Re: Currently Seeking Auto Execs
- Posted by gertie at ad-tek.net
Jun 26, 2001
On 26 Jun 2001, at 12:38, Travis Beaty wrote:
> Howdy y'all!
Howdy pardner! lol
<snip>
> Now then, here's my next problem: locating the autoexec file. Perhaps with a
>
> bit of naïveté, I'm assuming that the autoexec file will be in the root
> directory of the user's boot drive. So, wonderful ... which one is the boot
> drive?
>
> The reason I ask such a silly question is that I've never had a computer with
> more than one hard drive. That being the case, the user *could* install
> Euphoria on a secondary drive ... the one that *doesn't* have the autoexec.bat
>
> file.
>
> The only way I could figure to do this programmatically and without "asking"
> the user is to search the root directory of every drive on the user's system
> for "autoexec.bat." But ... is it possible for the user to have _two_
> autoexec
> files ...
Yes, it is. I routinely make all my hardrives bootable,, in either dos 5, dos
6.22, or
win95. The startup files files on each drive are different. Plus, win95 makes an
autoexec.dos for dos boots in win95. Course, i don't use the 20megabyte
harddrive
much anymore. Will you modify the win95 boot autoexec or the dos boot autoexec?
> On my computer, at start up, I can load either Windows or Linux. I'm worried
> about a situation in which another user could load Windows NT or Windows 98,
> or
> some such confusing setup. In that case, it is conceivable that there would
> be
> two autoexec.bat files, if NT booted using drive C: and 98 booted using drive
> D: for instance.
Err, there is also the linux version that exists on the harddrive only as a file
image? I
don't think you can modify that from the other OS.
> In short, folks, I do believe that I'm confusing the hell out of myself.
> Could
> someone please help before my head explodes. Thank you.
/me plugs Travis into the Matrix and reconfigures reality for him.... feel all
better? 
Kat
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