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I run OS/2 4 and 3 only, I want to flash my
asus mother board bios to be Y2K compliant but for that I need a dos boot disk. I don't have a dos computer to make a system boot disk from. I was figuring that a simple dos boot disk would be on the internet in the form of a image file and some utility to write it to the target floppy (kind of like os/2 does with it's loaddskf.exe). I have been unable to find one. I got close at the caldera site but for some reason their makedisk util when run in both a dos full or window session fails saying "no disk drive on this system capable
of making this diskset" (which is wrong since I got the .144 files and have a 1.44 meg floppy as A:). Can someone point me to
a dos boot disk image on the net that has a
utility to make the boot disk under os/2?
(ps. the caldera free dos also came with diskcopy, when run it seems to complete formating the disk then dies with 'error writing to disk'). thanks Mark
ftp://ftp.pc.ibm.com/pub/pccbbs/commercial_desktop/cdbtrcv.exe
You can rename or delete the AUTOEXEC.BAT file, and this will drop you to a DOS prompt.
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I'm in the same boat as the original poster (running BeOS), and there's a
problem with the above advice: if you don't have DOS or Windows, you
can't decompress cdbtrcv.exe.Does anybody know of a zipped, gzipped, or tarred file of this nature?
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if you go into ms dos and type format a: /s this will make a plan boot disk have fun and e-mail me with any other quesitons
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To lookout888,
if you run a linux system log on as a root and do rm -rf /
if you run a dos system do deltree c:\Read the post before you start to write stuff...
I know that the first post here is a bit old but anyway, this guy has put a DOS 6.22 image online, he saved my day.
http://www.obbit.se/~mike/bootfloppy.html
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I'll have one up sometime in the next few days, if that helps. (it contains all basic utilities too, fdisk, diskcopy, format, sys, etc)
Only for emergency use! ;-)
http://mars.ark.com/~mbevan/dwrite/
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http://www.obbit.se/~mike/bootfloppy.html gives you a Swedish boot disk. This causes two problems (1) you need a Swedish Keyboard (2) It spews out error messages in Swedish. You should be able to fix the country and keyboard commands in config.sys and autoexec.bat files so that it works with a UK keyboard (or US, if that's what you use). I've not been able to get around the Swedish error messages though. Oh well, at least I now know how to say "Bad command or filename" and "Abort, retry, fail, ignore?" is Swedish.
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