001, 08:36 AM
#8
Student^2 hit the nail right on the head: FreeDOS. It is an ongoing project with constant updates and to be quite honest I think it is alot better than MSDOS (probably because MSDOS hasn't been updated in years). It has really good memory managment.
www.freedos.com
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July 7th, 2001, 10:54 AM
#9
Registered User
Thanks alot,
I found several other very helpful links with tons of freeware/shareware for DOS...
Looks like it is going to be a lowend gaming PC too...
I will be building it today hopefully, and I will post how it all went.
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July 7th, 2001, 02:10 PM
#10
Originally posted by MD_Geist:
<STRONG>Not warez, just trying to see if anyone knows the way to pull DOS out of WIN9x ect.
I read somewhere how to do it a while back but forgot.
I wil try FreeDOS and see how well that works.
The program I am using is DAMP, decent DOS mp3 player i found on The Screensavers on TechTV</STRONG>
Just create a boot floppy with FDISK, Format, and SYS on it to partition, format, and make bootable the "DOS to be" system. Then copy all the files from c:\windows\command for all the DOS support files.
"Badges? We don't need no stinking badges."
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July 7th, 2001, 04:16 PM
#11
Intel Mod
Originally posted by Sowulo:
<STRONG>
Just create a boot floppy with FDISK, Format, and SYS on it to partition, format, and make bootable the "DOS to be" system. Then copy all the files from c:\windows\command for all the DOS support files.</STRONG>
Plus HIMEM.SYS and EMM386.EXE which are usually only in the Windows folder.
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July 8th, 2001, 04:30 AM
#12
Registered User
If you are Using CDROM - I would also include Smartdrive.
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