Eric Auer wrote: > Hi! > >>> Unfortunately FreeDOS does not support Win9x. > > Well there are 2 ways of "support": Win9x includes > MS DOS 7 so you should only RUN it in MS DOS 7... > > But you can start the INSTALLERS of various Windows > versions from within other DOS :-). I think what you > are trying to do is boot DOS from diskette because > your BIOS cannot boot from cdrom directly?
My BIOS allow to boot from cdrom. But the win95 cdrom I own is not bootable... > In that > case you can use a grub4dos or btmgr (smart boot > manager) boot diskette which boots your cdrom for > you. Or you can use a FreeDOS boot diskette to run > the setup program of Win9x, but then you will have > to take care to use a suitable configuration. > This is what I am trying to do. > For example loading only HIMEM but no EMM386 would be > a suggestion, and loading only a minimum collection > of other drivers. Do you mean HIMEM.EXE ? It seems win95 does not think it is compatible. > Try whether loading or not loading > SHARE works better. Being a newbie to FREEDOS, I have no idea where to download those drivers from before putting them on my floppy. > For cdrom drivers, try xcdrom or > uide and shsucdx. If you have them, compare whether > Win9x prefers MSCDEX and the cdrom drivers included > in a Win9x boot diskette. The contents of such a boot > diskette should also be somewhere on the Win9x cdrom > so you can copy them, but this is just a guess :-). Good point. I'll check that ! > Eric Thanks for details :-) -- Godefroid Chapelle (aka __gotcha) http://bubblenet.be ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
