Bootable Floppy from CD?

From: Richard Erlacher <richard_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Wed May 24 19:48:03 2000

I know what you mean. I've made the shift from DOS 6.20 to 6.22 a couple of
itmes. What, by the way, is DOS 6.3?

If your motherboad is modern enough, it should support bootable CD's, but I
don't know what the appropriate spec for a bootable CD would be. I do
recall that ISO9660 or whatever it was is NOT the right format. IIRC, it
had a name that sounded like it belonged on the Taco Bell menu. I got out
of the fray when I quit beta-testing Adaptec's software, which I did with
the release of their first "easy-cd-creator" vesrion. This thin claimed to
do things it didn't because it couldn't, but the managers said it would . .
. <sigh> . . .

Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: Chuck McManis <cmcmanis_at_mcmanis.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2000 6:45 PM
Subject: Bootable Floppy from CD?


> In an effort to preserve all my miscellaneous driver floppies I've been
> copying them to CD-rom. I figured I should also do this for my DOS 6.3
> disks but realized that I don't know how to create a bootable DOS 6.3
> system disk from the disk itself. I've considered using dd(1) on unix to
> create just the disk image that I can later use dd to copy back out but
> was wondering if perhaps there was a better way.
>
> --Chuck
>
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