[comp.os.msdos.apps] Problem Installing DOS 5.0

dkrause@miami.acs.uci.edu (Doug Krause) (06/18/91)

I bought the upgrade and I'm having trouble installing it.  I cleared
out 3mb of disk space and shut down all my TSRs and I have more than
512K memory free.  I put in Disk 1 and typed a:setup and after it
accessed the floppy and hard drive three or four times, it just sits
there and stares at me.

I had a friend make me a bootable disk and my system is happy to run
5.0 for me, but that's as close as I can get.  I've got Phoenix BIOS
(I think it's Ver 2.13 [I got it on a Leading Edge Model D in 1986]).

Any ideas?

(BTW, I just remembered that I have three device drivers running,
CLKDRV.SYS (it handles my date/time), ANSI.SYS, and VDISK.SYS.
Would they mess things up?)

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jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org (Joe Morris) (06/18/91)

dkrause@miami.acs.uci.edu (Doug Krause) writes:


>I bought the upgrade and I'm having trouble installing it.  I cleared
>out 3mb of disk space and shut down all my TSRs and I have more than
>512K memory free.  I put in Disk 1 and typed a:setup and after it
>accessed the floppy and hard drive three or four times, it just sits
>there and stares at me.

What video board are you using?  There are numerous reports from 
the Windows installation world of problems caused by video boards
which confuse the automatic configuration features of the setup
program.  You might want to make a note of what brand and model
card you've got and then call Microsoft.  I've never seen installations
fail in this manner but your problem sounds similar to what I've heard
from Microsoft.

Joe Morris