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The following is a quote from shums on 2003-8-7 17:06:17:
Wengier: Does the full installation version of MS-DOS 7.10 have a hard disk installation version? My computer's floppy drive is broken.

Of course you can. It can be directly expanded to the hard disk for installation.

The following is a quote from shums on 2003-8-7 17:52:17:
Help, wingier. There is Win98 installed on the computer. When installing the full installation version of MS-DOS 710, there is no prompt for dual-boot. After installation, it can only directly enter DOS without the dual-boot option. Each time, I have to type win at the prompt to start 98. How can I set it to dual-boot?

It is impossible for MS-DOS 7.10 and Win98 to achieve dual-boot like MS-DOS 7.10 with WinNT/2K/XP/DOS6 because Win98 is a GUI program under DOS, so you can enter it by typing the WIN command under MS-DOS 7.10.

Doesn't this MS-DOS 7.10 installer prompt the following passage when it detects that Win9x exists in the system:

Setup has found that Windows 9x(95-98SE) might be already
installed on your system. Setup can setup the Win9x path
automatically for you so that you can enter Win9x GUI
easier by typing WIN from MS-DOS 7.10 command line.

That is, after installation, you can directly start Win9x with the WIN command under the DOS command line!

Thank you, moderator. There is another problem. I copied the contents of the two disks into the hard disk respectively and then installed them, but in the installation program, I can only specify the source program path for the first disk. There is no room to choose the path for the content of the second disk, and it has to be in the floppy disk. It's inconvenient. Please, moderator master, work hard again to add the option to choose the path for the second disk in the installation program. Or simply make a hard disk installation version or USB flash drive installation version, completely getting rid of the 1.44M limit, and add more and better application software in it. How convenient that would be.

The following is the speech quoted by shums on 2003-8-7 22:19:36:
Thank you, moderator. There is another problem. I copied the contents of the two disks into the hard disk respectively and then installed it, but in the installation program, I can only specify the source program path for the first disk. There is no room to choose the path for the contents of the second disk. It has to be in the floppy disk. It's inconvenient. Please, moderator master, work hard again to add the option to choose the path for the second disk in the installation program. Or simply make a hard disk installation version or USB flash drive installation version directly! Completely get rid of the limit of 1.44M, add more and better - used application software in it. How convenient that would be.

The second disk doesn't have to be in the floppy disk. The second disk automatically uses the path of the first ZIP. So just put both ZIP files in the same path on the hard disk!

Excuse me,站长 Wengier:
What the first floor mentioned: "You can merge these two 1.44MB IMG floppy disk images to make a 2.88MB boot image for the CD to perform the installation." Can we use the format "COPY A.IMG+B.IMG C.IMG" to merge the two images and then make an ISO for CD installation?
Thank you!

The following is the speech of GENE on 2003-8-8 8:52:42:
Dear站长 Wengier:
1st floor mentioned: "These two 1.44MB IMG floppy disk images can be merged to make a 2.88MB boot image for the CD to perform installation." Can the "COPY A.IMG+B.IMG C.IMG" format be used to merge the two images and then make an ISO for CD installation?
Thanks!

No. IMG images cannot be merged like this. Actually, this installation version can be made into 720KB images, as well as 1.2MB, 1.44MB, 2.88MB, etc. Because the latest installation version has supported the function of automatically searching for those two ZIP files in the \dos71 folder of the CD, so there is no need to put them in the floppy disk image.

Wengier said: It can be directly expanded to the hard disk for installation.

Wengier, I extracted the two directly installed ZIP files into the same empty folder under the same path, ran setup, and installed DOS 7.10 into a 2G-sized empty partition (the operating system is WinXP Pro, which is in the C drive, and I installed DOS in the F drive). I selected Full installation, but after installation, there is only an empty ~dosetmp folder and a ~~W~~MS-DOS batch file.

Please give guidance, thank you!

The following is the statement quoted from Ben Ben Xiong on 2003-8-8 9:48:06:
Winger said: It can be directly expanded to the hard disk for installation.

Winger, I extracted the two directly installed ZIP files into the same empty folder under the same path, ran setup, and installed DOS7.10 into a 2G-sized empty partition. (The operating system is WinXP Pro, in drive C, and I installed DOS in drive F). I selected Full installation, but after installation, there is only an empty ~dosetmp folder and a ~~W~~MS-DOS batch file.

Please give guidance, thank you!

Does drive F have anything?

Roy, the F drive is empty, it's a new partition just divided by PQ.

Does this installer prompt that MS-DOS 7.10 has been successfully installed? Did it prompt any error messages during the installation?

There was no error message. I restarted the machine and tried again, but the problem remained the same.

That is almost certainly a problem with that hard disk partition.. You can use SCANDISK and other tools to check first.. Because the ~~w~~.bat file should not exist after installation under normal circumstances.

How does PQ convert NTFS to FAT32? I want to try to install it to my E: drive after booting with MSDOS710, but the NTFS format is not visible after booting.
Also: Why do people say that in XP you can use COMMAND/C or COMMAND/K and then set the auto memory, full screen, etc. to use UCDOS, but why do I always fail?

Can MS-DOS 7.1 be directly installed on the NTFS formatted C drive?

There is a virus on Installation Disk 1