DR DOS was briefly renamed to 'Novell DOS' after it was purchased by Novell. Version 7 was also briefly owned by Caldera released as OpenDOS, and then Lineo, and finally wound up under DRDOS, Inc. After Microsoft intended to merge MS-DOS and Windows 95 as one commercial product, interest in developing DR DOS further mostly stopped. Chapter 1 Introduction to Caldera DR-DOS Chapter 2 Installing Caldera DR-DOS Chapter 3 Installing Personal NetWare Chapter 4 Working with Caldera DR-DOS Chapter 5 Using the Online Documentation Chapter 6 Editing Text Files Chapter 7 Batch Processing Chapter 8 Commands Chapter 9 Configuring the System Chapter 10 Managing Memory.
I downloaded the windows xp iso file and while burning it to a CD, used the make bootable cd option in Nero. I have burned OS CDs before with the burn data disk option and it worked fine everytime. But this time, maybe because of the 'make bootable cd' option that i used, instead of going to the windows xp boot screen, it is taking me to a dos screen with some Caldera DR DOS thing, which i am not familiar with. Is there anything i can to do to take me to the normal xp setup screen or do i have to burn a new CD altogether to get my OS installed.?.
106 Answers SOURCE: Alot of the reason is because they don't want you to down grade from Vista to XP. But see if this helps. Start your pc, insert XP disk, as soon as the screen comes up press f12 which will allow you to choose the booting sequence, click CD- ROM and the disk should start to be read. Understand this tho by downgrading you will have a hard time finding the appropiate drivers for most of your devises since they were meant to be runned by Vista.
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Here's a tip go find the drivers in europe (be it toshiba.europe, Dell.europe) for they are still running XP. To find the drivers for your particu;ar pc just find the series number and the last unit to run with xp and viola a working xp on a vista pc. Hope this helped Good Luck =) Posted on May 30, 2009. 36 Answers SOURCE: The problem is hard enough for beginners. First: 1.DR DOS is used by ASUS.
DR DOS isn't MS-DOS (Microsoft), just 99% compatible with it. You have access with it on whole HDD+cd/dvd but, because drdos will enable only 8MB RAM you can't install winnt.exe from i386. There are at least 2 solutions: a. If drdos is enable because u reseted BIOS try to change bios according to a better result (avoiding Caldera) and start a nice windows installation; b. U may use another desktop/laptop until the first restart (in installation); u must try to use a computer with motherboard for best results. Don't forget that DR DOS Caldera is almost every time used on ASUS MBs with all on board and you must have a PS2 keyboard/mouse to use any kind of DOS. I read sometimes that DRDOS is a soft used by Microsoft which it's wrong - there isn't any link between drdos and any windows system, genuine or not.
DRDOS problem might appear because it's a soft put on ASUS MB cd driver and, sometime, might be on a BIOS ROM.When u will boot with the MB cd driver in this kind of problem might occur. Other way Caldera may appear is when u have a windows cd made careless with NERO and caldera will appear no matter the MB. Posted on Mar 06, 2010.
FREE SOFTWARE FOR DOS Operating Systems, Free Software for DOS Operating Systems 21 Aug 2006 Global Menu: This page: DOSes FreeDOS Free MS-DOS clone with many improvements. updated 2006-03-14 'The goal.is to create a free implementation of MS-DOS' that 'Works on old hardware, in DOS emulators, and in embedded systems.' Some components can be plugged into any DOS. With many new and enhanced functions, and an impressive array of addons, this DOS is worth serious attention. Authors: The many contributors to the FreeDOS Project, founded and coordinated by Jim Hall. 2005-11-30: Beta 9 Service Release #2. Go to the for news, info and downloads.
Linux users: See, further down this page, for a variant of this OS. Also worth visiting is, a project 'to provide a heavily modularized framework to enable features that legacy DOS systems don't have, like 32-bit flat memory model, optimized I/O, support for many file systems, compatibility layers, support for modern standards.'
ROM-DOS Fully compatible DOS, runs from disk or ROM. added 2006-08-21 ROM-DOS was originally developed to run from ROMs in handheld computers and other embedded systems, but it also runs from a floppy or fixed disk. The main download package contains versions 6.22 and 7.1. Both are compatible with other DOSes that have similar version numbers, but with added features: Full support for FAT32/LBA hard disks and Long File Names (up to 260 chars), ZModem file transfer, TCP/IP stack, and much more. Free for personal use. Runs on Intel 80186+, NEC V-series, and other compatible CPUs. ROM-DOS can be used as the base for Win3.x/9x, and as the secondary command processor under any Windows.
Author: (2006). 2006-04-12: v7.10 Revision 4.20.1588SU. Go to Datalight's, and register or sign in (free, requires email address only). Then go to Resources and download the Single User Version (4.3MB), which includes v6.22, v7.10, diskette image, and manual. Also available are the Single User Network Add-on (1.9MB), and many docs that supplement the manual in the main package. DR-DOS and OpenDOS 7.01 / 7.02 / 7.03 The Digital Research-Novell-Caldera-Lineo DOSes, now free.
updated 2005-06-22 DR-DOS, direct descendant of Digital Research's CP/M, the first OS for microcomputers, has been upgraded and expanded to compete very well against other DOSes for the PC. Variants of it support for large FAT32 multi-partition hard disks, networking, 80386 protected mode services, and more.
And it works with Windows 3.x! A very brief (and possibly confusing) business history: Digital Research developed DR-DOS up to v6.0, then sold it to, which renamed it Novell DOS, and then developed it up to v7. The next owner, Caldera Systems (now part of ) renamed it OpenDOS and released v7.01 and v7.02. Ownership next passed to Lineo (originally Caldera Thin Clients, and now ), which changed the name OpenDOS 7.02 to DR-DOS 7.02, and then released v7.03.
The current owner, (formerly Devicelogics, Inc.) sells bootable and embedded variants of v7.03. Digital Research Novell Caldera Lineo DRDOS, Inc. DR-DOS 6 Novell DOS 6 Novell DOS 7 OpenDOS 7.01 OpenDOS 7.02 DR-DOS 7.02 DR-DOS 7.03 DR-DOS 7.03 Binaries for three versions are free for private, non-commercial use, in the packages listed below. OpenDOS 7.01 is available in two bundles: Full, with (PNW) and NetWareClients (NWC); and Lite, without PNW/NWC.
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