MS-DOS boot disk and debug.exe

[Nervous breakdown]

Hi,

Anybody know how I can easily run debug.exe in MS-DOS?
Here's what I did:
1) Format a disk
2) Make the disk MS-DOS bootable using format (installs
io.sys, msdos.sys, command.com)
3) Copy c:\windows\system32\debug.exe onto the disk
4) Reboot computer using the bootdisk
5) Run debug.exe, get the message "bad MS-DOS version".

I though that in year 2003 we would have passed beyond
that stupid version check, especially that both MS-DOS
and debug.exe come from the same Windows XP computer, and
debug.exe works well under XP (in dos prompt). My problem
is that I need to use a boot disk, because I have to
remove all SCSI adapters to perform my test (which BIOS
extensions get loaded in segments C000h and D000h for
those interested).

 

[E.P. van Westendorp]

When you create a bootable floppy from within Windows XP you will get a
MS-DOS 5.0 disk!

 

[Pavel]

The debug you found in the system32 folder is for use with CMD.exe and that
is why you getting the version error.
If the disk was formatted using Win98 then you need the debug.exe from
Win98. Use VER to find out what you have.