Making foreign DOS boot floppies (IBM).

From: John Allain <allain_at_panix.com>
Date: Mon Apr 12 13:05:28 2004

>> 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

Nice. Looking up SYS.COM in the Ref (v3.3) manual:
"DOS statrup requires {(sic)IBMBIO.COM and IBMDOS.COM}
 to occupy the first two directory entries, and because
 IBMBIO.COM must start at the beginning of the data area of
 the disk." that explains a lot.

But, format/b documentation confusingly mentions
that the floppy is also formattted 8 sectors per track.
Sounds almost wrong -- the capacity doesn't change
for example.

John A.
Received on Mon Apr 12 2004 - 13:05:28 BST