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:?
Roger Turk Tucson, Arizona Glenn McCorkle wrote: ---------------Begin Quote---------------- On Sat, 01 Jun 2002 08:15:00 -0500, Sam Ewalt wrote: > On Sat, 01 Jun 2002 01:29:19 +0000, Thomas Tabler wrote: >> Thanks for all your help. I checked my friend's computer and he >> just has an upgraded, partial install of MS-DOS 6.20. No bootdisks >> or install files. Also, he has an old 1.2M drive he could POSSIBLY >> move the DOS 3.3 files too, but I still have to find them. On the >> web I found NOTHING about downloadable DOS versions that were not >> for a commercial purpose or weren't just boot disks. I can try again >> using DOSlynx or IE3 but I doubt it extremely. Good luck to those >> trying to find low-cost alternative DOSes. Very little info on cost >> is available except by e-mail or in-depth web search. Hopefully I can >> get something that's workable for low cost. > How about free? http://www.freedos.org Next best thing to 100% free..... free for noncommercial use. ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/devsup/drdos/ The `full versions' are there of OpenDos v7.01, Dr-Dos v7.02 and v7.03 -- Glenn ---------------------End Quote--------------
