3-16 Setting Up and Using the Software
Creating a Start-Up Diskette
Create a start-up diskette as follows. (For details, see the
MS-DOS user’s guide that came with the NEC Versa.)
1. If your system is in Windows, exit Windows.
2. From the DOS prompt (C:>), type the following com-
mand to format a diskette in drive a: using the /s option.
Press Enter after typing the command. (If you are using
a different diskette drive, use the correct drive letter.)
format a: /s
3. At the prompt, insert a blank diskette and press Enter to
begin formatting.
4. Once the diskette is formatted, enter a volume name and
press Enter or press Enter to skip naming the volume.
5. Type N when prompted to format another diskette and
press Enter.
6. While the diskette is still in the drive, type the following
and press Enter to copy the CONFIG.SYS file to the
diskette.
copy c:\config.sys a:\*.*
7. Type the following and press Enter to copy the
AUTOEXEC.BAT file to diskette.
copy c:\autoexec.bat a:\*.*
8. Remove the diskette from the drive, label it, and store it
in a safe place.
Creating a Second Configuration File
Keep your current configuration files available for use, by
copying them with a different name to the current directory
as follows.