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From: smvorkoetter@watmum.UUCP (Stefan M. Vorkoetter)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: PC ROM copying
Message-ID: <570@watmum.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 8-Aug-86 16:38:21 EDT
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If you prepare your hard disk as if you were going to boot from it, and then
create a boot floppy with these two files on it (in addition to command.com
and the system files), you should be able to boot from your hard disk after
booting from the floppy.

Files:				Contents:
	AUTOEXEC.BAT			command c:command.com /p
	CONFIG.SYS			whatever you want to put in it

Then, you boot with this floppy.  It makes the copy of command.com on c:
the default one.  The /p means to overwrite the existing copy, so you don't
have two of them in memory.  You will lose about 3K of RAM however.

I use a similar technique to boot from a RAM disk, except that my autoexec
first copies the parts of DOS that I want (including command.com) to the
RAM disk, and then "boots" from the RAM disk.