On Sun, 27 Jan 2002 14:13:54 -0600, "Rob" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sam; > I just read your post and you are right about windoze reconfiguring > these files on startup. I can't give you a very technical explanation > but I believe it is related to the fact that starting with m$dos7 and > windoze the startup file m$dos.sys was changed from a binary file to > a text file. The system you describe is how I used to use m$dos6.22 > which supposedly needs to sit next to the MBR, and runs 'under' windoze > , I have tried to change that with no luck. With DR-DOS tho, it has a > bootloader program which allows you to run 7.03 on 'top' of windoze > and gives you a choice of which OS to boot to, instead of trying to hit > the 2 second f8 window of the previous DOS menu item that windoze > offers. VERY HANDY! The windoze system only renames the 8.3 extension > and does not need either autoexec.bat or config.sys I have neither on > my computer, they are there only if you already have a DOS on your > hard drive before you install windoze, I install windoze first then > DR-DOS, windoze doesn't see it on startup and this produces much less > conflict between OS's. I hope this has provided you with some > explanation. > Rob: I have read that if you install DR-DOS on your computer before installing some versions of Windows you will get a false error message during the Windows installation process telling you something to the effect that DR-DOS is a bad version of DOS and that it might break your Windows. I didn't get any false error messages like that when I installed Windows 95 after installing DR-DOS 7.03. Has anyone here encountered such a false error message issued from Windows telling you that DR-DOS is bad? Sam Heywood -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/
