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Trying to install MS-DOS on a IBM PS/2 30-286

NeXT said:
Just before we go too far off on a tangent here...
Fizz, it does not matter which version of DOS you use. MS-DOS and PC-DOS will work. Both are bootable on the PS/2.
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yes im happy to use any version of MS-DOS
but it did come wit dos 6.22 installed before i broke it
 
mR_Slug said:
As mentioned the drives are terrible. It could be marginal now and probably will fail at some point. However If one disk without bad sectors works, it looks like the drive is operational.

I use WinImage. I don't know if it works on 10 though.
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i belive the drive is working, i am able to coppy the starter disk onto the floppy and then boot from it so reading and writing is working, also when i got the system i took the top of the drive and cleand the heads and the rails
 
mR_Slug said:
If you are getting sector errors with winimage, then your floppys are defective. Or your drive needs a head clean. I've found that most of my 1.44MB floppys have bad sectors. I remember once i had to go thru like 15-20 disks to find a perfect one. Eventually bough a gotec, but that wont help you with a PS/2.

If you haven't got any disks without bad sectors, if you can somehow format a disk on another system it will mask the bad sectors. You can then make the disk bootable, with the SYS A: command. Put the disk in the PS/2 and then do SYS C:. This will get you a bootable HDD.

Writing an image requires that there are 0 bad sectors.
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what ive been doing is formating the disks on the system using the starter disk and ill try to write the image to them using winimage, im just using a generic usb floppy drive of amazon but i am looking at getting an ibm one
 
modem7 said:
I use WinImage (as administrator) on my WIN10 computer, using an external USB 3.5" drive.
Any operation involving formatting (e.g. 'Format', 'Format and write disk') is problematic.
Errors such as 'The current image format is not supported by the disk drive', and failing verification.

720K and 1.44M diskettes.

A Sony model MPF82E-U1 and a Teac FD-05PUB.

What works reliably for me is formatting the diskette in a command window, closing the command window, then using the 'Write disk' operation of WinImage
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i can format the disk on the ps/2 but when i try to write to it with winimage i select write only but it will still format it and then write to it, how do i skip this ?
 
Fizz said:
im in australia, victoria
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It'll pay to put that under your member name all the same Fizz.

NeXT is absolutely correct and it will run DRDos just fine as well.

vwestlife made a nice comparison over a decade ago of the memory foot print of variuos Dos variants over a decade ago. PC/MS Dos 3.3 and PC Dos 7/2k had the smallest memory foot print.
 
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ok

right now im able to write a MS-DOS image to the disk with 1 or 2 errors and the computer will boot but it will get stuck on starting MS-DOS
and i was able to get it to write secsessfully but it says its not a system disk

im hoping that the disk is bad and when i get some new ones they will work
 
Fizz said:
i can format the disk on the ps/2 but when i try to write to it with winimage i select write only but it will still format it and then write to it, how do i skip this ?
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I don't know, maybe winimage and 10 and USB floppy is a bad combination.

You can format a disk with bad sectors and copy FILES to it. You cannot write a disk image to a disk with bad sectors and expect it to work properly.
 
modem7 said:
I'm in a good position to supply you with known-good DOS installation diskettes. If you're interested, send me a direct message (via the envelope icon at top-right).
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Feedback from the OP is that the supplied installation disks allowed him/her to successfully install MS-DOS.
 
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