On Wed, 13 Dec 2000 21:22:17 +0500, azazello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear List! > This is again my question about > I asked: >> My PC has no any floppies. And it boots dos7 (win95). I'd like >> to boot something else. Say, msdos6, drdos, etc... Is there any >> version of DOS which is able to rewrite boot sector without >> bootable floppy? I know that such a trick may be done with >> PTS-DOS but I do not like it (too lazy to learn their >> config.sys and autoexec.bat files format and it is evaluation - >> delaying several seconds before boot). > Bob answered: >> Oops - I let "boot sector" throw me off. I'll assume your hard >> drive is C: for this example; if not, just substitute proper >> drive letter. >> c: >> cd \drdos >> sys c: > After such a command I got the replay of system: > SYS is not supported under this Operating System > Then I tried the same command after "Lock" command and I got the > same replay. >> It's very important that you use the "sys" from the drdos >> directory. > this term is fulfilled >> That should be it. You might want to fdisk /m (it might be >> fdisk /mbr in drdos) at some point, though it's not absolutely >> necessary. > I tried this command too. It was done without probs. But after > reboot I still have dos7. > Thank you again Bob! For what, heh? (in other words, quite welcome =) Start fdisk. Choose to view partitions. Make sure the partition we're talking about is some form of FAT16 and _not_ FAT32. I assume you have an install set for DR-DOS. If I'm right, run install and choose the "make a bootable disk" option. Make sure that "sys" gets copied to it. Boot from that floppy and "sys c:". > Any more ideas about making disk bootable in os other than dos7? I really hesitate to mention this: Find LILO, the linux boot loader. RTFM. The boot loader that comes with Minix could be of help, too, but I'm not familiar enough with it to tell you anything. Bob Starts April 1, 2001 -- Arachne V1.69, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/ To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
