with MSDOS 6.22, no - you can make additional partitions of 2GB each, but DOS will only allow a total of 4 giving you 8GB

with MSDOS7.1 you can use FAT32

Then it looks like I'll upgrade to 7.1!

Will this screw anything up?

tomexplodes wrote on 2020-07-23, 18:56:

Then it looks like I'll upgrade to 7.1!

Will this screw anything up?

It will install Windows 98, because that is what is required to get MS-DOS 7.1 .

Oh. That's not what I want, then.

EDIT: What about this, here?

link removed 'cause yeah

http://www.vcfed.org/forum/archive/index.php/t-39926.html

tomexplodes wrote on 2020-07-23, 18:56:

Then it looks like I'll upgrade to 7.1!

Will this screw anything up?

Drivers for some Creative cards refuse to install under DOS 7.1 but there are modified versions which bypass this restriction.

In light of all this, maybe I'll just try to get 8gb worth of partitions out of it. Do partitions always need to be separate drive letters?

tomexplodes wrote on 2020-07-23, 19:05:

Oh. That's not what I want, then.

EDIT: What about this, here?

https://[REDACTED]

There is
a) the legal aspect (maybe OK if you already have corresponding Windows license, but I am not a lawyer)

b) Do you trust whoever put it together ?

darry wrote on 2020-07-23, 19:17:

There is a) the legal aspect (maybe OK if you already have corresponding Windows license, but I am not a lawyer) […]
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tomexplodes wrote on 2020-07-23, 19:05:

Oh. That's not what I want, then.

EDIT: What about this, here?

There is
a) the legal aspect (maybe OK if you already have corresponding Windows license, but I am not a lawyer)

b) Do you trust whoever put it together ?

Hence the whole "eh, forget it, 2gb or 8gb is enough" haha.

Don't listen to the naysayers. "MS-DOS 7.1" is just Windows 98SE DOS with the Win9x branding and GUI integration stuff removed... i.e. it doesn't try to start Windows when you boot.

I use it for all my 386+ DOS machines. Works perfectly. There are no compatibility concerns between it and DOS 6.22.

Edit: and if you are concerned about legality, if you own a copy of Windows 98 or 95B already I'd say it's OK.

keenmaster486 wrote on 2020-07-23, 19:27:

Don't listen to the naysayers. "MS-DOS 7.1" is just Windows 98SE DOS with the Win9x branding and GUI integration stuff removed... i.e. it doesn't try to start Windows when you boot.

I use it for all my 386+ DOS machines. Works perfectly. There are no compatibility concerns between it and DOS 6.22.

Edit: and if you are concerned about legality, if you own a copy of Windows 98 or 95B already I'd say it's OK.

That's good to know. Thank you! I own both, as it happens.

Is the version I linked to legit?

remember if your running 2gb with dos your running massive cluster sizes which just waste space. if your running ONLY dos and not windows, 2gb is heaps of space. or 2x2gb or 4x1gb with smaller clusters.

dos games are tiny.

GTA, NFS SE, Quest for Glory 4, etc. are not particularly small when all you have is 2gb.

tomexplodes wrote on 2020-07-23, 19:52:

keenmaster486 wrote on 2020-07-23, 19:27:

Don't listen to the naysayers. "MS-DOS 7.1" is just Windows 98SE DOS with the Win9x branding and GUI integration stuff removed... i.e. it doesn't try to start Windows when you boot.

I use it for all my 386+ DOS machines. Works perfectly. There are no compatibility concerns between it and DOS 6.22.

Edit: and if you are concerned about legality, if you own a copy of Windows 98 or 95B already I'd say it's OK.

That's good to know. Thank you! I own both, as it happens.

Is the version I linked to legit?

Define legit. It definitely isn't legal on its own. As to whether the files have been tampered with, your guess is as good as mine.

If I wanted DOS 7.1 only, I would install Windows 98 SE somewhere (like a VM), make a bootable recovery diskette, copy over the files I want to keep ( mostly c:\windows\command content), use the bootable disk to partition and format the retro machine, copy over the files I kept to the retro machine and call it a day .

darry wrote on 2020-07-23, 20:02:

tomexplodes wrote on 2020-07-23, 19:52:

keenmaster486 wrote on 2020-07-23, 19:27:

Don't listen to the naysayers. "MS-DOS 7.1" is just Windows 98SE DOS with the Win9x branding and GUI integration stuff removed... i.e. it doesn't try to start Windows when you boot.

I use it for all my 386+ DOS machines. Works perfectly. There are no compatibility concerns between it and DOS 6.22.

Edit: and if you are concerned about legality, if you own a copy of Windows 98 or 95B already I'd say it's OK.

That's good to know. Thank you! I own both, as it happens.

Is the version I linked to legit?

Define legit. It definitely isn't legal on its own. As to whether the files have been tampered with, your guess is as good as mine.

If I wanted DOS 7.1 only, I would install Windows 98 SE somewhere (like a VM), make a bootable recovery diskette, copy over the files I want to keep ( mostly c:\windows\command content), use the bootable disk to partition and format the retro machine, copy over the files I kept to the retro machine and call it a day .

I understand completely. Would you like me to remove the link? EDIT: I did it anyway

tomexplodes wrote on 2020-07-23, 20:08:

darry wrote on 2020-07-23, 20:02:

tomexplodes wrote on 2020-07-23, 19:52:

That's good to know. Thank you! I own both, as it happens.

Is the version I linked to legit?

Define legit. It definitely isn't legal on its own. As to whether the files have been tampered with, your guess is as good as mine.

If I wanted DOS 7.1 only, I would install Windows 98 SE somewhere (like a VM), make a bootable recovery diskette, copy over the files I want to keep ( mostly c:\windows\command content), use the bootable disk to partition and format the retro machine, copy over the files I kept to the retro machine and call it a day .

I understand completely. Would you like me to remove the link?

I am not a moderator here, but my guess is that they would object to the link .

In any event, all of this is moot. I was going to use a 120gb drive I found lying around in my 98 machine, but it's a dead drive, so I won't be putting a 30gb drive in my DOS machine now. The only other hard drive I have lying around is an 8gb OG Xbox drive, which is locked and formatted as a FATX drive, rendering it effectively useless. Thank you all for the info, it's much appreciated.

darry wrote on 2020-07-23, 20:13:

tomexplodes wrote on 2020-07-23, 20:08:

darry wrote on 2020-07-23, 20:02:

Define legit. It definitely isn't legal on its own. As to whether the files have been tampered with, your guess is as good as mine.

If I wanted DOS 7.1 only, I would install Windows 98 SE somewhere (like a VM), make a bootable recovery diskette, copy over the files I want to keep ( mostly c:\windows\command content), use the bootable disk to partition and format the retro machine, copy over the files I kept to the retro machine and call it a day .

I understand completely. Would you like me to remove the link?

I am not a moderator here, but my guess is that they would object to the link .

No problem. Can you take it out of the quote on your response earlier as well? Didn't mean to get your back up.

they r trolling u kinda hard. go to bootdisk.com in the wayback machine and get a 98se boot disk. then u have dos 7.1. might take some effort to find a working file back up.