faulty set-up disc

[eboyjones]

I have a faulty set-up disc for dos 6.2. I ran scandisc on the disc and there were no problems. You can open and examine disc, but it won't start installation process. Is there a way I can copy and then expand all three disc's on c: drive without using expand.exe on each individual file? For example could I write a batch file to do this? Appreciate your thoughts for a new member.

[davidgsmith]

Hey There,
Are you saying that after you type: setup [enter] from the A:\ prompt, nothing happens?

What error msg to you get?

If you know all of the file extensions you could make a batch file with a line for each filetype:

expand a:\*.ex_ C:\DOS\*.exe
expand a:\*.co_ C:\DOS\*.com
expand a:\*.sy_ C:\DOS\*.sys

I think that would work, try it.
Also check out Vern's DOS 6.x helpfiles on the 'expand' command.
http://vernon.frazee.net/ms-dos/6.22/help/expand.htm#Examples

Have fun !
Dave

[tiberiuscan]

What you describe is not uncommon. I've had the same problem. Let's face it floppies do get old. If you have a DOS directory on your computer you usually have all the files copied there. You may be able to create new setup disks. Evere since the first time that happened to me I have kept backup copies of all setup disks.

[Eeyore]

See DOS Installation (http://www.geocities.com/politalk/dos/install.htm). Go to Alternative Methods. If your DOS 6.20 is not an Upgrade and you have another version of DOS already installed, it won't install. If it is an Upgrade, you must have DOS already on the computer. If it is and upgrade, some of the files are incomplete as it combines the upgade file with existing files.

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