I have these since years and made them ready for web-download in 2001 already.
Now I gathered them back from my archives to put them aside to download at phunsites.net.

Maybe, these are of use to others to.

Here’s a short overview of the bootdisks available:

• MS-DOS 6.22*
• MS-DOS 7.0 Beta (never released)**
• IBM PC-DOS 7.01*
• DR-DOS 7.03**
• Windows 95 4.00.950*
• Windows 95 4.00.1212*
• Windows 98 4.10.1998*
• Windows 95 SE 4.10.2222
• Windows ME 4.90

Additionally, there’s the following tools available:

• DOS/Windows Version of ‘dd’
• DOS/Windows CLI to overwrite floppy boot code; will allow to boot from HD even if the floppy is inserted
• DOS CD-ROM drivers for various drives

Maybe these can still be of value, despite floppy drives being gone and virtualization on the edge.

Disclaimer: I take no liability whatsoever damage could arise out of the use of these disk images.
These boot disks are provided “as is”. The copyright of the software contained on the boot disks retains to their respective copyright holder.

Dough! Bad Idea! Bad command or filename. Smash your head here to continue {(x)}!

So I winded up my memories from stoneage. Wasn’t there the choice command!?

Yeah, after some lurking around with the ‘/?’ feature I had stuck it together:

choice /c 1 /d 1 /t 1 > nul

While

• “/c 1″ sets the choice values (1 is my value)
• “/d 1″ sets the default choice value (which is 1 from above)
• “/t 1″ sets the timeout to 1 second (or whatever is appropriate)
• “> nul” means the same as “>/dev/null”: send output to nirvana (notice there being only one ‘l’ however)

Of course this may be bothersome to type if you use it often, so a “batch function” may be better, especially when you need other batch tricks to get around DOS command limitations (lazy man’s approach: create a second batch file for it).

@echo off

rem *******************
rem check args
rem *******************

:checkargs

if "%1/" == "func/" goto callfunc
goto main

:_checkargs

rem *******************
rem call functions
rem *******************

:callfunc
 shift

 rem we could do "goto %1" instead
 rem if there is a lot of functions
 if "%1/" == "sleep/" goto sleep

 goto exit

:_callfunc

rem *******************
rem function sleep
rem *******************

:sleep
 shift

 choice /c 1 /d 1 /t %1 > nul

 goto exit

:_sleep

rem *******************
rem main body
rem *******************

:main
 echo hello, going to sleep now
 call %0 func sleep 1

 echo sleep is over, good bye

 goto exit

:_main

rem *******************
rem exit handler
rem *******************

:exit
 rem if there is anything left to do, do it now.

:_exit