Why? That's the exact order Windows 98 has them and it does it just fine. Maybe if I could skip the mode con commands, something would budge.

W dniu 25.09.2023 o 01:11, Ron Mabry via Freedos-user pisze:
Maybe move the commands in autoexec config files

On Sun, Sep 24, 2023, 5:08 PM Ron Mabry <rwma...@gmail.com> wrote:

    Been awhile and I don't have access to a computer but what is
    c:\windows /E:1024
    Isn't that telling windows now to use that mem as extended mem
    ? Or what's the meaning of the e switch... again no computer fat
    fingers hard to type, no batt.


    On Sun, Sep 24, 2023, 2:51 PM Michał Dec via Freedos-user
    <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:

        Hello everyone,

        I wanted to boot Windows 98 from FreeDOS 1.3, because I would
        like to
        keep all things together without worrying about partitioning.

        So I actually have a block device backup of when Windows 98
        was working
        on this computer. I've extracted the contents and focused on
        what does
        Windows 98 have in its autoexec.bat and config.sys files.

        So let's see autoexec.bat from Windows 98:

        SET PATH=C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND
        SET SOUND=C:\PROGRA~1\CREATIVE\CTSND
        SET MIDI=SYNTH:1 MAP:E MODE:0
        SET BLASTER=A220 I7 D1 H7 P330 E620 T6
        mode con codepage prepare=((852) C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\ega.cpi)
        mode con codepage select=852
        keyb pl,,C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\keybdr4.sys

        Now, the config.sys from Windows 98:

        DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\setver.exe
        device=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\display.sys con=(ega,,1)
        Country=048,852,C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\country.sys

        Combining this knowledge, I conceived this, but I'm not sure
        if this is
        correct. That's 7th entry from my FreeDOS fdconfig.sys:

        7?DOS=HIGH
        7?DOSDATA=HIGH
        7?DEVICEHIGH=C:\WINDOWS\SETVER.EXE
        7?DEVICEHIGH=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\DISPLAY.SYS con=(ega,,1)
        7?Country=048,852,C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\COUNTRY.SYS
        7?SHELLHIGH=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM <http://COMMAND.COM>
        C:\WINDOWS /E:1024 /P=C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT
        /K=WIN.COM <http://WIN.COM>

        Apparently this doesn't work... kinda. It complains about
        UMBs, then I'm
        dropped into an interactive terminal.

        If I try to now run "C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM
        <http://COMMAND.COM> C:\WINDOWS /E:1024
        /P=C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT /K=WIN.COM <http://WIN.COM>", I get a
        barebones Windows 98 terminal.
        Still not there though.

        If instead I would have tried "C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM
        <http://COMMAND.COM> C:\WINDOWS /E:1024
        /P C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT /K=WIN.COM <http://WIN.COM>", I get stuck
        at "mode con codepage
        prepare=((852) C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\ega.cpi)".

        Any ideas how this can be done and how to progress further?

        Best regards,

        Michał Dec



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