--- Bart Oldeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, Julien Pierre wrote: > > > A lot of DOS installation programs modify > > C:\CONFIG.SYS and C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT . How do you > deal > > with that ? I don't like the fact that those files > are > > ignored. > > Maybe you could do some sort of chaining. Process > > FDCONFIG.SYS first, CONFIG.SYS next. > > I tend to think of fdconfig.sys as an alternative to > config.sys if you > want to dual boot multiple DOSes from C: -- for > instance Windows 98 and > FreeDOS on the same hard disk partition. DRDOS can > do the same with > dconfig.sys. > > Processing both defeats this purpose. > > However the primary configuration file is > config.sys. If the installer > names it fdconfig.sys even on a non-dual-DOS-boot > system then IMHO that > should be corrected (for the reasons you mention).
FYI, for dual-booting, I think this should be handled by moving / copying files when switching to the other DOS system. Much like OS/2 can dual-boot with DOS on a FAT partition, and has to copy over its own CONFIG.SYS and backup the DOS one when switching. Anyway, I wasn't trying to dual boot anything, I wanted to use FreeDOS as my only DOS. I had a lot of random "invalid opcode" errors during the install from CD after I got past the SCSI driver problem, but I finally managed to get it installed. Somehow there weren't any UMBs on my machine, also (K6-2 550, 256 MB ECC RAM, Tyan S1590 Via MVP3 chipset). __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what you’re looking for faster http://search.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
