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Assuming you're talking about making a bootable floppy disk... You need to format the disk with the /s switch... For example - Format A: /s

Once the disk has formatted - you need to copy the system files (config.sys, config.bat & autoexec.bat) to the disk.

This creates the bare minimum files needed to boot a computer from a floppy - and give you the command prompt. There are other files you can add to the disk (such as what the command prompt will look like etc) - but they're entirely for your own choices.

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