I've got about 8 sets of genuine 6.22 1.44mb install media but I'm coming up blank on 720kb.
I'd like to get it installed on my Tandy 1000TL but it only has a 720kb drive.
I suppose I could install the drive in a system with 1.44mb floppy if I need to.
No, MS-DOS 5.0 was the last version that was available on 720kb disks. Afaik, there was no version on 1.2mb 5.25" disks either, as in 1993 these drives were simply considered unimportant and obsolete.
Could be that such disks sets were available via mail order, but I've never seen such.
Interesting, thanks.
On a side note, it's not hard to create such disks by yourself. There's a text file on disk 1 that tells the installer which file is on which disk.
I was just about to dive into the actual disks to see if that were possible, derSammler...
derSammler wrote on 2020-02-17, 16:37:No, MS-DOS 5.0 was the last version that was available on 720kb disks. Afaik, there was no version on 1.2mb 5.25" disks either, as in 1993 these drives were simply considered unimportant and obsolete.
Could be that such disks sets were available via mail order, but I've never seen such.
There must have been 5.25" version because even back of the original 6.22 ms-dos box it says that it requires 3.5" or 5.25" drive.
I found references to a 1.2mb 5.25" 6.22 version, and a 360kb 6.22 upgrade set, so I guess my options would be to install 5.0, upgrade to 6.22 via the 360kb images, or create my own 720kb 6.22 set.
I'll try the second option first.
There must have been 5.25" version because even back of the original 6.22 ms-dos box it says that it requires 3.5" or 5.25" drive.
Yes, but there are no 5.25" disks inside. I have various versions of 6.22 incl. the retail upgrade version. All come on 3.5" HD only. That's why I said it was probably available in other formats via mail order if you had no 3.5" HD drive. But I have yet to see those.
derSammler wrote on 2020-02-17, 17:01:There must have been 5.25" version because even back of the original 6.22 ms-dos box it says that it requires 3.5" or 5.25" drive.
Yes, but there are no 5.25" disks inside. I have various versions of 6.22 incl. the retail upgrade version. All come on 3.5" HD only. That's why I said it was probably available in other formats via mail order if you had no 3.5" HD drive. But I have yet to see those.
IIRC, you had to send in your original disks, and Microsoft would swap them.
Of course you don't really need to do the installation on the actual machine. Install wherever you can from the HD disks (even on some VM) copy the files and sys. There is nothing more to it.
