Making foreign DOS boot floppies (IBM).

From: Patrick <patrick_at_VintageComputerMarketplace.com>
Date: Mon Apr 12 12:07:36 2004

> Isn't this what the SYS.COM utility is supposed to do? FORMAT A: /S ==
> FORMAT A: + SYS A: ? --Patrick

Duh. Ignore this--wrong path. I see what you are trying to do, John.
(More caffeine please.)

My approach to this is to make base bootable floppies in the same (slow) way
in which you did (reboot to bootable partition or floppy with the target
version). Then, using whatever tools you like (dd, teledisk, fdimage,
copyflop, etc), make an image of the bootable disk and stow it away. When
you want a bootable disk in that flavor, create it from the image, and then
copy whatever additional files you need. Using dd on *nix is particularly
handy, because you can archive all kinds of formats--I use it for boot disks
for 3Com terminal servers, an old voicemail system, etc. --Patrick
Received on Mon Apr 12 2004 - 12:07:36 BST