12 Apr
2004
12 Apr
'04
5:04 a.m.
On Monday 12 April 2004 11:55, Patrick wrote:
And, with SYS, you can tell it what "drive" to pull the system files
from, so you could stick them on another hard drive in the machine and
do SYS D: A:, and should end up with the version of them from drive D:.
You might (probably can) be able to get that to work with copying older
DOS versions.
Pat
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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