This wasn't as straightforward as I hoped it would be. The first two
methods I tried (the HP approch and the KD4D method) didn't seem to give
me something that would work 100 percent.
I ended up using this process:
http://www.weethet.nl/english/hardware_bootfromusbstick.php
but only up to a point. After I had copied the boot sector to the USB
stick, I didn't have the IO.SYS and MSDOS.SYS or COMMAND.COM files on
the thumbdrive. I knew that the IO.SYS had to be the first file on the
drive, or things wouldn't work right. So I copied IO.SYS, then MSDOS.SYS
and then COMMAND.COM (in that order - one at a time) to the USB stick
from my DOS boot disk and then things seemed to be working okay.
Perhaps we should start distributing TR Log on USB bootable sticks?
Tree
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