12 Apr
2004
12 Apr
'04
4:21 a.m.
Starting with unformatted disks, doing what you are doing didn't work
for me either. I found though that by formating "/s" with whatever
system (haven't tried it with post win95 OSs) and deleting all the
system files, your step 3 and on worked just fine. I'm assuming the boot
sector gets something put in it, but I'll be interested to hear if
someone actually knows what is going on :).
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.