Given that hard drives are so cheap... might consider what
I did with Linux.. formatted a slave drive with dos, and
set the cmos to boot off A: ...pop the floopy in with
bootthru.com on it, and it dont even see the 32 bit OS
drives. not a dos emulator, it is dos. pop the floppy out,
and it boots to your standard master with the 32 bit OS.
Dweezil Dwarftosser wrote:
>
> ---
> > From: Howard Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Subject: Dos and Win ME?
> >
> > Recently I read of a patch that allows you to boot to real dos mode
> > from within windows ME. This was possible without a patch with
> > window 98. I assume that both use dos 7, whether you run a dos
> > box or go into real mode.
> >
> > My general impression is that the aging windows 95 is probably the
> > best version of windows for being able to actually run most of
> > your dos programs.
> >
> > Is this correct? If I ever need to get a copy of winblows for work
> > related reasons, I would like one that let me get to a relatively
> > stable form of dos relatively easily.
>
> I bought the wife a 600MHz eMachines box last Christmas, and it came
> with Win ME. (Which is really, really bad. It is nothing more than
> an HTML-linked version of Win98, but one which does not have a real
> config.sys/autoexec.bat. You can write them, but it won't see them
> upon reboot. You can't even add a directory to the PATH command.)
>
> Win ME does have a nice third-party patch available, though, and
> the patch works well. (It hacks the "emergency boot disk"
> command.com for the purpose, and installs it so that Win ME can
> be configured YOUR way.) The only problem: during boot-up, it
> prints "Emergency boot disk" or similar to the screen.
>
> The same bunch that produced the patch also makes a great little
> MS Internet Explorer remover for win ME. (Maybe not a good idea
> for everyone, because win ME is SO integrated to it. All of the
> worthless ME "help" files are presented in HTML, for example - so
> once IE is zapped, viewing any "help" file will give an error that
> it can't find IE.)
>
> For me, the least annoying version of windoze is win95. Just make
> a "shortcut" to command.com on the desktop: instant (virtual) DOS!
> (Unlike the slow, re-booting "Real mode MS-DOS" icon which is part
> of the basic suite. It really isn't a complete real-mode, anyway:
> windows still retains more than half a meg of RAM as EMS for its
> own purposes.)
>
> For REAL real-mode from Win 95, reboot and use F8 to select "command
> line only". It won't take as long as windows' own "Real mode
> MS-DOS", and leaves you in control of the configuration - not some
> Microsoft marketing type.
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