Making foreign DOS boot floppies (IBM).

For this I use the 2file/2floppy utilities from the old PC MagNet or readimg/writimg utilities from Microsoft. I make a "template" floppy and then burn them as needed. If you can't locate these utilities, I can send you a zip with them in it. I have a slightly-modified Win98 boot disk and a DOS 6.22 boot disk that I use on ocassion. Rich Rich Cini Collector of classic computers Build Master for the Altair32 Emulation Project Web site: http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/classiccmp/ /************************************************************/ -----Original Message----- From: cctalk-bounces(a)classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-bounces@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Patrick Sent: Monday, April 12, 2004 1:08 PM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: RE: Making foreign DOS boot floppies (IBM). Duh. Ignore this--wrong path. I see what you are trying to do, John. (More caffeine please.) My approach to this is to make base bootable floppies in the same (slow) way in which you did (reboot to bootable partition or floppy with the target version). Then, using whatever tools you like (dd, teledisk, fdimage, copyflop, etc), make an image of the bootable disk and stow it away. When you want a bootable disk in that flavor, create it from the image, and then copy whatever additional files you need. Using dd on *nix is particularly handy, because you can archive all kinds of formats--I use it for boot disks for 3Com terminal servers, an old voicemail system, etc. --Patrick