Hello Garry... and everyone else who made suggestions on this request for info...
Just copying files onto a /sys boot disk does not work. The disk is then bootable, but it just leaves you at a command prompt, instead of placing a special file in the boot sector that will initiate the new OS setup... none of the NT Server 3.5 setup files would run, from the DOS command prompt. Garry, COPYQM.EXE worked super!... a great addition to my growing pile of toolz... thanks. I had both the 5.25" and 3.5" drives on the same computer, but I noticed a very curious anomaly, after I had made my 3.5" copy, worth remembering... This was my old DOS 6.0 IBM 486 machine. Copyqm was able to do the image fine, but when I checked the 3.5" disk with a 'dir', it came back 'File not found'... DOS could not recognise the imaged files. I was skeptical, so I walked the disk over to my newer PIII machine, with Win98se and DOS 7, and it was able to read the disk, without any problem. My guess... DOS 6 can't read NTFS, but apparently *can* read whatever is placed in the boot sector, well enough to run NT install. To everyone else... I never got to trying the various suggestions, because Garry's worked first, but I archived the emails, and will check out some of the stuff later, when time permits. Thanks again! -wittig http://www.robertwittig.com/ -weblog http://radio.weblogs.com/0128450/ A business is as honest as its advertising. . Tuesday, August 12, 2003, 7:13:06 PM, you wrote: GH> ... or ... plan "B" ... GH> In a system where you have just the 5.25 drive and no 3.5 drive GH> but you can connect both to the internet: GH> Connect to FTP server tmonroe.com GH> user "public" GH> password "public" GH> download the file "pm4disk.zip" GH> extract from this zip file something called COPYQM.EXE GH> (the rest of the zip would be used if you wanted to GH> make a Partition Magic 4.0 DOS boot disk) GH> using COPYQM create an image of the bootable 5.25 disk GH> take this image to the box with the 3.5 disk and ... GH> using COPYQM burn the image to a floppy. GH> COPYQM has help for how to move images from one format to another. GH> It will run as a DOS process under Win 3.1/95/98, but it's best GH> to run it in DOS mode. GH> Variations on this theme would be to download the pm4disk.zip GH> and create an image of the 5.25 bootable disk, burn it to a CD, GH> then fetch it from the CD onto the box with the 3.5 drive, or GH> do the same with a ZIP disk, and so on. GH> If your configuration doesn't match any of these details, just GH> holler and we'll figure something out for you. GH> Regards, GH> Garry Hamilton GH> [EMAIL PROTECTED] GH> ----- Original Message ----- GH> From: "Robert C Wittig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GH> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GH> Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 12:43 PM GH> Subject: [SURVPC] copy bootable disk, 5.25 to 3.5 >> I have an old operating system on 5.25" floppies that I want to >> install on a PC that doesn't have a 5.25" drive, or a bay to install >> one. >> >> Is there any way I can transfer the files to a 3.5" diskette on the >> first (bootable) floppy, so that the 3.5" diskette with be bootable? >> >> Thanks in advance, for any suggestions. >> >> -wittig http://www.robertwittig.com/ >> -weblog http://radio.weblogs.com/0128450/ >> A business is as honest as its advertising. >> . >> GH> To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with GH> unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. GH> Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. GH> More info can be found at; GH> http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html --------------------------- 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
