DOS 6.22

Swordfish · 19 Feb 2012 at 12:54

I'm in need of a set of DOS 6.22 setup floppy discs. I've tried to find these on the web without success. I did download the DOS 6.22 boot disc from bootdisk.com and ran that but all this seems to do is create a bootable floppy for running fdisk and format on the new drive.

Anyone have any idea as to where I can get my hands on a set of these floppies?

PermaBanned · 19 Feb 2012 at 18:21

What do you need it for? Can't you use FreeDOS?

Swordfish · 19 Feb 2012 at 18:44

Managed to find them about an hour ago.

It's for a very old Pc that is used for some form on diagnostics software and apparently only runs under 6.22. Current hard drive failed and i stuck in an old 20GB I had lying around and all it needs it 6.22 installed on. Windows version of the software is arouind 10K I'm told.

Gonna have a look at FreeDOS in any case cheers.

bledd · 19 Feb 2012 at 20:07

Try this..

http://www.syschat.com/download60.html

Swordfish · 19 Feb 2012 at 21:38

bledd. said:
Try this..

http://www.syschat.com/download60.html

Cheers for that, will keep a hold of it for future use (if any !), but system I'm installing DOS onto does not have a CD Drive, in fact it is sold old it still uses a Din Pin for a keyboard.

Hagar · 19 Feb 2012 at 21:50

I still have MSDOS 5 on a Laptop used to run some old engineering software. The programs also require an epson compatible printer attached to the parallel port.

Windows 98 was the last version of windows to have a proper dos cmd if you want to try running in a windowed dos enironment.

bledd · 19 Feb 2012 at 22:01

Pay the 10k, not worth the head ache

CaptainCrash · 19 Feb 2012 at 22:26

Swordfish said:
It's for a very old Pc that is used for some form on diagnostics software and apparently only runs under 6.22. Current hard drive failed and i stuck in an old 20GB I had lying around and all it needs it 6.22 installed on. Windows version of the software is arouind 10K I'm told.

Swordfish said:
...but system I'm installing DOS onto does not have a CD Drive, in fact it is sold old it still uses a Din Pin for a keyboard.

Could you run the software in a DOS virtual machine on a modern PC? That way it would be pretty much indestructible (assuming it was backed up, obviously), you could easily transfer it between PCs and you wouldn't be left waiting for the next ancient component to fail...

Phil2008 · 20 Feb 2012 at 01:12

This thread brings back memories

PermaBanned · 20 Feb 2012 at 01:23

CaptainCrash said:
Could you run the software in a DOS virtual machine on a modern PC? That way it would be pretty much indestructible (assuming it was backed up, obviously), you could easily transfer it between PCs and you wouldn't be left waiting for the next ancient component to fail...

Depending on the diagnostic software and what it does, knowing how well DOS deals with networking it might just diagnose the virtual machine rather than the machine you want it to.

CaptainCrash · 20 Feb 2012 at 08:49

PermaBanned said:
Depending on the diagnostic software and what it does, knowing how well DOS deals with networking it might just diagnose the virtual machine rather than the machine you want it to.

As it's apparently some kind of specialised application I was guessing (possibly unwisely) that it's diagnosing something attached to the PC, rather than the machine itself - VMware supports serial port passthrough, and it also recognises parallel ports on the host machine, although from what I've read bidirectional support can be a bit iffy (haven't tried it myself).

Given the age of the PC, I don't suppose it has any USB ports, unless it has some kind of add-in card (edit: I've just realised what a daft comment that was anyway...

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Swordfish · 20 Feb 2012 at 18:57

PermaBanned said:
Depending on the diagnostic software and what it does, knowing how well DOS deals with networking it might just diagnose the virtual machine rather than the machine you want it to.

CaptainCrash said:
As it's apparently some kind of specialised application I was guessing (possibly unwisely) that it's diagnosing something attached to the PC, rather than the machine itself - VMware supports serial port passthrough, and it also recognises parallel ports on the host machine, although from what I've read bidirectional support can be a bit iffy (haven't tried it myself).

Given the age of the PC, I don't suppose it has any USB ports, unless it has some kind of add-in card (edit: I've just realised what a daft comment that was anyway... )

Machine is years old. Anyway tried to install DOS this morning to no avail. BIOS kept finding then losing the HD. Replaced CMOS and fitted a working drive with the same results.

I've got a very old laptop which will run DOS so gonna install it on that and see what happens.

As for running in a virtual box of some kind the PC owner has been told that "this will not be possible" and he "should seriously consider buying the software that runs on Win 7 (at a cost of around £10K)" This might or not be a ploy by the software company but we'll see.

It's been "fun" though !!