Installing the 0.9 beta (in 2010)

I have this old install CD, so I used it. Actually, there is more to it than that. I have an important old FreeDOS install, done with 0.9 that will no longer boot. I want to rescue that system, then maybe I will move on to FreeDOS 1.0 This was on a Pentium 166 system with 8M of RAM, a CDROM, and a MAXTOR 1.6G disk. This motherboard will boot the CDROM, I hit "1" to boot from CDROM, then make the selection to run FreeDOS from the CDROM. This allows me to run fdisk and delete all the partitions on the old disk I am using and create one big FAT16 partition to use the whole disk. After this I must reboot.

After rebooting, I repeat the above process to run FreeDOS from the CDROM, then run "format C:", then reboot again (this was not actually needed, but I wasn't that smart at the time.)

Now I select the "install FreeDOS" option, and hit return or Esc to get through the various screens. Ultimately I reach a dialog asking me where it wants me to copy files, and I find that I must give it the target explicitly, namely C:\ and away things go. When the install finishes, it coaches me to give the command: 

BOOT
Which I do to write the boot sector and whatever else, and it tells me I am ready to reboot and run FreeDOS! This seems to work just fine, so on to other things. Namely I want to attach a second hard drive and move some files from it. Also, it would be really great to get a network connection of some kind set up.
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