On 17 February 2014 01:56, Ken Seefried <seefriek at gmail.com> wrote:
From: Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com>
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.
Yes it is.
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.
None of which is required to create a boot disk. I say this as someone who
routinely does it, not as someone who Googled up a MS knowledgebase article
and didn't understand that it was about creating a startup disk, not a
simple boot disk.
Don't bother trying to correct me when you have not understood what I
am talking about.
Go back to the start of the thread and reread it.
Hint:
* Q: I have a Win95 CD but it won't boot
* A: It's not bootable; you need a bootable FD with CD drivers; get
one on site X
* A: There is an image of a bootable FD with drivers on the CD
* A: Ah, well, since Win9x can make such a disk, that makes sense.
* Q: How can Win9x could make such a disk?
* A: here is a web reference
* A: You don't know how to make a bootable floppy, this is how you do
it, you are a fool and wrong
That last is you and it would appear that you do not know what we are
actually talking about here.
You do not understand th
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