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dos boot disk for my friend's 486er

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Name: ratty
Date: November 25, 1998 at 13:34:55 Pacific
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eye knead a b00t disk for this old 486er, it's running some old version of dos, brobably 5? maybe 6
help me out? i only have like dos 7 stuff on my win95 puter



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Name: Igor M
Date: November 26, 1998 at 00:04:52 Pacific
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Hi,

If your 486 still works you can make boot disk by typing

SYS A:

or

FORMAT A: /S

at the command prompt.

If a DOS on your 486 is corrupted and you cant boot from hard drive you can make boot disk on your Win95 computer. It will work with 486.

Good luck, Igor M


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