Reply 20 of 27, by songoffall
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Sowden wrote on 2023-12-27, 17:08:Hey ho guys. So I have been looking for a good DOS floppy boot disk that does everything. I'm looking for things like mouse drivers, USB drive support, and CD-ROM support. I have one that does that, it's a Windows 98 boot disk with USB drivers added to it. But it takes around two minutes to boot. And if I step away from my laptop, it sits at a "Boot with CD-ROM Support" screen for 20 seconds, which I can't seem to figure out how to change that time frame. Does anyone have a link to a slim, only bare bones files, but does it all boot disk? Or even a img that I can burn to a floppy? Sorry if this has already been asked. I did a search but couldn't find anything. Thanks guys.
You might want to build the floppy yourself.
For MSDOS, you only need IO.SYS, MSDOS.SYS and COMMAND.COM. The Seagate and Oak CDROM drivers work fine with about all IDE CDROM drives. And Panasonic v2.06 ASPI Manager for USB mass storage driver is what you need for USB.
You might also want to add a bunch of MSDOS utilities, like FDISK, FORMAT etc.
The DOS USB drivers: https://winworldpc.com/product/dos-usb-support/1x
Windows 98 Boot floppy with CDROM drivers: https://winworldpc.com/product/microsoft-wind … boot-disk/98-se
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