🚀 go-pugleaf

You can install dos if you want to by simply booting with a plain old dos
boot disk and deleting the system files (msdos.sys, io.sys) from your hard
drive. Then you should be able to install dos.

*** note: I haven't tried this, so don't do it unless you save the system
files somewhere before deleting them and you have a working boot disk for
some os.

Gang of Win95 Victims wrote:

> Did any of the HELP(!?) you recieved worked 4 you. If so, then please
> let me know. I got the same problem with Dune2 then you do.
>
> I got a MMX166, 32Megs etc. it's new also.
>
> I had Dune2 before, and it was running on my Notebook, which was just a
> 486DX25 4MB/RAM WIN95. Yes, I hAd WIN95 running, and I know Why this
> worked.
>
> Here's my story:
>
> As you (and I) bought your PC. They just installed WIN95 as the main
> operating system. "Chicago" has it's own DOS, so this is the only one
> it's using.
>
> If you (like I did on my Notebook) install "Chicago" from an earlier
> Version of MS-DOS, WIN95 does not overwrite it, but keeps it as a
> secondary operating system.
>
> After installing 95, you are still able to access to your OLD DOS by
> interrupting the bootup of Win95 - by pressing the 'F8'-Key while it
> says "Booting Windows 95...." (I don't know exactly what it says, I run
> the german version, see?!). Then you get into the Boot-Menu. Whether you
> are running a network or not, it should be the 7th or 8th entry in this
> Bootmenu. <anyway it will be the last entry>. By selecting this you will
> get to your old and NORMAL dos shell. And, how refreshing, the
> AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS are present in the Root Directory and they
> are the only files who control your old dos version. If you change them,
> you change the settings of your old dos, ok!? That's fine isn't it? It
> is no problem getting enough conventional ram set up, with everything on
> it's right place, i.e. the good old "DOS-Directory."
>
> Though this sounds very cool in the beginning, for us poor two guys, and
> I bet many more around the planet - MICROSCHROTT, as we like to call it
> in serveral places around good old germany (same as Microtrash) - does
> not allow, to reinstall an "older" DOS-Version afterwards (everythings
> OLD for Chicago, even the latest DOS, see?).
>
> I'll repeat that for the slower ones, not necessary you, ok?:
>
> ###############################################################
> You are allowed to install "Chicago" from any DOS version, but,
>
> forget about trying to install a dos version from "Chicago", ok?
> ###############################################################
> There must be another way!
>
> Well there is a way, flat-en your HD, and start all over again. Install
> a DOS version and  t h e n  WIN95. But who wants that. I don't. I got my
> PC for about 3 Weeks now, and I already got 1,3 GB of Data on my HD's.
>
> I read some of the reply's you got from your request, but somehow they'd
> not work for me, so I doubt they'd for you.
>
> I tried alot, but nothing brought my more then 529K of RAM. Neither the
> DOS Window nor the DOS-Mode.
>
> I'll post that to some help usenet groups, maybe someone knows advice,
> WHO HAD AND SOLVED THE *SAME* PROBLEM - "DUNE 2 - Fight for ARAKIS"
> Many are just playing the smartass and keep giving advices, they never
> tested to work - they keep posting SUGGESTIONS that mostly don't work
> but in increasing users frustration.
>
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> WE ARE STUPID, WE NEED HELP!!!! NO GUESSING GAMES!
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> (am I right or what?!, grin!) ;)
>
> If there's a semi genius out there, who knows how to set up 604Kb of RAM
> under WIN95 then please mail me:
>
> thor...@metronet.de
>
> and to
>
> ing...@lincoln.ac.nz
>
> A mail containing a working pair of autoexec and config would by just
> fine.
>
> Thanx in advance, take care...
>
> Bye.
>
> "I only surf on days that end on 'y'"