Making foreign DOS boot floppies (IBM).

From: Marvin Johnston <marvin_at_rain.org>
Date: Mon Apr 12 11:21:12 2004

Starting with unformatted disks, doing what you are doing didn't work
for me either. I found though that by formating "/s" with whatever
system (haven't tried it with post win95 OSs) and deleting all the
system files, your step 3 and on worked just fine. I'm assuming the boot
sector gets something put in it, but I'll be interested to hear if
someone actually knows what is going on :).


John Allain wrote:
>
> Up to now the way I've made bootable floppies of any necessary DOS
> version by shutting down my master system, rebooting to the appropriate
> floppy, format/s, copy, then reboot the master system to disk, which
> works but is pretty time consuming.
>
> What I'd like to do is all of this with the master running the normal
> higher-version O/S. I've gotten this far:
>
> Step one seems to be generic: format command.
> Step two is ?
> Step three is to copy IO.SYS, MSDOS.SYS
> Step four is to mark IO.SYS, MSDOS.SYS with attrib as
> System, Hidden, and Read-Only.
> Step five: copy COMMAND.COM,CONFIG.SYS,AUTOEXEC.BAT
> and then the rest of DOS.
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