MS-DOS 6.22 on 360k

[lyonadmiral]

I'm sure there must have been, although rare, a version of DOS 6.22 available on 360k. Does anyone have this flavor or know where such images might hide?

Thanks,
Daniel

 

[Stone]

I migrated 6.22 onto 360k disks from another install.

I have an image of that 360k bootable 6.22 if that's what you're looking for.

 

[GottaLottaStuff]

There was a card in the retail box that you could send in and get 1.2M or 360K disks. I should have a set around here somewhere.

edit: I have the 6.0 upgrade and the 6.2 upgrade on 360K disks, but not the 6.22 step-up. Unless it's in a different box.

 

[lyonadmiral]

There was a card in the retail box that you could send in and get 1.2M or 360K disks. I should have a set around here somewhere.

edit: I have the 6.0 upgrade and the 6.2 upgrade on 360K disks, but not the 6.22 step-up. Unless it's in a different box.

How many floppies and is it possible to get images?

 

[SomeGuy]

There is a 360K 6.21 upgrade set on eBeh:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Microsoft-M...666520?hash=item46406e1398:g:g80AAOxypthRp8Ux

 

[GottaLottaStuff]

12 disks in each set. I'll see if there is anything on them to make an image of. I hope that ebay seller's garage has heat and AC, otherwise those disks aren't going to be worth much.

 

[Stone]

There is a 360K 6.21 upgrade set on eBeh:

6.21 ╪ 6.22.

 

[lyonadmiral]

6.21 ╪ 6.22.

Only missing DoubleSpace because Stac Electronics was going WAAH WAAH.

 

[GottaLottaStuff]

Man, I hated DoubleSpace. They should have called it LittleSpace, it was a lot of trouble for a little extra hard drive space. Almost as irritating as the tape drive companies that rated tapes at twice the actual capacity. Put 10.2 MB onto a 20 MB tape and presto! it's full. Anyway, the disk images are done, but they are not error-free. If they don't work, I have the 1.44MB versions, we can probably transplant files from them until we get a working set. PM me an email address and I'll send them out.

 

[Chuck(G)]

MSDN also distributed the upgrade on CD. I can probably find it if anyone gets desperate.

 

[Chuckster_in_Jax]

WinWorld.com has MSDOS 6.22 on 5.25" disks.

https://winworldpc.com/product/ms-dos/622

Edit: These are 1.2MB disks

 

[GottaLottaStuff]

Anybody know what the "enhanced tools" are?

 

[SomeGuy]

I believe "Enhanced Tools" is how they referred to OEM versions of DOS 6.x. These sometimes may have include extra tools specific to an OEMs hardware.

 

[GottaLottaStuff]

I have a set of 1.44MB DOS 6 disks with enhanced tools but they are from Microsoft, not an OEM. I don't think I have any other full versions, just upgrades.

 

[vwestlife]

 

[fs5500]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/322529678767

MS-DOS 6.22 (360KB) disks are listed.

MS-DOS 6.xx with Enhanced Tools --> This is OEM full version of Microsoft Genuine.

Only retail version of Microsoft MS-DOS is upgrade or step-up version.

 

[Trixter]

I migrated 6.22 onto 360k disks from another install.

Seconded. I've done this for decades. Do a clean install on some system, format a: /s to the media you need, copy fdisk.* and format.* a:, then boot the target and set up the drive. Then, use your favorite copying solution (network, floppies, laplink/fastlynx cable, etc.) to copy over C:\DOS.

 

[Casey]

fill.exe would be a favorite there...

 

[Great Hierophant]

Would disk listings of the twelve disks allow anyone to make a "canonical" 360KB 6.22 set?

 

[fs5500]

@GottaLottaStuff

MS-DOS with Enhanced Tools is just OEM full version from Microsoft Genuine.
(No upgrade version.)