Hi
In windows 95 c:\windows\command contains dos files, esentially it is
equal to c:\dos from dos 622. You don't need to install dos622 to get dos
whith win95, you don't need to install win95 to get dos 7 except for IO.sys
and MSdos.sys and command.com, all or most of the rest of the dos files can
be extracted from the win95\*.cab files using extract.exe...
c:\windows directory contains himem.sys emm386.exe ifshlp.sys plus a few
more I can't remember, the way to do it is:
copy /b c:\windows\command\format.com c:\format.com
copy /b c:\windows\command\sys.com c:\sys.com
set the path to c:\ or else the flopy you format will have drvspace.bin
transfered whith the sys transfer, it also will be loaded whith dos or by
IO.sys wheather you like it or not.
path c:
format a: /u /t:80 /n:18
sys a:
md a:\command
copy /b c:\windows\command\*.* a:\command\*.*
copy /b c:\windows\himem.sys a:\himem.sys
copy /b c:\windows\emm386.exe a:\emm386.exe
copy /b c:\windows\ifshlp.sys a:\ifshlp.sys
copy /b c:\windows\setver.exe a:\setver.exe
edit a:\config.sys
a:\config.sys
device="goes here"
;Wheather or not you put device=setver.exe and device=ifshlp.sys, dos 7 will
;load them any way in that order.
;alt f x y to exit and save file. a:\config.sys can be blank for now...
edit a:\autoexec.bat
a:\autoexec.bat
@echo off
prompt $p$g"or what ever prompt you want"
path a:\;a:\command
;alt f x y save changes and exit...
You now have dos 7 on a flopy, at:
ftp.microsoft.com
There is an oldmsdos.exe, this hase the rest of the ms dos stuff like
memmaker and other add ons to ms dos that was not included in dos 7.
The directory structor must be maintained for himem and emm386 setver and
ifshlp in the root of the flopy, and the rest of the dos in command. the
memmaker program has part of itself installed to command and another part to
c:\windows directory...
The win95 I have doesn't overwrite the c:\dos directory!!!
Goto F8 and you can boot previos verson of dos because of this...
Pete
On 1999-06-10 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>Hello Everyone,
>Someone posted a message a while back about "extracting" MS-DOS
>7.0 out of Win95 to gain the multitasking ability of Win95. I'm
>interested in trying this, just to see if it can be done.
>I went out and searched for info on this and only got half an
>answer. There were several pages with instructions on how to
>extract DOS out of Windows, and that is easy enough. A brief
>thumbnail of how this is done is; you install MS-DOS 6.22, then
>install Win95, making sure the 7.0 system files overwrite the
>6.22 files, and delete everything but DOS. However there wasn't
>any info on any of the pages I read about how to use the
>multitasking once you get DOS extracted from Win.
>I have been thinking about this... Without the GUI how would
>would you start each task? You could start the first task from
>the DOS prompt of course, but once you get the first task running
>how would you start the second, and third, etc? With the GUI you
>just click on the icon of each task you want to start...
>Does anyone have any ideas on this and how it could be done?
>Advice? Recommendations? Things to try?
>Boanne :)
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