#Dos 7.1 boot disk install
My initial attempts to install PC-DOS 7.1 went as follows:
#Dos 7.1 boot disk how to
And if anyone has figured out how to install 7.1 directly, let me know how you did it.Just be sure not to overwrite any files with the same name. If you have a copy of PC-DOS 2000, you can simply copy files from there. Many of the standard utilities are missing. The PC-DOS 7.1 files in the IBM ServerGuide Scripting Toolkit do not represent a full OS.This issues I encountered prevented me from creating a FAT32 partition.HIMEM:DOS XMS Driver, Version 3.15 - 05/30/94Įxtended Memory Specification (XMS) Version 3.0 Unmount the floppy image, and reboot the VM. We're done! Your C:\ drive should now look like this: Create a DOS directory on C: and copy the 7.1 files into it:.Copy the 7.1 system files to the C: drive.We really only wanted the boot record from PC-DOS 2000, so now we'll replace the system files with 7.1's. In addition to formatting the partition, the above FORMAT command also writes a DOS boot record to the C: partition and transfers the three system files, IBMBIO.COM, IBMDOS.COM and COMMAND.COM You can check: Now format the C: drive, give it a label and transfer the system files:Ħ3,890 allocation units available on disk.When you get to the A:\> prompt, run FDISK and create a primary DOS partition on your hard drive - just press ENTER four times to take all the defaults and reboot the VM.Boot your DOS VM from the installation image you created in Step I.Don't forget the AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS file in sgdeploy/sgtk/DOS/cfgfiles/.Ĭreate a basic DOS VM in VirtualBox. Make a subdirectory on your installation floppy (I called mine PCDOS71) and copy all the PC-DOS 7.1 files from the SGTK into it.Unpack the SGTK package and locate the PC-DOS 7.1 files in sgdeploy/sgtk/DOS/. Download a copy of the IBM ServerGuide Scripting Toolkit, DOS Edition (SGTK).Pare it down to only the following six files: Get yourself a bootable PC-DOS 2000 floppy disk image (you're on your own here, but it shouldn't be too difficult - nudge nudge wink wink).Instead, we're going to do it in a round-about way via PC-DOS 2000. In the end, I had to install PC-DOS 7.0, then replace it with the 7.1 files.Īs a result of a number of issues I encountered I was unable to install PC-DOS 7.1 directly onto a hard drive under VirtualBox 5.18. Installing it under VirtualBox proved tricky for me (I'll detail my experience in a subsequent post). It was not made available commercially, and is not a complete OS. PC-DOS 7.1, not to be confused with PC-DOS 7.0 revision 1 (aka PC-DOS 2000), was a series of updates to PC-DOS 2K, most prominently featuring support for logical block addressing (LBA) and FAT32.