Dos 5 on Dell laptop

[AndyR]

I have installed Dos 5 on my dell D610 laptop. I bought a floppy drive for the swap bay in the machine to do it ($10 on ebay). I cannot get dos to recognise the CD however using the ATAPI drivers and mscdex. I am using the drivers I used eons ago with my 1x CDROM.

Does anyone know of dos compatible drivers I could use?

It is not essential that I have a CDROM as I have my antique programs on floppy but it would be nice. I still use some old dos programs which I am slowly porting to windows.

I have set it up in a 512Mb (huge) partition at the start of the hard disk and I am now installing Dell XP back onto partition 2 and Linux suse 10.3 onto the remainder.

cheers, andy.

 

[Barrucadu]

DOS 5, eh? I can't say I've ever used DOS exclusively, though I've always wanted to try it at some point. What's it like?

 

[liquidcherry]

Andy, i will PM tomorrow a couple of compatible drivers for CD and the corrospondending boot iso's with it(need to get them from my office)

Cheers,

Frank

P.S:Mikor, DOS is like linux on steroids...LOL

 

[wikes82]

freedos.org can be installed using CD and it's the same as IBM-DOS or MS-DOS

 

[AndyR]

I have installed it and it runs OK dual booting with XP. I am a design engineer in deep foundations and we have a lot of routines and design programs still coded in quickbasic. I have started to rewrite them in .NET but I like the originals for their speed on very lowly hardware. My first x86 computer was a 286 with 1Mb of ram and 40Mb disk space and this ran dos very effectively.
I would rather store data on CD than floppy disk for portability although I have dozens of the latter, so I would like to be able to read the optical drive. Probably the drive technology has changed so much that the early drivers no longer work with current drives.

liquidcherry thanks for your offer.

andyr