ms <ms@invalid.com> wrote in news:5sokbnF1a3masU1@mid.individual.net:
> ms <ms@invalid.com> wrote in news:5so4j4F1acjvbU1@mid.individual.net:
>
>> "Ben Myers" <benjmyers@mindR-e-m-o-v-Espring.com> wrote in
>> news:#Ps6pTOQIHA.6036@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl:
>>
>>> "ms" <ms@invalid.com> wrote in message
>>> news:5snvrhF19ircnU2@mid.individual.net...
>>>> "Ben Myers" <benjmyers@mindR-e-m-o-v-Espring.com> wrote in
>>>> news:enWyucNQIHA.2376@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl:
>>>> Ben, thanks, you are always helpful.
>>>> Having tried other things, finally your help above did the trick,
>>>> as Philo mentioned earlier. A boot disk from that site has all the
>>>> needed
>>>
>>>> files on one disk, no install is necessary, which helped in this
>>>> case. Everything worked fine, fdisk, format, boots up to a DOS 6.22
>>>> C
>>> prompt.
>>>> No W95 mention at all. It is finally a true DOS machine.
>>>> Now, one minor glitch, each bootup it asks for confirm date and
>>>> time, maybe thats a DOS default to live with.
>>>
>>> Create a "c:\autoexec.bat" file. It can be empty or one that
>>> actually does something.
>>>
>>> Ben
>>>
>> Thanks, will do that.
>>
>> Somethings not quite normal, yet.
>>
>> I want to install DOS 6,22, my disks say with disk #1 inserted,
>> reboot and setup will start, it did yesterday at some point, but
>> today on reboot it says "Invalid system disk, replace disk....."
>>
>> Would have thought that would go OK. My 6.22 disks are IIRC, the MS
>> DOS version.
>>
>> Guess a question is: how to install, maybe copy files to C with a
>> real directory this time, run it from C, although that may not work
>> with this.
>>
>> ms
>
> Hope someone has ideas on this. I just did a search for DOS
> newsgroups, I found very few with any activity, even alt.dos.batch has
> only about 5 posts in the past month.
>
> ms
>
The boot sequence may be the problem. If it looks to A first, that would
explain the message.
ms