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m3mn0n
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by m3mn0n » Sun Nov 23, 2003 6:08 am
I need a copy of MS-DOS 5.0 for this old laptop of mine that runs windows 3.1
I've heard in many places that it is now public domain. Anyone know where you could download it?
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by JayBird » Sun Nov 23, 2003 8:37 am
i have a copy of windows v1 from 1985 if ya interested...no seriously.
It is only 900k
i did know of an FTP where you could downalod every version of windows and DOS....EVER.
I see if i can dig it out and if it is still active or not.
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by maniac9 » Sun Nov 23, 2003 10:14 am
<cough>linux</cough>
m3mn0n
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by m3mn0n » Mon Nov 24, 2003 12:59 am
Thx infolock.
Linux won't load on this laptop, it only has 16 mb of ram.
I know there is a version of linux that could run on such a piece of junk but I had a very hard time finding which one does.
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by Nay » Mon Nov 24, 2003 1:13 am
Try
http://www.linuxquestions.org
They solved a
lot of my problems, yes, even the stupid ones
.
-Nay
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by microthick » Mon Nov 24, 2003 1:42 am
i found this link for ms dos 6.22 which is what i used when i had win 3.11
http://pos-ey.com/files.htm
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m3mn0n
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by m3mn0n » Mon Nov 24, 2003 1:43 am
post it,
right now it says i have ms-dos 7.0 installed =\
i'm betting it was because i used a windows 98 bootdisk to install win3.1...
ive never really downgraded or uninstalled a DOS before so another problem i have is getting documentation about that...*sigh*
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by infolock » Mon Nov 24, 2003 1:57 am
sorry sami, i searched about 90 page results on google, and couldn't find a one
i think i might still have those disks around here somewhere though...
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by m3mn0n » Mon Nov 24, 2003 6:16 am
thanks for that, i did the same thing, but 3 times more pages, and no luck either
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by Weirdan » Mon Nov 24, 2003 4:45 pm
Sami, have you tried eDonkey search? I found several msdos distributions there (only v6.22).