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          TITLE: Manual Installation of DR Multiuser DOS
   DOCUMENT ID#: FYI-M-1907
           DATE: 28DEC92
        PRODUCT: DR MULTIUSER DOS
PRODUCT VERSION: ALL
     SUPERSEDES: 05JUN92

        SYMPTOM: User needs to manually install DR Multiuser DOS

SOLUTION
Note: x: is considered to be the bootable drive.

Only DR Multiuser DOS on partition

1.   Prepare the hard disk with FDISK, creating at least a 5MB
active bootable partition. 

2.   Format the bootable partition with a (FORMAT x: /s). This will
require booting from the DR Multiuser DOS disk 1 and exiting to
DOS. 

3.   Make a directory on the bootable partition of \OSUTILS 
     (MD \OSUTILS) and copy all the files from the root directories
(COPY A:*.* x:\OSUTILS) of the installation disks into this
directory.

4.   Rename INSTALL.EXE in the \OSUTILS directory to SETUP.EXE. See
section on "Creating Necessary Files."

Multiple Operating Systems on partition

Make sure the bootable partition on the hard disk has at least 5MB
of available space. 

1.   Make a directory on the bootable partition of \OSUTILS 
     (MD \OSUTILS). 

2.   Copy all the files from the root directories (COPY A:*.*
x:\OSUTILS) of the installation disks into this directory. After
copying all the files to the hard drive, rename INSTALL.EXE in the
\OSUTILS directory to SETUP.EXE. 

3.   Remove the attributes to IBMDOS.COM (ATTRIB -R IBMDOS.COM)

4.   Copy IBMDOS.COM on the installation diskettes to DRMDOS.SYS on
the bootable partition(COPY A:IBMDOS.COM x:\DRMDOS.SYS).
5.   Change the attributes of IBMDOS.COM (ATTRIB A:\IBMDOS.COM 
     -RSH).

6.   Copy LOADER.COM from the \OSUTILS directory on the hard drive
to the ROOT directory (COPY \OSUTILS\LOADER.COM \LOADER.COM). 

7.   Run LOADER.COM to initialize the drive for Multiple O/S
booting. See section on "Creating Necessary Files."

Creating Necessary Files

Add the following lines to the beginning of the AUTOEXEC.BAT:

If "%OS%"=="DRMDOS" goto DRMDOS   ;     To determine the operating
system.
GOTO SKIP                         ;     Placed at the end of your
existing O/S
                                        commands.
:DRMDOS                           ;     A label
SET TEMP=x:\OSUTILS\TMP
PATH x:\OSUTILS;
APPEND x:\OSUTILS
SUSPEND = OFF
PROMPT %CONSOLE% $P$G
EXIT
:SKIP

These lines are necessary for Multiuser and will not be created by
running SETUP. The original AUTOEXEC.BAT should continue after the
label ":SKIP". After adding the necessary lines to the AUTOEXEC.BAT
and rebooting run SETUP to configure your system parameters. It may
be necessary to copy files from the subdirectories on the
installation diskettes for drivers or batch files for specific
applications.
