System information

FUNCTION COMPLETE
System is copied to memory. SYSGEN then prompts with the following:
DESTINATION DRIVE NAME
(OR RETURN TO REBOOT)
If a disk is being initialized, place the new disk into a drive and answer with the
drive name. Otherwise, press a carriage return and the system reboots from drive
A. Typing drive name d causes SYSGEN to prompt with the following message:
DESTINATION ON d
THEN TYPE RETURN
Place new disk into drive d; press return when ready.
FUNCTION COMPLETE
New disk is initialized in drive d.
The DESTINATION prompt is repeated until a single carriage return is pressed at the console, so
that more than one disk can be initialized.
Upon completion of a successful system generation, the new disk contains the operating system,
and only the built-in commands are available. An IBM-compatible disk appears to CP/M as a
disk with an empty directory; therefore, the operator must copy the appropriate COM files from
an existing CP/M disk to the newly constructed disk using the PIP transient.
You can copy all files from an existing disk by typing the following PIP command:
PIP B:=A:*.*[v]
This command copies all files from disk drive A to disk drive B and verifies that each file has
been copied correctly. The name of each file is displayed at the console as the copy operation
proceeds.
Note that a SYSGEN does not destroy the files that already exist on a disk; it only constructs a
new operating system. If a disk is being used only on drives B through P and will never be the
source of a bootstrap operation on drive A, the SYSGEN need not take place.
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