Hello Jame,

    Responding to a post in the ALT_DOS area:
    On Tuesday April 06 2004 at 06:12,
    Jame Clay [1:120/546] wrote to Gerald Miller,
    about: .IMG extension

 >> Here is your problem!  The example _should_ read:
 >> DISKCOPY TEST.IMG A:

 >>  This type of image file is for creating disk files to be
 >> recognizable by a specific operating system -- DR-DOS v7.02!

 JC>    Is that built in to any other versions of the diskcopy command, do
 JC> you know? I'm more used to useing rawrite.exe for copying images like
 JC> that...

Ohhh, you want to get "technical" beyond my understanding....  

The diskcopy command is used to copy each sector of a file to a diskette.
This is most useful if you are running one operating system (MS-DOS v6.22,
for example) and you want to create a bootable system disk to do an install
for another operating system, such as DR-DOS v7.02 for example.  (Win98
uses a similar technique for its installation.)

Using any version of diskcopy (as far as I know) will permit you to copy
the System files (IO.SYS, MSDOS.SYS, PCDOS.SYS, etc., -- files with Hidden,
Readonly, System attributes) to the proper tracks in order for the diskette
to be bootable.

I am unfamiliar with RAWRITE.EXE, so I cannot verify your technique of it's
use.  I just now did a web search for rawrite and I suspect that your use
of it in this manner would work and I also found a number of other programs
that would accomplish the same task.

I have to presume that the example "DISKCOPY TEST.IMG A:" was provided
because _most_ operating systems have a diskcopy command.  The bottom line
would be: use whatever command that works for you to create the System
disk(s)....

           Cheers ... Gerald

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