On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, cristian wrote:
> First you install Win95 and let it make the changes he wants.
> Then you modify IO.sys.
io.sys? Are you sure? io.sys is a binary file.
> THen you make a menu in the config.sys, so you can choose what to
> charge, Win95 or DOS.
> Then you choose DOS and from this DOS, which is a real DOS, you install
Can you explain how is that 'a real dos'?
> Win3.1.
If the man has already win3.x installed, he doesn't need to do
another installation. Read my previous post on the same issue.
> If you use Loadline to boot Linux you can add another entry in the menu
> you made in config.sys.
> If you use Lilo you choose first between Lilo and Win95 then Between
How can you choose between lilo and win95? lilo is a bootloader,
and win is an OS. You choose from Linux and win.
> Win95 and Dos(or Win3.1).
win3.x is still a graphical platform. So you can't boot win3.x
> Slackware has in the distribution a basic Linux which can work in a Dos
> directory to the purpose that people can try Linux without making a
> re-partitioning of the disk.
That is called ZipSlack. It's an UMSDOS distribution. And if I
recall well, SW was the first distribution that had an UMSDOS version. ZS
is not so basic.
I thought you knew enough to tell that SW is the only distribution
that can still be installed from floppies - only the very basic stuff.
Warning: UMSDOS distributions aren't safe. They are just to get
the 'feel' of Linux.
> If someone wants I can mail my config.sys and autoexec.bat.
Anybody can make a config.sys with menus. Even the win95 users.
They don't get the dos help installed by default, but it can be found on
the win95 CD. There is all the information about customizing dos,
including it's configuration files.
A personal question: why all that trouble? I don't say that ain't
possible. I never tested. You have to press F8 at boot time (win9x) and
you'll have a menu, and the last option is to boot the old dos version..
Unless you need a dos drive - normally you should upgrade all drivers to
their 32bit version - or unless you use other character set than the
standard US, than you should remove config.sys and autoexec.bat. Than I
doubt your version. Because making a config.sys menu to choose between
dos (older than 7.0) and win9x implies the partial load of the OS.
config.sys is not a boot loader...
> Cristian Carnutu
Raider
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