manually installing MSDOS...

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Roy J. Tellason wrote:
> DOS needs three files to boot,  command.com,  io.sys,  and msdos.sys.  Those 
> last two are given different names if we're talking about IBM's version.  In 
> earlier versions of dos they needed to be the first files on the drive,  but 
> I think that this requirement went  away at some point,  though I couldn't 
> say for sure when that happened.

Instead of io.sys and msdos.sys, PC-DOS has ibmbio.com and ibmdos.com.

Peace...  Sridhar