Q117245: Manual MS-DOS Installation When SETUP.EXE Fails

Article: Q117245
Product(s): Microsoft Disk Operating System
Version(s): MS-DOS:6.0,6.2,6.21,6.22
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Last Modified: 21-NOV-1999

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft MS-DOS operating system versions 6.0, 6.2, 6.21, 6.22 
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SUMMARY
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If a regular or manual installation of MS-DOS fails because SETUP.EXE does not
run correctly, you may be able to use a batch file called EXPALL.BAT to perform
a successful manual installation. EXPALL.BAT is discussed on pages 553-554 of
the Microsoft Windows 3.0 "User's Guide." This file was originally designed to
perform a network installation of Windows 3.0. In the steps below, it has been
adapted to perform an installation of MS-DOS to the C:\DOS subdirectory.

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1. Boot your machine with Disk 1 (Setup) of the MS-DOS disk set you are
  upgrading to by inserting the disk in drive A and pressing CTRL+ALT+DEL. When
  the message "Starting MS-DOS ..." appears on the screen, press the F5 key to
  bypass MS-DOS Setup.

  IMPORTANT: If your Disk 1 fits in drive B only, you must first install MS-DOS
  to a floppy disk in drive A (use the command B:\SETUP /F). Then boot with the
  floppy disk created in drive A and follow the above instructions. If SETUP /F
  does not run, you must obtain a copy of MS-DOS that is the same media type as
  your boot disk drive and then perform step 1.

2. Transfer the MS-DOS system files to the hard disk drive with the following
  command:

     a:sys c:

3. Make sure Disk 1 is no longer in drive A. Reboot your machine from the hard
  disk drive, and press F5 when the message "Starting MS-DOS ..." appears on
  the screen to ensure no unnecessary drivers are loaded.

4. Create the directory C:\DOS.

NOTE: We do not recommended that you copy files from the disk created with the
SETUP /F command to C:\DOS because all MS-DOS files are not present on that
disk.

1. Copy EXPAND.EXE from the MS-DOS Disk 1 (Setup) to the C:\DOS directory.

2. Change to the C:\DOS directory on the hard disk, and create EXPALL.BAT with
  COMMAND.COM by typing the following lines (be sure to press ENTER after each
  line):

  " COPY CON EXPALL.BAT
  %1
  FOR %%i IN (*.*) DO C:\DOS\EXPAND %%i C:\DOS\%%i
  C:
  CTRL + Z " (without the quotation marks)

3. Run EXPALL.BAT with the source disk drive indicated (such as EXPALL A: or
  EXPALL B:). The command must be repeated for each disk you are installing.

4. Rename the files expanded to the C:\DOS directory from their compressed names
  to their decompressed filenames.

  a. First rename the following files:

  rename dblspace.in_ dblspace.inf
  rename memmaker.in_ memmaker.inf

  b. Perform the following commands to rename the remaining files:

     rename *.38_ *.386
     rename *.bi_ *.bin
     rename *.co_ *.com
     rename *.cp_ *.cpi
     rename *.dl_ *.dll
     rename *.ex_ *.exe
     rename *.ov_ *.ovl
     rename *.sy_ *.sys
     rename *.tx_ *.txt
     rename *.gr_ *.grp
     rename *.hl_ *.hlp
     rename *.ls_ *.lst
     rename *.pr_ *.pro

5. Copy the files WINA20.386 and DBLSPACE.BIN (or DRVSPACE.BIN in MS-DOS 6.22)
  to the root directory, and set the attributes of DBLSPACE.BIN or DRVSPACE.BIN
  to Hidden, System, and Read-Only by using the ATTRIB command as follows:

     c:\dos\attrib c:\???space.bin +r +s +h

Additional query words: tshoot t-shoot fail clean boot run setup hangs 6.00 6.20

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Technology        : kbMSDOSSearch kbMSDOS621 kbMSDOS622 kbMSDOS620 kbMSDOS600
Version           : MS-DOS:6.0,6.2,6.21,6.22

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