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Switch from MS-DOS 6.21 to Windows DOS Box? (Users)

posted by marcov, 24.04.2014, 11:13

> My preferred solution would be to use a "null modem" cable (serial port -
> slower transfer) or a "null printer" cable (parallel port - faster
> transfer). These are specially-made cables used only for this purpose.
> (You can NOT use regular serial or parallel cables.) Then get a
> file-transfer program (need to install a copy on both source and target
> systems). I used to use ZIP.COM by Eric Meyer (latest version 2.22
> 2006-Apr-25) to do just this:

If the HD is standard 2.5" IDE, just get/borrow a converter and put it in a somewhat recent PC. Take an image and burn it on DVDs for long term saving, then try to copy the contents to a newer HD. (I used Linux because at that time it allowed to somehow specify to mount the volume without LFN, your local LUG might be able to help you there), and then make it bootable using a bootflop and sys c:

If the new hardware supports LBA, there is not that much risk with swapping HDDs.

I maintained a bunch of terminals connected to a trunk weighing installation for a while.

> If you are set on Windows anyway, i'd suggest 98SE -- the last version to
> "play nice" with DOS... and the last MS product to include a "fully
> functional", stand-alone, real DOS (MS-DOS 7.1). Unless you set it up on
> an older system, though, you'll have tons of driver (and other) headaches.

In the long run, you want to find out what the exact status of your installation is, and what can be migrated to a somewhat up to date system, and what must go into an emulation.

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