Creating A Dos Boot Disk Manually

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Posted by Xavier on Oct-15-2003 10:20:

Creating A Dos Boot Disk Manually

I'm making my own customized boot disk, and i have made a menu by making a batch file, and loaded mouse & cdrom through the autoexec.bat file.

I wanna know how to execute the autoexec.bat properly when the disk is in the floppy drive when my computer starts up.

Posted by Dr. Cfire on Oct-15-2003 14:33:

Um Im not sure what you mean by that.

The autoexec.bat file will be run during the OS boot phase that is the point of the file. thats why its called automatic executable.

Do you mean you want to run your batch file from the autoexec? then you would just add the the line

*batch file location**batch file name*
to your autoexec file.

Posted by AndiH on Oct-15-2003 15:58:

I assume you made a disk but it doesn't do anything when the computer starts up?

If you have ms-dos or a dos box type copy the files you already created on the floppy disk to your hd and type in

code:
format a: /s

This will delete all files off the disk in drive a: and create the following files:
Command.com
Drvspace.bin
Io.sys
Msdos.sys

Alternatively you can right-click on the floppy disk icon in windows and select format, then format (not quickformat) and check the box which says "copy system files" (or something similar).

Now you can copy your homemade autoexec.bat (and config.sys and the drivers) back to the floppy disk.

Posted by reciprocalspace on Nov-11-2003 03:27:

boot disk

http://www.bootdisk.com/

lots of boot disks here

Posted by itsTrueSonic on Nov-14-2003 03:51:

also, please check your BIOS setup and see if your boot goes to the A: (or what your floppy drive is). if compaq, F8 or F9, not sure .. for homemade motherboards, i believe it is F1.