Commands to Install DOS 3.30a?

[JB3783]

I'm trying to get a VM on my PC for EVERY version of dos to ever exist , I just started with 3.30a randomly & for some reason I can boot to disk... But nothing more. Any suggestions?
Is there a MAX HD/RAM size?

[mrpijey]

Have you done any research regarding DOS 3.3 and its limitations?

[buricco]

You'd be daft (IMO) to start on a version before 3.31 because of the 32 MB partition limitation.

Nevertheless, with a freshly formatted partition, this is how you would have installed DOS prior to 4.

(From disk 1)

sys c:
md c:\dos
copy a:\ c:\dos
copy a:\command.com c:\

(From disk 2)

copy a:\ c:\dos

[vizerous]

From what I can rememer there should be also SELECT utility for those purposes, and you need type something like "SELECT A: C:" from dos prompt.

[mspeter97]

I think it's a bit easier to sys the hdd, copy the files to C:\DOS, put the COMMAND.COM at the root of the HDD & create a small autoexec.bat with the following:
"@echo off
prompt $p$g
path=C:\DOS"

[xelloss]

From what I can rememer there should be also SELECT utility for those purposes, and you need type something like "SELECT A: C:" from dos prompt.

IIRC in version 3.x the SELECT utility was quite minimal: it would do little more than SYS, just creating basic CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT to set up country settings, keyboard layout, and /maybe/ code page. You probably still had to copy other dos files manually.

[rkmbrown]

And you can use /S when you format the boot partition instead of sys after you've formatted it.