Re: When can you SYS a disk not originally formatted with /S?

Article View: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc

Article #9686

Back to comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Previous Next

#9686

From: Demian A. Johnston
Date: Sat, 04 May 1991 01:44

4 lines
748 bytes

When the first set of sectors on the disk are empty.  The Bootstrap
MSDOS.SYS  (IBMDOS.COM) IO.SYS (IBMBIO.COM) need to be the first items
on the disk.
Demian J.    =======>     dj1l+@andrew.cmu.edu

Technical Details

Message-ID: <Ec8V7vK00awO06V0ZW@andrew.cmu.edu>

Path:

arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!udel!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!o.gp.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!dj1l+

References: <1991May3.191723.24131@midway.uchicago.edu>

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!udel!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!o.gp.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!dj1l+
From: dj1l+@andrew.cmu.edu (Demian A. Johnston)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: When can you SYS a disk not originally formatted with /S?
Message-ID: <Ec8V7vK00awO06V0ZW@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: 4 May 91 01:44:27 GMT
References: <1991May3.191723.24131@midway.uchicago.edu>
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Lines: 4
In-Reply-To: <1991May3.191723.24131@midway.uchicago.edu>

Reply to Parent Message