Re: CP/M + (3.0) disk images posted to the web

[Christian Groessler <cpg@aladdin.de>]

"Joel" <joelbuckley54.nospam.@hotmail.com> writes:

> The old Microsoft CP/M ver 2.23 used FORMAT to format a disk and COPY /s to
> make it a bootable or system disk.
> Just looking at the version 3 disks on an emulator, it would appear neither
> of these files appear.
> The 2009306A.DSK is a boot disk, so you could just copy that disk (with a
> 5.25 disk copy program) and delete the files you don't need.
> From the source file PUTSYS.MAC, it would appear this is the program to put
> down boot tracks on a disk.
> Just from the filenames, I suspect other files (maybe BOOTLDR.COM, CPM3.SYS,
> CPMLDR.COM) may be needed as well.

I have a working boot disk. I'm searching for a way to initialize a
disk, which is still unformatted, to be used with CP/M from within
CP/M.

regards,
chris