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From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Nur Iskandar Taib)
Subject: Re: Cnvrt MS-DOS 5.0 from 3.5 to 5.25 HELP
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Date: Tue, 25 Jun 91 02:05:53 GMT
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>>>Could some kind soul post the directories of the 5.25 version of the MS-DOS
>>>5.0 upgrade pack so I can make such diskettes from my 3.5's?  (Or can someone


>>   The Dos diskettes and software is Copywritten material. 
>>  What you are trying to do is illegal, isn't it?

>You took the words right out of my mouth...
>		Marek



Well, it shouldn't be illegal, if the user
has paid for the 3 1/2" copy. If he owns a 
license, he can install it on one machine,
it doesn't really matter how it gets there. 
Besides, you can make backup copies onto any
media, right? Now here is what I would do: 
install it on a machine with a 3 1/2" drive,
make a bootable 5 1/4" diskette (the machine 
has both size drives), copy the contents of 
c:\DOS onto more diskettes, then wipe the 
copy off that machine. Next, boot off the 
floppy on the machine without a 3 1/2" drive,
then sys the hard drive. Then replace the
contents of the \DOS subdirectory with the
DOS 5 versions. 

This is probably the hard way. I recall 
someone else posting an easier way (I 
think installing it directly onto a 5 1/4"
floppy, which produces a bootable diskette).



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