Bootable Floppy from CD?

From: Roger Merchberger <zmerch_at_30below.com>
Date: Wed May 24 20:21:03 2000

Rumor has it that Richard Erlacher may have mentioned these words:
>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?

IBM marketed a PC-DOS 6.3 with Stacker and some other stuff, IIRC.

Personally, for the boot stuff, I'd just stick to a boot floppy... boot the
computer from your PC-DOS disk 1, and if it goes into a setup routine, hit
<F3> (well, for MS-DOS... not sure if it's different with IBM's stuff) and
when you get to the dos prompt, if you have two floppies, put a floppy in
your B: and do a:

format b: /s (to put the system on.)

If you don't have 2 floppies, issue that command anyway. With a 1 floppy
system, you have a *virtual* B: and the system will automatically ask you
for source and destination disks when it wants you to swap them.

HTH,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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Received on Wed May 24 2000 - 20:21:03 BST

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