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by stationmaster 1 view

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Why do we all have to fall back on the GUI interface, Shurly we can run a Pentium on DOS 6.5 , without having to resort to Windows or some other O/S.
I had been running 5 versions of DOS starting with 2.3 on an old Amstrad PC.
With each version ina diferent Directory, using the dosshell as an interface, However after about three months the system crashed, due I think to errors in the cofig.sys file and
autoexec.bat, I have been unable to get the system back up, I will try again though I think I will need specialist help with the configuration of the system, any suggestions welcome, has anyone achieved this and had it work.
300 points offered for a working solution..

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by ebob

I don't know completely if this helps, but when I setup a PC I always start with a DOS boot floppy. I make sure it can see the CD-ROM by implementing the *.sys from the CD vendor, and of course MSCDEX. With this simple setup, I could run my AMD900 Thunderbird in DOS, if I chose to do so. Of course, very few of the applications that I want to use actually would run in DOS, but I assume that you have apps that can, or need, DOS.

So given a boot floppy, can you not simply replicate your original config to at least boot in one version of DOS? Then you can go about the interesting work of rebuilding your original config of installing the old command.com files and setting up an O/S picker in the DOS shell. (Phew!)

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