12 Apr
2004
12 Apr
'04
4:55 a.m.
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.
Isn't this what the SYS.COM utility is supposed to do? FORMAT A: /S ==
FORMAT A: + SYS A: ? --Patrick