Author: Pete Galati
Date: 12:10:30 03/25/01
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On March 25, 2001 at 11:58:08, Christophe Theron wrote: >On March 25, 2001 at 03:07:00, Mike S. wrote: > >>On March 25, 2001 at 01:17:50, Christophe Theron wrote: >> >>>On March 25, 2001 at 00:51:04, Pete Galati wrote: >>> >>>>(...) it claims that one of >>>>the things it automatically does is give you the ability to boot into Dos >>>>without having to cheat your way in with a system floppy. But I've been >>>>procrastinating and haven't bought it yet. >>>> >>>>Pete >>> >>>Until WinME it was very easy to boot in Dos. So I guess the product is designed >>>to restore this useful feature to Windows ME? >>> >>> Christophe >> >>There were freeware solutions published for that, but they do all kinds of >>changes as it seems, to sensible system files like command.com, io.sys etc. >>IIRC, and/or change the windows configration in conjunction with several >>mysterious winboot.bat, winstart.bat files or something like that... I use none >>of them. >> >>Windows Me still "allows" to make a bootable floppy, the system start disk. I >>reconfigured such a disk for my purposes, which has the advantage of avoiding >>any change to a windows or system file on harddisk. It's not very comfortable >>though... > > >Yes, that's what I do when I need to make an accurate measure of the speed of >Chess Tiger. > > > >> but I must be cautious; this system has only one of these recovery >>CD's, no complete Windows CD. > > >Brrr :( > > >>One problem of the floppy method is: If you want to suppress the loading of a >>XMS memory driver, this doesn't seem to be possible anymore (?). I don't know if >>custom DOS-boot methods allow this. Some older chess programs like Fritz 3, >>Hiarcs 3 (but also 7.01 I think) cannot allocate their large hash tables, when >>himem.sys or another XMS driver is loaded. >> >>Does somebody know more about that? > > >I noticed the same thing. You cannot get rid of this XMS driver anymore >apparently. It seems to be built in IO.SYS now. > >You could still use a DOS 6 floppy. > > > > Christophe I'll have to try using a Dos 6.22? system disc from on my old computer, cause I've still got the original OS and Windows 98 on that one. This is basically all I know about System Commander, what I read one this page, http://www.v-com.com/product/sc2_ind.html , I still had a bookmark for some reason. I don't really know if it's a ggod idea at all, but it looks like a cool idea, besides I've been thinking of partitioning and adding Windows 98 anyhow, and I've been told that I don't get the same boot menu posibilities with ME, so I started looking at Sys Commander. Pete
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