Making foreign DOS boot floppies (IBM).

From: Patrick <patrick_at_VintageComputerMarketplace.com>
Date: Mon Apr 12 11:55:23 2004

> 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.

Isn't this what the SYS.COM utility is supposed to do? FORMAT A: /S ==
FORMAT A: + SYS A: ? --Patrick
Received on Mon Apr 12 2004 - 11:55:23 BST