24 May
2000
24 May
'00
7:48 p.m.
I know what you mean. I've made the shift from DOS 6.20 to 6.22 a couple of
itmes. What, by the way, is DOS 6.3?
If your motherboad is modern enough, it should support bootable CD's, but I
don't know what the appropriate spec for a bootable CD would be. I do
recall that ISO9660 or whatever it was is NOT the right format. IIRC, it
had a name that sounded like it belonged on the Taco Bell menu. I got out
of the fray when I quit beta-testing Adaptec's software, which I did with
the release of their first "easy-cd-creator" vesrion. This thin claimed to
do things it didn't because it couldn't, but the managers said it would . .
. <sigh> . . .
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: Chuck McManis <cmcmanis(a)mcmanis.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2000 6:45 PM
Subject: Bootable Floppy from CD?
In an effort to preserve all my miscellaneous driver
floppies I've been
copying them to CD-rom. I figured I should also do this for my DOS 6.3
disks but realized that I don't know how to create a bootable DOS 6.3
system disk from the disk itself. I've considered using dd(1) on unix to
create just the disk image that I can later use dd to copy back out but
was wondering if perhaps there was a better way.
--Chuck