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DOS启动盘 & LOGO技术（启动盘室） » Can any expert explain the function or meaning of the files on an XP boot disk? Thanks a lot!!

Floor1　as9635	Posted 2003-07-16 00:00
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File list of the XP MS-DOS boot disk (15 files, taking up 555kB of space) On the blackboard: 1, AUTOEXEC.BAT 2, COMMAND.COM 3, KEYB.COM 4, MODE.COM Files: 5, DISPLAY.SYS 6, EGA.CPI 7, EGA2.CPI 8, EGA3.CPI 9, IO.SYS 10, KEYBOARD.SYS 11, KEYBRD2.CYC 12, KEYBRD3.SYS 13, KEYBRD4.SYS 14, MSDOS.SYS 15, CONFIG.SYS Can any expert explain the function or meaning of the above files? Thanks a lot!!

Floor2　Wengier	Posted 2003-07-16 00:00
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There is fundamentally no such thing as an XP DOS boot disk, because WinXP is not based on the DOS kernel. But under WinXP you can make an MS-DOS 8.0 boot disk.

Floor3　Roy	Posted 2003-07-16 00:00
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*The following is quoted from Wengier's post at 2003-7-16 20:37:16:* There is fundamentally no such thing as an XP DOS boot disk, because WinXP is not based on the DOS kernel. But XP does have the Recovery Console that needs 6 floppy disks.....

Floor4　godant	Posted 2003-07-16 00:00
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*The following is quoted from Roy's post at 2003-7-16 20:42:43:* *The following is quoted from Wengier's post at 2003-7-16 20:37:16:* There is fundamentally no such thing as an XP DOS boot disk, because WinXP is not based on the DOS kernel. But XP does have the Recovery Console that needs 6 floppy disks..... That's only part of the files inside i386. Actually XP does not boot in DOS mode; the reason it was made to boot from floppy disks is that some customers don't have CD-ROMs. Now M$ has already announced that after 2003 Server, floppy boot will no longer be supported. The Chinese edition of 2003 can no longer be found on the M$ website in those seven-disk versions; if there are any, they were all made by users themselves.