Re: How to make a DOS 3.3 system disk?

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

In article <2t7dqq$njb@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>,
Adam Douglas Barr <dz854@cleveland.Freenet.Edu> wrote:
>
>How do you make a bootable DOS 3.3 disk? Please email.

Starting from where?  Assuming you already have a bootable DOS 3.3
disk, you get into BASIC, then insert a blank disk and type

INIT HELLO

This will initialize the disk, put DOS 3.3 on it, set the startup file
name to HELLO and save the Applesoft BASIC program in memory as HELLO.
If you type NEW first, then an empty program is saved, which you can
delete.

If you don't have a DOS 3.3 disk, you're out of luck.


One special case springs to mind: Copy II+ will initialize DOS 3.3
disks, but it doesn't put DOS 3.3 onto them.  It sets up the boot
sector with a small program that says "this disk isn't bootable", or
something like that.  If you have done this, then you can use the
COPY, DOS command in Copy II+ to copy DOS 3.3 from another disk onto
the newly formatted disk.  You still need a DOS 3.3 disk in order to
do this.
-- 
David Empson
dempson@actrix.gen.nz
Snail mail: P.O. Box 27-103, Wellington, New Zealand