Re: DOS3.3 questions

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <59f4pb$2uc@news.ysu.edu>,
Adalbert Goertz <be404@yfn.ysu.edu> wrote:
>What file is required to make DOS booting possible?

   No file, just a DOS 3.3 (or patchup like ProntoDOS, David-DOS, etc)
on tracks 0-2. Since not everyone wanted to give up the 12K for DOS,
some disk formatters have the option of not writing a valid DOS 3.3
boot and instead only write down a mini boot sector that puts up a
message.

   Copy ][+ does have the option of copying the DOS 3.3 tracks off a
valid boot disk, *BUT* some disks formatted without DOS have files
stored in those tracks. Make a backup, or otherwise verify for
yourself that there are no files in tracks 0-2, as they will be
overwritten by the DOS copying.

Nathan Mates
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