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A couple of quick things to verify. First, is the floppy enabled as a startup drive option in bios? Second, just be sure that when you made the install disk that you didn't just copy the files to a floppy, but that you first formatted the first floppy using a DOS machine and made the floppy bootable when you formatted it. It might be a good idea to post your system specs here as well.

Lots and lots of other things, but till you get this posted in the right forum, maybe that will help get you started.

then, meanwhile the BIOS is set to boot from floppy and in fact when boot is searched for but does not load anything and does not give any errors, it remains still.

I tried in several ways, I simply copied the files to the floppy and it doesn't work, I tried to format the floppy from Windows 98 creating an ms-dos disk and it doesn't work, I used maxidisk always enabling the create disk dos option and it doesn't work .

the doubt that comes to me is that when you create the ms-dos disk in addition to the command.com file it inserts other hidden files, but when I go there to copy the files of the disk1 it asks me if I want to overwrite some files, this can be the problem ? do you recommend restarting win98 in ms-dos mode and formatting the floppy via Shell?

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Mandarancino wrote on 2020-03-16, 06:03:

then, meanwhile the BIOS is set to boot from floppy and in fact when boot is searched for but does not load anything and does not give any errors, it remains still.

I tried in several ways, I simply copied the files to the floppy and it doesn't work, I tried to format the floppy from Windows 98 creating an ms-dos disk and it doesn't work, I used maxidisk always enabling the create disk dos option and it doesn't work .

the doubt that comes to me is that when you create the ms-dos disk in addition to the command.com file it inserts other hidden files, but when I go there to copy the files of the disk1 it asks me if I want to overwrite some files, this can be the problem ? do you recommend restarting win98 in ms-dos mode and formatting the floppy via Shell?

The easiest way to get diskettes for installing DOS is creating them from the original image. If you search around, I'm sure you can find the diskette images and the software to write them correctly to the diskettes. This way, you make sure that your disks will be bootable, with the correct files and you will have the same experience of installing DOS 6.22 as it was 26 years ago.