On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 21:54 +0000, Gerry Hickman wrote: > Hi, > > > Yeah, you're right. But how can they extract the MS-DOS from Windows > > 98-SE? > > I'm pretty sure you can extract DOS from Win95, 98, 98SE. First you get > the manifest files that tell you which file is in which CAB (or just > look), then you extract and expand the files you want from the CAB file, > put them into a boot image and off it goes. However, none of them are as > good as FreeDOS. > > What I did was create four folders > > Dos622 > Win95 > Win98SE > FreeDOS > > then in each I got a compatible boot sector, then put the "DOS" files in > there too; this means it's easy to build bootable images of any of these > o/s at any time. Note also that if you are going to use MSCLIENT you > have to be very careful to match HIMEM, EMM386 with IFSHLP.SYS. Note > also that Dos622 is fussy about the actual sector locations of IO.SYS > and MSDOS.SYS
What would be fun would be to get help from the author of Hiren's boot CD and make a multiboot DVD out of all four of these. Though I would replace Win95 with Knoppix. > -- ___ _ _ _ ____ _ _ _ | | | | [__ | | | |___ |_|_| ___] | \/ ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
