On Fri, 7 Oct 2011, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
It depends. On MS-DOS, isn't it the case that a
single-sided drive will
happily read any data that is on the first side of a disk? So couldn't
you boot from a double-sided boot disk if this is the case, and also iff
all of the data used in the bootstrap is on the first side?
sectors V files
perhaps an example of data V information
On MS-DOS, you can NOT boot from a double sided bootdisk in a single sided
drive.