On Monday 12 April 2004 11:55, Patrick wrote:
> > 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
And, with SYS, you can tell it what "drive" to pull the system files
from, so you could stick them on another hard drive in the machine and
do SYS D: A:, and should end up with the version of them from drive D:.
You might (probably can) be able to get that to work with copying older
DOS versions.
Pat
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