Boot Disk as an OS?

[JC00]

I'm in need of a DOS operating system for a POS. I have an MS-DOS 6.22 on the machine but it doesn't run the POS software that I need for some reason that I have exhaustively tried to find out the problem to no avail.

The software worked when I booted up using a Win98 boot disk.

Is it possible to put the contents of a boot disk on a hard drive and make that boot disk the operating system on the hard drive so I wouldnt' have to use a boot disk everytime?

What boot disk can do it? I need one that has networking capabilities built-in since this is a POS machine after all. If it doesn't have any networking capabilities then I think I can use mswgcn.exe. The most important thing for me is a DOS-type software that can run the POS software.

A new MS-DOS is out of the question since it's impossible to find one in retail in my country right now.

[EzyStvy]

Guessing you have a blank - freshly formated hard drive->

You could try booting off the 98 bootdisk since you said it worked...From the A Prompt type: SYS C: (pc should be bootable without the floppy at this point)

You could then copy the contents of the floppy to the C drive root folder. You'll probably have to edit/ tweak the autoexec.bat file to run off of C instead of A drive...

[faulkner132]

http://www.freedos.org/

[JC00]

Can you point me to a site that has the autoexec commands that can use a bootable disk as an OS?

[EzyStvy]

You don't need the autoexec.bat to boot the machine. You use it to load drivers for your cd rom and such...

A complete overview of MS-DOS and its commands.
http://www.computerhope.com/msdos.htm

[JC00]

Thank you.