16 Feb
2014
16 Feb
'14
5:56 p.m.
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.