Bootable Dos 6.22 CD

[Jmdlcar]

Is it possible to make a Bootable Dos 6.22 CD? I want to make Bootable cd with Dos 6.22 and all the programs I want on it to. That way I can show other what Dos look like. I would after it booted it would be on Floppy a: drive. I try to make it with PowerISO but couldn't do it or I didn't know how.

Any help would be great.

[DaveLembke]

FREEDOS is the best solution for this vs putting DOS 6.22 on a CD. FREEDOS you boot from CD and it acts exactly like DOS. Very little is unsupported. Even DOS games can run through FREEDOS. Additionally FREEDOS is free and no issues with EULA of the Microsoft license.

[Jmdlcar]

I downloaded all 5 of there files. Which one will boot up like Dos because I don't use Windows. I use Linux.

[DaveLembke]

FREEDOS should bring you to a prompt when loaded and it will load direct from CD. No Windows or GUI environment. Additionally FREEDOS's internals were built off of Linux from what I have been told. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeDOS

[Salmon Trout]

Worth noting that genuine (Microsoft) MS-DOS version 6.22 (or any other version) is a copyright product and also all Microsoft licenses forbid extraction of files and their incorporation into other products, whether sold or given away. MS-DOS 6 CD releases don't legally exist. MS-DOS is not "abandonware".

[patio]

And your goal of it being loaded in A: after using a bootable CD ain't gonna happen...

[Salmon Trout]

And your goal of it being loaded in A: after using a bootable CD ain't gonna happen...

I believe that if you create a bootable CD using 'floppy emulation' you would get an A: drive with the actual CD ISO files being on whatever letter MSCDEX takes. HOWEVER a  legal bootable FreeDOS CD I have found, http://pingtool.org/downloads/fd11src_live.iso boots into the CD part, Drive E:, on the system I tried it with, but you can go to an emulated floppy by typing A: and hitting ENTER.

[Salmon Trout]

According to the El Torito specification, a 32-bit CPU PC BIOS will search for boot code on an ISO 9660 CD-ROM. The standard allows for booting in two different modes. Either in hard disk emulation when the boot information can be accessed directly from the CD media, or in floppy emulation mode where the boot information is stored in an image file of a floppy disk, which is loaded from the CD and then behaves as a virtual floppy disk. This is useful for computers built before about 1999, which were designed to boot only from floppy drive.

[patio]

Thanx for that info Salmon...

[Jmdlcar]

I'm not going to sell, trade  giveaway. I just to show people the old Dos and what it look like. I didn't know I was going to cause a problem beside I own all the Software in question. I just others. I'm 70 years old. Everyone have a good day.

[Geek-9pm]

For what it is worth...
Yes, somebody did do a boot up CD of  DOS 6.22 and if you use it without a linseed  you violate the Microsoft copyright.

But FreeDOS is free. And you can use to make a bootable   USB device.
See the Rufus documentation.

Or see this link:
How to use Rufus to create a bootable USB drive to install (almost) any OS
You will note that Rufus can use FreeDOS to make a USB stick bootable.
 

[Jmdlcar]

Which one will work with CD and install on a Hard Drive? I do not use Windows just Linux.

CDROMCDROM “standard” installer

CDROMCDROM “legacy” installer

floppyBoot floppy (see notes below)

USB driveUSB “Full” installer

USB driveUSB “Lite” installer

[Geek-9pm]

You don't have Rufus for Linux. Rufus is a windows program.
See this:
https://alternativeto.net/software/rufus/?platform=linux

UNetbootin

UNetbootin (Universal Netboot Installer) is a cross-platform utility that can create Live USB systems and can load a variety of system utilities or install various Linux.
...

Etcher

Etcher is a free and open-source image burner with support for Windows, OS X and GNU/Linux. It makes USB and SD card image burning as simple and fast as possible. ...

Then thee is YUMI, which deserves special mention.
YUMI – Multiboot USB Creator

IMPORTANT NOTES: Your USB drive must be Fat16/Fat32/NTFS formatted, otherwise Syslinux will fail and your drive will NOT Boot. NTFS may not work with every distribution but is required for storing files over 4GB. YUMI UEFI must use Fat32 format.
YUMI can be used to format your select USB drive, but be aware that all partitions on the selected drive will also be deleted. Ensure that you have made a backup of any information you want to keep before using YUMI on any drive.

That warning may also apply to other tools that make USB bookable devices.  Yes, it is a multi boot thing, but it has to  format the  whole drive as one.

I don't believe YUMI writes to CD. NI nver tried. .