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From: alan@ukpoit.co.uk (Alan Barclay)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: When can you SYS a disk not originally formatted with /S?
Message-ID: <1991May7.151012.21608@ukpoit.co.uk>
Date: 7 May 91 15:10:12 GMT
References: <1991May3.191723.24131@midway.uchicago.edu> <Ec8V7vK00awO06V0ZW@andrew.cmu.edu> <91123.230837JXS118@psuvm.psu.edu>
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In article <91123.230837JXS118@psuvm.psu.edu> JXS118@psuvm.psu.edu (Jeff Siegel) writes:
>
>2) The first two directory entries on the disk are IBMBIO.COM and IBMDOS.COM,
>in that order.
>
>3) The file IBMBIO.COM is the first file to occupy the data space. The
>clusters of the file must be in order and must be contiguous.
>
>4) The file IBMDOS.COM is on the disk somewhere. Can be anywhere, and doesn't
>have to be contigiuous.
>

This only applies to PC-DOS, and a few versions of MS-DOS*, most MS-DOS use
IO.SYS & MSDOS.SYS instead.

*= NCR's version of MS-DOS for example.


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