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Installing on MS-DOS Systems from CD

All MS-DOS releases of the GNUPro Toolkit can use the following installation procedure from CD. For more detail on the installation procedure, see Installation on MS-DOS Systems. We ship GNUPro Toolkit on CD with the complete INSTALL program.

1.
Insert CD into CD-ROM drive (the following example shows a drive designated as ‘A:’) and type the following.

A:\INSTALL

2.
INSTALL prompts for an installation directory; the default is ‘C:\CYGNUS’. The tools may be installed anywhere. (If you are installing more than one GNUPro Toolkit, see MS-DOS Installation Directories.) Make sure the installation directory is correct and press Enter.

3.
INSTALL checks the installation location to make sure it has enough space before unpacking the tools. Installed GNUPro Toolkit disk usage varies from about 10 to about 30 megabytes, depending on the target. See Disk space requirements for MS-DOS for the required disk space.

4.
INSTALL reads the CD.

5.
When finished, press Enter to exit the INSTALL program.

6.
To run the programs, type ‘installdir\SETENV’ to set up your working environment. (installdir\demo is the installation directory you specified, ‘C:\CYGNUS’ by default.)

C:\> cd C:\CYGNUS
C:\CYGNUS\> SETENV
...

7.
To test the installation, change your working directory to the ‘installdir’ subdirectory, as in the following example, and type ‘MAKE’.

C:\CYGNUS\> cd C:\CYGNUS\DEMO
C:\CYGNUS\demo> MAKE
...

8.
It is often easiest to set your working environment in the initialization file ‘AUTOEXEC.BAT’. If you installed in the default, ‘C:\CYGNUS’, add the following line to your ‘AUTOEXEC.BAT’.

CALL C:\CYGNUS\SETENV.BAT

For more information on DOS and Win95/NT systems, see the following discussions.

- Installation on MS-DOS Systems
- MS-DOS installation directories
- Disk space requirements for MS-DOS
- MS-DOS memory requirements
- Release contents of GNUPro Toolkit for MS-DOS