Hi there, On Wed, 18 Mar 2026, tsiegel--- via Freedos-user wrote:
... I thought the copying of command.com to the target drive was part of the sys command. Does freedos not do this? ...
The FreeDOS sys.com is somewhat different from other versions of sys.com in other DOS-like operating systems. Some would say it's better. Maybe I'd hedge my bets by saying that it's more featureful. :) Yes it does copy the command interpreter if it's told to do that - and of course if it can find it where it looks for it. The extract below is from the docs at .../freedos/doc/kernel/sys.txt. 8<---------------------------------------------------------------------- The simplest usage: SYS dest: dest should be the drive (A:, B:, C:, ...) you wish to be bootable with FreeDOS (kernel & command.com) When using this form, KERNEL.SYS and COMMAND.COM must reside either in the current directory (which is searched first) or in recent revisions may also be in the root directory of the current drive. Complete form: SYS [source] dest: [bootsect [/BOTH]] Here dest is the same as before, but this time you specify where KERNEL.SYS and COMMAND.COM are. 8<---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 73, Ged. _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
