First post, by oso2k
Has anybody compared the floppy bootdisk images from bootdisk.com (BOOT98SC below) and allbootdisks.com (BOOT98)? I, specifically, am concerned about the Windows98_SE_No_Ramdrive images (DOS 7.1). I noted differences in several files and the bootdisk.com image is also labeled "Custom, No Ramdrive". The bootdisks.com image is what Phil (from Phil's Computer Lab on YouTube) recommended. Obviously, I'm concerned about viruses and what potential modifications were made. Has anybody run AV scans, checksums, etc. against the images? Does anybody have an original CDs/floppies/images source to compare against? Does anybody have an opinion which is better? This isn't a critique against either provider, more, I want to document differences from originals and any fixes.
Thanks all...
>diff -u /Volumes/BOOT98 /Volumes/BOOT98SC/
Common subdirectories: /Volumes/BOOT98/.fseventsd and /Volumes/BOOT98SC/.fseventsd
Binary files /Volumes/BOOT98/COMMAND.COM and /Volumes/BOOT98SC/COMMAND.COM differ
Only in /Volumes/BOOT98: DISKCOPY.COM
Only in /Volumes/BOOT98SC/: DISPLAY.SYS
Only in /Volumes/BOOT98SC/: EXTRACT.EXE
Binary files /Volumes/BOOT98/FDISK.EXE and /Volumes/BOOT98SC/FDISK.EXE differ
Only in /Volumes/BOOT98SC/: FIND.EXE
Only in /Volumes/BOOT98SC/: IEXTRACT.EXE
Binary files /Volumes/BOOT98/IO.SYS and /Volumes/BOOT98SC/IO.SYS differ
Only in /Volumes/BOOT98: MTMCDAI.SYS
Binary files /Volumes/BOOT98/XCOPY32.MOD and /Volumes/BOOT98SC/XCOPY32.MOD differ