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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!in2.uu.net!newshost.marcam.com!news.mathworks.com!news.ultranet.com!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!interlog.com!news From: daveacg@interlog.com (Dave Glue) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.sys.ibm,comp.sys.intel Subject: Re: I have one thing to say about Windows '95 & FreeBSD Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 05:46:50 GMT Organization: InterLog Internet Services Lines: 32 Message-ID: <420jj5$bnu@steel.interlog.com> References: <41gceu$i14@mirv.unsw.edu.au> <41igjd$lif@nms.telepost.no> <41kal5$2um@harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au> <41m3at$vn7@lucy.swin.edu.au> <41qk39$16f@kadath.zeitgeist.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: daveacg.interlog.com X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:5525 comp.sys.intel:47059 "Amancio Hasty, Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> wrote: >At any rate, I decided to try a fantastic DOS demo called 2reality and it >didn't >work because it didn't have enough memory (my system has 32mb) so I edited >my config.sys and rebooted . Thinking this is great now I can run my demo. >But a typo in my config.sys prevented me from running Win95, darn where is >that DOS disk when I need it. So I booted my system to FreeBSD access >my dos disk and fixed my config.sys . Booted back into Win95 and then shutdown >to dos to run my demo 8) What would have made more sense is you let Win95 handle the config.sys and autoexe.bat for the program. Give it what it needs, then Win95 will make seperate config for that program and reboot. Or, enter "Bootmulti=1" in your MSDOS.SYS file. Win95 will then give you the option of booting back to old DOS when you press F8 on statup. Feel free to modify your config files there with no consqeuence on your Win95 config, as they will be saved as config.dos and autoexec.dos respectively, and re-placed as .sys when you want to back to your "old dos" mode. > Now this is *real* progress! You manually chose to make the process a hell of a lot more difficult than it should have been. Right-click on the programs icon, choose properties, and away you go.