On Sun, 2 Jun 2002 17:01:41 -0400, Roger Turk wrote: > Am I wrong in my understanding of DOS that the files needed to create a boot > disk (MSDOS\PCDOS, IO.SYS/IBMIO.SYS, COMMAND.COM) are *always* files on the > DOS disk, but, except for COMMAND.COM, are hidden/system files? Could you > not create a boot disk by copying these files (removing the hidden/system > attributes first) to the root directory of a particular logical drive on your > HD, going to that root directory, and doing a SYS a:?
You are right, except that the system files have different names depending on DOS version. Also the system files for all versions of DOS that I have ever seen are *always* hidden/system files. If you boot to C: and then do a SYS a: from the root directory of C:, the operating system files will be transferred to A:. If the operating system files appropriate to the DOS version you booted to on drive C: are no longer found you will just get an error message. Sam Heywood -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/
