How to create a FreeDOS Bootable Floppy Diskette Copy the files from this archive into a directory on your drive. These are the files you will find in this file. COMMAND.COM IPL.SYS KERNEL.EXE SYS.EXE BOOT.BIN From the directory on the drive, type SYS A: . Be sure that you are using the SYS.EXE file included in this archive, and NOT the SYS file from MS-DOS or Windows 95. FreeDOS is a Free Operating System, that's aim is be 100% MS-DOS compatible. It is released under a GNU General Public License.