you really need to take your own advice - and some prozac! :)
Michael Trausch wrote:
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> Hey, ass... don't say a damn thing unless you know what you're talking
> about. MSDOS.SYS in Windows 95 and newer is a goddamn TEXT file.
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> Shut your damn hole and don't open it again.
>
> - Mike
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> On Sun, 7 Mar 1999, rude bwoy wrote:
>
> > I've been trying (desperately and apparently unsucessfully)
> > to follow this thread
> >
> > NO!!! - it is NOT IO.SYS or MSDOS.SYS !!!
> > IT IS CONFIG.SYS you must edit.
> > both io.sys and msdos.sys are binaries...
> >
> > The config.sys you describe below may work for multibooting
> > DOS and WINDOWS.
> >
> > loadlin.exe is a DOS executable that is run on startup as
> > specified in the config.sys. It in turn LOADs LINux kernel...
> > (that is specified to it as an argument) the root partiton is also
> > specified as an argument... When using lodlin.exe, when you
> > boot to linux, the autoexec.bat is not even read!
> >
> > Consequences of the previous statement are that
> > DOS/WIN95/WIN98 MUST RULE the master boot record!
> >
> > lilo has nothing to do with this
> >
> > The alternate way of doing multiboot is to have linux rule the
> > MBR. then AND ONLY THEN do u use lilo for multiboot.
> >
> > Frankly, I am mystifyed that any of what you have said below
> > actually works for multibooting linux and windows.
> > (Unless you use a floppy ) :)
> >
> > Nobody is criticizing you. as I had mentioned in an email to
> > this list some time ago - there is more than 1 way to skin a
> > cat. however some things are just PLAIN WRONG!!
> > (Or akin to using a sledgehammer to kill an ant)
> >
> > ps:
> > az all may have noticed, i've been compelled 2 use the queen's
> > english in xplaining - az it seems that some r not proficient with
> > the language - no - no appluaze plz... :)
> > _____________________________________________________
> >
> >
> > cristian wrote:
> >
> > > 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
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