I can't install MS-DOS 6.22 on my older laptop using setup floppies?
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I have a Toshiba 1800 laptop. It had XP as it's main OS before I did a complete format of the Hard drive rendering it completely empty. Now I want to install MS-DOS 6.22 because I just want to use it to run older games but every time I try using the setup disks I get an error message saying "Remove disks or other media. Press any key to restart". I don't get it because I used the right files but the computer doesn't see it as bootable. I tried using an MS-DOS 6.22 boot disk (which I copied and extracted to a floppy disk) to boot into MS-DOS 6.22 then insert the setup disks but then when I got into the setup to start it I kept getting messages saying "Insert Setup Disk #1". That really confuses me because the disk I inserted is disk 1. Another website told me that I have to use LABEL.EXE to change the name of the floppy drive to DISK 1 and I tried that and it still doesn't work.
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Answer:
partitioning it is going to be a bear, because - MSDOS or DOS in general can only handle up to 26 drive letters (including 1 for mscdex, and hopefully a cdrom driver which you might be able to use from freedos.org) - partitions can only be 4GB in size. multiply 4GiBx26 and you get 104GiB. you will have to leave the rest of the disk unpartitioned. - fdisk may not like that big of a disk??? you can try it. - ability to boot from a floppy? - are your floppies still good after all these years? if not, I suggest you get freedos. it happens to use the FAT32 filesystem and it can support long filenames. surprise! and I think 1.1 just came out. label changes the name of the volume. try inserting one of the other disks.msdos setup is weird. don't mess with your setup disks.
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Unfortunately, I can't help you much with installing MS-DOS; don't really have experience with that. But there are some very good DOS emulators out there, one of the most popular is DOS-BOX. If you get XP back on the system, I would recommend looking into a good emulator instead. Best of luck!!
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