Making foreign DOS boot floppies (IBM).

From: John Allain <allain_at_panix.com>
Date: Tue Apr 13 14:57:27 2004

I should be doing my taxes right now so TIA: "Thanks, Fred"

Quick notes:
   Diskcopy sounds almost useful, thx.
   Debug dangerous? I had a similar mishap yesterday while
      trying to find the command with the undocumented /mbr switch
      (sub-problem: mbrs are only for HD's). Surprise, surprise, the
      MasterBootRecord action is unprompting! There is no "Would
      you like to fry your HardDrive? [y/n]" question, just the direct
      action. Luckily my NortonAV caught it. Oddly the system wouldn't
      warmboot afterwards. So, after getting all the pieces together for
      a system re-build, including second harddrive, letting my blood
      pressure go down, and cold booting, the problem was just smoke,
      thankfully.

   I'm doing all this to get a nice NEC laptop going.
   Will probably get back to that in 3 days.

John A.
Received on Tue Apr 13 2004 - 14:57:27 BST