[svlug] Aaaaaaaarrrrrggggggg!

Marc MERLIN marc_news at merlins.org
Tue Aug 13 22:10:40 PDT 2002


On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 09:48:23PM -0700, svlug at gory.org wrote:
> Now I just can't figure out how to make a friggin bootable dos floppy so
> I can the bizatch updated.  The only windows machines I have are win2k
> and XP vmware installs and I guess after 98, M$ disabled the '/s' option
> for format.

I have some faint memory that the windows floppy format GUI has some option
to make the floppy bootable.
You may want to try that.

Marc
(I still keep dos 3.1, 6.0, and 7.0 boot floppies around for that exact
reason)
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