Okay, I'm stuck.  I am running a Windows XP Pro machine.  For reasons I
won't bother to go into, I'd like to be able to boot from a floppy disk,
arrive at a old fashion DOS command prompt, with my old fashion DOS screen
reader running.  For the curious, I use the IBM screen reader as my DOS TTS.
I created a bootable floppy disk, but I can't get anything else to happen.
I looked at the floppy once created, and it has the array of expected files
including config.sys and autoexec.bat.  They're empty.  So, I have edited
them to have the usual stuff you used to see in such boot files.  My
suspicion is that the computer isn't even looking at the floppy for boot up
purposes.  It doesn't boot to the hard drive either when the floppy is
inserted.  I know without supplying my batch files for analysis I am asking
someone to answer this without all the data, but I'm really just looking for
possible gotchas I'm unaware of within XP.  I used to do this sort of thing
all the time with earlier operating systems, so I know how to do
sophisticated boot ups.   

Any passing thoughts would be appreciated.
Bill


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