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by fsckboy 1210 days ago
if you have a working Windows 95 or 98 you can format /s a disk and copy the same DOS utilities over to it, and boot it just like a newer version of DOS. W95 is easy, W98 was a little trickier, or maybe I'm thinking of Me, I can't remember any more.
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Yeah, I used format /s and copying the other files with the DOS 3.20 that came with the computer to install to that version the compact flash. So that would be an easy way to get a newer DOS installed as well, but I don't have a newer DOS or Windows 9x computer. I ended up installing standalone MS-DOS 6.22 on a VM image and writing that to the compact flash.