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MS-DOS 5.0

Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2003 6:08 am
by m3mn0n
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?

Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2003 8:37 am
by JayBird
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.

Mark

Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2003 10:14 am
by maniac9
<cough>linux</cough>

Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2003 12:59 am
by m3mn0n
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. :(

Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2003 1:13 am
by Nay
Try http://www.linuxquestions.org

They solved a lot of my problems, yes, even the stupid ones :lol:.

-Nay

Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2003 1:42 am
by microthick
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

Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2003 1:43 am
by m3mn0n
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*

Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2003 1:57 am
by infolock
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...

Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2003 6:16 am
by m3mn0n
thanks for that, i did the same thing, but 3 times more pages, and no luck either :x

Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2003 4:45 pm
by Weirdan
Sami, have you tried eDonkey search? I found several msdos distributions there (only v6.22).