On 13 February 2014 19:15, David Riley <fraveydank at gmail.com> wrote:
As far as I know, the Win9x "make a boot
floppy" is essentially just
a "format /s".
No, it isn't.
A Win9x boot floppy contains a menu-driven CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT
files, allowing loading with CD drivers, creates a RAM disk and
unpacks a CAB file full of useful commands for emergency system
recovery to that RAM disk and more.
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