On Feb 14, 2014, at 4:53 PM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
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.
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.
Odd. I can't remember ever having seen that. Perhaps we're talking
about different things? I meant what you get when you tell Windows
to initialize a floppy and make it bootable. I have no idea how to
make what you're talking about, though it sounds quite useful.
That's neither here nor there, though; I'm about as fond of this
discussion on this list as a lot of others seem to be (there are so
many fora for discussing Windows, vintage or otherwise, that it
seems redundant to have a long, involved discussion of it here).
- Dave