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Re: new tables

• Posted by rforno at tutopia.com Sep 16, 2002
• 388 views

Many thanks for your info!
----- Original Message -----
From: <jbrown105 at speedymail.org>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Subject: Re: new tables



http://www.geocities.com/mfd4life_2000/ and
http://www.mvpdts.fsnet.co.uk/WinME.htm
let you boot into DOS Mode from ME w/o using a boot floppy. One of them
is
a hybrid solution (a minimal set of Win 98 files are used for the boot
to
DOS Mode) while the other attempts to use patches to allow REAL DOS
MODE
IN ME (patches a bunch of system files so that DOS Mode is no longer
hidden
by the system files).

jbrown

On  0, rforno at tutopia.com wrote:
>
> Pete and Jiri:
> For your info, I have Dragon Linux installed *inside* DOS. It runs from a
> clean DOS, not DOS under Win 98, and does not need to create a new disk
> partition. I could not compare it to normal Linux, but they say it is a
bit
> slower.
> Recently (really yesterday!) I switched to Windows Millennium, because I
had
> a strange problem with W 98 SE (during boot, it hanged very frequently; I
> reinstalled it, but after a while it continued hanging). Since yesterday,
I
> booted W ME about a dozen times, without problems.
> The only problem I had was that W ME wont allow you to restart (or even
> boot) in plain DOS mode, even modifying MSDOS.SYS such that it contains
> BootGUI=0 instead of 1. I solved this by using a Windows 98 SE Bootdisk
from
> A:. I think it is a good tip for W ME users, which are deprived the use of
> stand-alone DOS by Micro$oft.
> Regards.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <petelomax at blueyonder.co.uk>
> To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
> Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 8:39 PM
> Subject: Re: new tables
>
>
> > On Mon, 9 Sep 2002 22:16:17 +1200, Jiri Babor <jbabor at PARADISE.NET.NZ>
> > wrote:
> >
> > >Unfortunately, I seem to be on his 'ignore' list,
> >
> > I just recently attributed such to a minor change to my email addy (in
> > a vain/pathetic attempt to reduce the ever-increasing deluge of spam
> > one gets). Ho hum.
> > >
> > >http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~jbabor/euphoria.html
> > >
> > So: you still not got linux yet (tip: buy a new hard drive & risk
> > formatting it!) Let me know what you find difficult & I'll see if I
> > can help - I have SuSe on the 2nd half of my 2nd hard disk without
> > having damaged my existing win98 setup, it is lovely but doesn't
> > recognise my old monitor fully/properly, modem, soundcard, or
> > cd-writer.
> > If, er - make that When I replace this piece of junk, (48MB, 233MHz)
> > then  I'll go Linux mainly, winduz part time.
> >
> > Pete
> >
> >

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