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- Boot Record Program (C) Copyright Peter Norton 1986
- From PC Magazine: Volume 5, No. 2, pp 271-275
- January 28th, 1986
-
- Description:
-
- This utility will re-write the DOS boot record on a floppy
- diskette with a custom boot-up message. It is intended for
- software distribution diskettes that do not have DOS installed
- on them.
-
- Requirements:
-
- To use this utility, you will need a copy of IBM (Microsoft)
- Macro Assembler, DOS Debug, Link, Exe2Bin, and the
- following files:
-
- BOOT.ASM ; assembly source you create by modifying
- ; one of the sample source programs.
-
- BOOT-SS.ASM ; Sample source for single sided diskettes.
-
- BOOT-DS.ASM ; Sample soruce for double sided diskettes.
-
- BOOTMAKE.BAT ; Batch file to create the boot record
-
- BOOT.DBG ; Debug input data. (Used by bootmake.bat).
-
- Usage:
-
- 1) Modify the message portion of either BOOT-SS.ASM or
- BOOT-DS.ASM and save as BOOT.ASM.
-
- 2) Insert the target diskette in drive A: (it must be formatted).
-
- 3) Execute BOOTMAKE from another drive (B:, C:, ...) Be sure
- that drive is the default drive and contains BOOTMAKE.BAT,
- BOOT.ASM, BOOT.DBG, MASM.EXE, LINK.EXE, EXE2BIN.EXE,
- and DEBUG.COM.
-
- 4) Follow the instructions in BOOTMAKE ... when finished, your
- diskette will contain your custom boot message.
-
- 5) Test your message by rebooting with the customized diskette
- in drive A: