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In article <911000171snz@longley.demon.co.uk>, David Longley
<David@longley.demon.co.uk> writes
>What's the easiest way (other than finding a bootable 1.2MB disk) 
>to get DOS 6.21 onto a hard disk (running 5), if the boot disk is 
>only a 1.2MB and the 3.5" can't be switched?
>
>Is  there something I can run from a non bootable floppy  to  get 
>the  critical  files onto teh hard disk? The system is  networked 
>so I can get the rest of the files from over the net.

The easiest way is to make a single network startup disk with network
client administrator in NT4 server at 'home' (if your network cards are
supported, otherwise its a little tricky (I have done it, though). 
Slightly alter its autoexec.bat so it doesn't download anything it wants
to <g> & copy anything you want using net use. You'll probably need to
alter its system.ini depending on the network you've got set up. 

If you've got a 1.2mb floppy drive (at home) with 6.2*1* ? on the hd,
why can't you simply format it /u /s?
Otherwise if you format the floppy elsewhere /u, you can simply add the
right files io.sys msdos.sys and command com (in that order) to the
floppy (making it bootable) & sys.com, then sys the drive from the
floppy. Rest depends on networking you've set up
-- 
John Chapple