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Disks Created by MS-DOS 6.2 Upgrade and Step-Up Setup /F

Article ID: 105828

Article Last Modified on 11/18/1999

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SUMMARY

With MS-DOS 6.2 Upgrade or MS-DOS 6.2 Step-Up, you can create a single startup floppy disk for drive A by using the /F parameter. The contents of the disk vary based on the destination disk capacity.

NOTE: MS-DOS 6.2 Upgrade and MS-DOS Step-Up do not have the ability to install the complete operating system (with all programs) to floppy disks.

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Floppy Disk Contents for MS-DOS 6.2 Upgrade SETUP /F

When you run MS-DOS 6.2 Upgrade SETUP /F, it creates a bootable floppy disk with the following files: 
                      File
   Filename    Attributes              Disk Size
   -------------------------------------------------------

                               360K/720K      1.2MB/1.44MB
                              (5.25"/3.5")    (5.25"/3.5")

   DBLSPACE.BIN     SHR            X               X
   IO.SYS           SHR            X               X
   MSDOS.SYS        SHR            X               X
   COMMAND.COM        R            X               X
   ATTRIB.EXE      A               X               X
   CHKDSK.EXE      A               X               X
   DEBUG.EXE       A               X               X
   EXPAND.EXE      A               X               X
   FDISK.EXE       A               X               X
   FORMAT.COM      A               X               X
   MEM.EXE         A               X               X
   SYS.COM         A               X               X
   DBLSPACE.EXE    A                               X
   EDIT.COM        A                               X
   MSD.COM         A                               X
   MSD.EXE         A                               X
   QBASIC.EXE      A                               X
   SCANDISK.EXE    A                               X
   UNDELETE.EXE    A                               X
   XCOPY.EXE       A                               X

Floppy Disk Contents for MS-DOS 6.2 Step-Up SETUP /F

When you run MS-DOS 6.2 Step-Up SETUP /F, it creates a bootable floppy disk with the following files: 
                   File
   Filename    Attributes              Disk Size
   -------------------------------------------------------

                               360K/720K      1.2MB/1.44MB
                              (5.25"/3.5")    (5.25"/3.5")

   DBLSPACE.BIN     SHR            X              X
   IO.SYS           SHR            X              X
   MSDOS.SYS        SHR            X              X
   COMMAND.COM        R            X              X
   DBLSPACE.EXE    A                              X
   SCANDISK.EXE    A               X              X

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Keywords: KB105828


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