Douglas Ort wrote:
>
> Cristian:
>
> Please send your autoexec.bat and config.sys. Thanks.
Hi,
Sorry for some mistakes.
Michael Trausch is right: it is the msdos.sys to edit and the name is
loadlin without a final"e".
I am not an expert to give advices, I only tell what I have done myself.
I've heared (as I am not reading his messages) that a certain mr.
"Rider" made a pourpouse of his life to criticise everything I mail on
the list. Don't take this in account because it is a cosequence of a
private argue we had in the past.
Msdos.sys must have the following lines among others:
[Options]
BootMenu=0
BootGUI=0
Config.sys
at the beggining all devices
needed as HIMEM.sys, EMM386.exe, the device for the CD
and then
[menu]
menuitem=dos,Charge DOS
menuitem=win95,Charge Windows 95
menudefault=win95,10 it means 10 second delay to decide
[dos]
devicehigh=c:\adisound\dos_util\AD1815.sys this is to have
the sound card
"here put the devices win 3.1 is
installing"
buffers=10
files=50
stacks=9,256
[win95]
Autoexec.bat
first everything you have now except the path
goto %config%
:dos
path C:\windows\command ;c:\dos;C:\win31 and what you need
lh c:\widows\command\mscdex.exe/S/D:MTMIDE02/M:10 this is
to have access to
CD
lh mouse
lh nc to make Norton appear by default
goto end
:win95
path c:\windows\command ;c:\dos;c:\windows
win
:end
Notice that first I had dos 6.22, then I installed WIN95, then I made
the above changes, then I installed win 3.11. Win 3.11 wanted to use the
swap from WIN95 and it was locking. To make it work I had to cofigure
win 3.11 with temporary swap.
I didn't try win98 and more experienced people on the list said it won't
work.
In this way you use LILO for boot and choose between Linux and DOS.
If you choose DOS you have 10sec to decide between Win95 and DOS.
If you choose DOS you can have win3.11 by typeing win.
If you want Linux in the same menu you add a third menuitem, but you
have to use LOADLIN not LILO. I couldn't do it because it is necessary
to make an initial ram disk with initrd and I am not so good yet. If you
do it, please mail me.
RedHat can be started with LOADLIN, not only Slackware. And Debian also.
The above is not my invention, I took it fom the PC-TEAM Magazine and
adapted.
Good Luck
Critian
