Re: how to make a boot disk

[petscii@aol.com (PetScii)]

>My question is: I have a Pentium running Win95 as my main system right

>How do I make a
>boot/install disk for these older machines????  
>
>


the long and the short of it is:

-->You Can't<--

The PC and the Apple ][ line use a fundamentally different method of storing
the information on a floppy, and therefore, a direct reformat can't be done.

The only feasable thing to do is to use a program that allows you to copy a
file to a Apple via a super serial card or whatever, but you need to have an OS
loaded in order to access the floppy drive in order to save the data you get.

The only real way to do it is to get someone with a real machine to copy the
disk for you. Dos 3.3, Prodos and Pascal are so hopelessly out of date that I
really can't see Apple caring about people copying their operating systems.

(Actually, a copy of Dos 3.3 is on every disk you INITalize and give to a
friend, so I wonder if that counts as piracy? :) )

A side point: I used to think that you had to type INITALIZE to format a disk
under dos 3.3, and it was only later that I realized that I was formatting a
disk with a boot program called "ALIZE" :)

--Rick Miller N1ZXZ <petscii@spamblock.techie.com>
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