Bootable Floppy from CD?

From: Eric J. Korpela <korpela_at_albert.ssl.berkeley.edu>
Date: Thu May 25 10:43:49 2000

> 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.

Using dd or the equivalent is probably the best way. I generally zip
the floppy contents (with appropriate flags to preserve hidden and system
files and the volume label) and create a dd image if the disk is bootable.

Eric
Received on Thu May 25 2000 - 10:43:49 BST