The only places I see Caldera and DR-DOS are in the hard drive diagnostic utilities from Seagate and Maxtor. If you are trying to install Linux what you need are the iso files for that distro usually around six, if on CDs, or 1 if on dvd. The Caldera-Lineo versions 7.01 / 7.02 / 7.03 are available at the download sites. Enhanced DR-DOS is based on Caldera OpenDOS 7.01, with integrated.
I downloaded the windows xp iso file and while burning it to a CD, used the make bootable cd option in Nero. I have burned OS CDs before with the burn data disk option and it worked fine everytime. But this time, maybe because of the 'make bootable cd' option that i used, instead of going to the windows xp boot screen, it is taking me to a dos screen with some Caldera DR DOS thing, which i am not familiar with. Is there anything i can to do to take me to the normal xp setup screen or do i have to burn a new CD altogether to get my OS installed.?
• 106 Answers SOURCE: Alot of the reason is because they don't want you to down grade from Vista to XP. But see if this helps. Download a happy birthday song for free.
Start your pc, insert XP disk, as soon as the screen comes up press f12 which will allow you to choose the booting sequence, click CD- ROM and the disk should start to be read. Understand this tho by downgrading you will have a hard time finding the appropiate drivers for most of your devises since they were meant to be runned by Vista. Here's a tip go find the drivers in europe (be it toshiba.europe, Dell.europe) for they are still running XP. To find the drivers for your particu;ar pc just find the series number and the last unit to run with xp and viola a working xp on a vista pc.
Hope this helped Good Luck =) Posted on May 30, 2009. • 36 Answers SOURCE: The problem is hard enough for beginners. First: 1.DR DOS is used by ASUS.
DR DOS isn't MS-DOS (Microsoft), just 99% compatible with it. You have access with it on whole HDD+cd/dvd but, because drdos will enable only 8MB RAM you can't install winnt.exe from i386. There are at least 2 solutions: a. If drdos is enable because u reseted BIOS try to change bios according to a better result (avoiding Caldera) and start a nice windows installation; b. U may use another desktop/laptop until the first restart (in installation); u must try to use a computer with ~motherboard for best results. Don't forget that DR DOS Caldera is almost every time used on ASUS MBs with all on board and you must have a PS2 keyboard/mouse to use any kind of DOS. I read sometimes that DRDOS is a soft used by Microsoft which it's wrong - there isn't any link between drdos and any windows system, genuine or not.
DRDOS problem might appear because it's a soft put on ASUS MB cd driver and, sometime, might be on a BIOS ROM.When u will boot with the MB cd driver in this kind of problem might occur. Other way Caldera may appear is when u have a windows cd made careless with NERO and caldera will appear no matter the MB. Posted on Mar 06, 2010.
How to install dos (vmware): Here is the correct procedure to install MSDOS 6.22 1. Setup VM to boot from the MSDOS CD/Floppy/ISO.
After the machine as booted exit the setup program (F3). Type fdisk and create a partition and make it active. Reboot again with the CD/Floppy/ISO. After the machine as booted exit the setup program (F3). Type format c: /q /s 7. Reboot again with the CD/Floppy/ISO.
The setup program will now allow you to install MSDOS. Reboot again with the CD/Floppy/ISO. Select option 2 to install the CDRom drivers. You can now boot MSDOS from the harddisk.
If you're having trouble with the install of DOS or the copy of windows it's because they're set to install from drive d: You also need 2 make a dos partition, a 999mb fat 16 partition, set is as active and it'll install fine. After that, you can dual boot or whatever, right now my lappy boots dos/win31, debian, vista, and osx on just one hd. If you have more than 1 HD, and more than 1 cdrom, you just need to temporarily unplug them so that your HD is your c: drive and your ONE cd-drive is your d: drive. This will fix all the probs I'm reading about here, really an ez fix.
No reason to run memoryhog dosbox, just install this iso and run all your fav dos games. After you install you can hook your drives back up and everything is fine.
Enjoy this shit and keep seeding. After installing DOS, I had problems getting it to recognise my CDROM under Parallels 5 (mac). Heres how I fixed it 1) Download the NEC cdrom driver (probably lots of others would work too) 2) Get it onto your DOS drive somehow (onto root of C drive). For this I mounted a virtual floppy drive in another Parallels VM, and copied it from there onto the virtual floppy.