Copying system diskettes, L-16 – Kreisen 3 8 6 X / X E User Manual

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Copying System Diskettes

Now that you have started your system and loaded MS-DOS, it

is important that you make copies of your MS-DOS diskettes

right away. Use the copies (called working copies) as they are
needed and store the originals in a safe place.

Each of the system diskettes is formatted for 360KB.

(Formatting prepares a diskette to store data and is described in

Chapter 3 and Chapter 5.)

To copy them, you need seven 360KB doubledensity, 5¼-inch

diskettes.

N o t e

If you do not have any 360KB diskettes, you can use
unformatted 1.2MB diskettes. When copying from 360KB

diskettes, the DISKCOPY program formats the 1.2MB

diskettes for 360KB.

Follow these steps:

1.

The C > prompt should be on the screen. If not, type C:

and press Enter.

2.

Type the following and press Enter:

DISKCOPY A: A:

The screen displays this message:

Insert

SOURCE diskette in drive A:

Press

any

key to

continue...

3.

Insert the MS-DOS diskette in drive A, as shown below.

Hold the diskette with the label facing up and the
read/write slot into the drive.

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