I use Ghost to do backups, and prefer the older version that runs under DOS,
booted from a floppy. But (for various reasons) I need "fdisk" and "format"
on it. Ghost, when creating the floppy, uses PC-DOS, but does not add these
commands, and I do not have a PC-DOS version of them. If I use the MS-DOS
versions, which I do have, I get "Incorrect version".
So I want to create a minimum FreeDOS bootable floppy. Ghost is 1,008Kb, add
1Kb each for FDAuto.bat and FDConfig.sys is 1010Kb. Fdisk and Format, on the
bootable FreeDOS install floppy I downloaded, are 38Kb and 32Kb, plus 1Kb if
you need Fdisk.ini, comes to 71Kb, making 1081Kb in all. If 1.44Mb is
1474Kb, that leaves 393Kb.
So what else do I need? Command.com, 66Kb. Kernel.sys, 43Kb, I suppose, but
when I tried creating a disk with just those (from the bootable install
floppy), it didn't boot properly. When I added Metakern.sys, 3Kb, it did but
I got a menu, which seems to be built in somehow, and which I don't really
want.
Do I need to install FreeDOS first somewhere and work with components from
that? I hope not, because I don't really have any spare disk space.
If what I want is too much for a 1.44 floppy, I can boot from a CD. Nero
seems to be willing to create bootable CDs. But I'd rather have a floppy.
I've looked in the archive but couldn't find anything about this.
I'd be grateful for any info.
Regards,
No�l
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