Bernd Blaauw wrote:
just copy IO.SYS, MSDOS.SYS and COMMAND.COM to C:, then do SYS A: C: /BOOTONLY /OEM:MS and reboot system. Then check if MSDOS boots first, and only when it does, install Windows.
I ran a similar test today, and got an unexpected result. Using standard FreeDOS: 1. Booted up FreeDOS from CD-ROM 2. Created a FAT16 C: drive and formatted it 3. Rebooted into pure MS-DOS 6.22 using a floppy 4. Ran SYS a: c: (it says "system transferred") 5. You can now boot into DOS 6.22 using the hard-drive 6. Run Windows real-mode setup This time, I still get TWO items on the Windows NT/2000 boot loader menu 1. Windows 2000 2. MS-DOS (as opposed to "Previous Operating System on C:") Hehe, so I guess there's a difference between simply using DOS 6.22 format, and actually using DOS 6.22 SYS. Maybe the IO.SYS, MSDOS.SYS and COMMAND.COM cause the issue. -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
