From: johnson@spectra.com (boyd johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps,comp.misc
Subject: Re: DR-DOS Installation HORRORS!  HELP....
Keywords: dr-dos, hell, ...
Date: 11 Apr 92 07:21:06 GMT
Organization: Spectragraphics Corporation

I won't comment on what Jim Knepley already gave you advice on unless I
have additional hints.

In article <1992Apr10.204208.2193@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> scls_ss@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Eric Scoles) writes:
>By various means, I managed to get the diskettes copied onto 3.5" floppies
>in a bootable form.  HOWEVER, every time I tried to run the Install routine,
>it would get to a certain point and go into a loop that seemed to indicate
>that it didn;t recognize the disk it was running off of.

See below SETUP portion for comments.

>That was only the first of several awful behaviors, but I persisted.  I
>installed everything _manually_, and started trying to get everything
>configured in a useable fashion.  And lo!  DR-DOS would not load High!

Without SETUP it would be difficult to get everything configured
correctly and in the proper order.

>I was sure that I must be doing something (undocumented but) wrong.  So I
>decided to "use the Setup utility", as the manual repeatedly recommends.
>THE SETUP UTILITY DOES NOT EXIST.  IT IS NOT ON THE DISKS.  THE SETUP
>UTILITY DOES NOT EXIST.  IT IS NOT ON THE DISKS.  [Probably the Install
>utility -- which is unable to finish an installation -- creates Setup from
>itself when it's done.  Fat lot of help that is.]

I think there is a very good chance you did not copy everything from the
5 1/4" to 3 1/2" installation diskettes.
You could not use diskcopy between different formats, so I assume you
either used COPY or XCOPY.
There are sub-directories on the diskettes.  I suspect you did not get
the sub-directories, but just copied the root directories of the
floppies.
SETUP.EXE is in the a:\util directory.
You should do the copy with the command:
XCOPY/S B:*.* A:
if B: is the 5 1/4" and A: is the 3 1/2" floppy.
This will copy all files in all sub-directories.
This command will work with both DR-DOS and MS-DOS version 4 & up at
least.

>So now I'm sitting here with 550K of low memory, which was what I had in th
>worst of my DOS 4.01 days, and I don't even dare dream of trying to load
>4dos.

As Jim alluded to, you didn't tell us what your configuration is.
If you are running an XT or an AT with Superstore, disk cache, ram disk,
TSR's, etc you would be lucky to get 550K conventional memory.
If you have a 386SX or higher you should do better than that if you
don't have excessive programs loaded.

>Anyway, enough ranting.  If anyone out there has any suggestions about what
>might be keeping the Install utility from working right, I'd love it if you
>could mail me.  I've already tried modifying the INSTALL.INI file to show
>the correct disk type, and it had no effect.  

It looks like you are going about it the hard way.  SETUP should do
almost everything for you.  You may want to touch it up slightly
manually if you know what you are doing with memory.
I hope this helps.  BTW, I'm mailing this also.

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