[durant125]

Never used DOS before (I'm a youngin). I have a SATA drive only, will any version work!

[HalTrout]

DOS 6.2 should run just fine on your system. Learning all the DOS commands will be time consuming for you. For what you get from DOS it probably isn't worth it.

[JohnWill]

You can also run Virtual PC, free for download from Microsoft. That way you can run DOS in a virtual machine to your heart's content, and still have Windows to fall back on.

[durant125]

TY Guys.

[html81993]

I know that this has been solved already, but if you want to learn DOS commands, follow these steps (for Windows XP). Go to start, All Programs, Accesories, Command Prompt. Type (without quotes) "Help |More". The '|' is Shift+[Key Above Enter]. Good luck in learning, DOS is a lot of fun.

[durant125]

TY, but isn't there more to DOS than the cmd prompt?

[JohnWill]

Well, exactly what part of DOS do you have a need for? I guess I don't understand the purpose here. If you just want to rub elbows with MS-DOS, Virtual PC will do the trick. If you want to tinker with MS-DOS on the bare metal, you'll need to install it as your boot system.

[durant125]

Well eventually i want to play with with it as a bootable system, but I will probably play with it in VMWare for now, which should show me the install process and the full fledge OS, correct?

Oh by the way is there a Virtual Machine for Linux? I know a program called Crossweaver that has Windows Bottles but it is nothing like VMWare.

[DoubleHelix]

I installed a Linux distro once using Virtual PC. I wouldn't waste too much time on DOS. Not too many uses for it in the real world anymore. I would suggest learning Linux, perhaps batch files, and Windows scripting.

[JohnWill]

VMWARE runs on Linux.

[durant125]

WOOHOO Thanks!!!