Q111062: Flight Simulator 5.0 Setup Cannot Copy SETUP.EXE

Article: Q111062
Product(s): Microsoft Home Games
Version(s): MS-DOS:5.0
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Last Modified: 07-MAY-2002

kbsetup

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft Flight Simulator for MS-DOS, version 5.0 
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SYMPTOMS
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When you install Flight Simulator, after using the FSSYSTEM.EXE program to
create a startup disk, Setup may quit and display the following error message:

  Cannot copy SETUP.EXE.

RESOLUTION
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This problem occurs on machines that do not have a COMMAND.COM file in the
MS-DOS directory.

To correct this problem, copy COMMAND.COM from the startup disk (or from the root
of your hard disk drive) to your <drive>:\<DOS> directory, where
<drive> is your hard disk drive and <DOS> is your MS-DOS directory.
For example, if your hard disk drive is drive C and your MS-DOS directory is
DOS, copy COMMAND.COM to C:\DOS.

MORE INFORMATION
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When the FSSYSTEM.EXE program creates a startup disk, it sets the path in the
AUTOEXEC.BAT to the following:

  path A:\;C:\DOS

If you remove the startup disk from drive A after starting your machine, and if
COMMAND.COM is not present in the C:\DOS directory, the Setup program cannot
find COMMAND.COM. If Setup cannot find COMMAND.COM, it quits.

Additional query words: 5.00 flightsim fltsim dos FS5 abort exit stop

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Keywords          :  
Technology        : kbGamesSearch kbFlightSimSearch kbFlightSim500DOS kbSimSearch
Version           : MS-DOS:5.0
Issue type        : kbprb

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