Hi, On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 4:21 PM, Kenny Emond <cheeseylem...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Never mind what I said about wanting to fix it so win98 and > FreeDOS could work together. Now I just want to purge win98 > from the system. > > Of course. I meant just a general FreeDOS 1.1 install. > > The first two are directories that should not be there (I know for a > fact). Thanks for any help,
Just to get back to you here ... I'm not sure how much help I can be. I don't have Win98 installed and haven't used it lately and have no references for its installation files. So I dunno. I almost want to give you some sample AUTOEXECs, but it's mostly just generic stuff you can glean from FD's HTMLhelp [sic] or similar (locally or online). http://help.fdos.org/en/index.htm You may just have to manually step through subdirs with a file manager to see if something is important to you and worth keeping (not zapping). Most likely most stuff is not, but I don't know what apps you personally installed, want, need, etc. Honestly, FreeDOS only needs KERNEL.SYS plus COMMAND.COM, everything else is gravy. Of course I'd recommend HIMEMX (or XMGR) and UIDE (or LBACACHE) and SHSUCDX and CTMOUSE and UNZIP and various other things, but that's a personal decision. ;-) So, you can probably delete most everything (except any personal data or config files you aren't willing to lose). I had almost forgotten that Win98 was loosely based upon MS-DOS, which [MS] has a bad habit of only installing to the very first partition and root (sector 0) of the hard drive. So it's not going to get along by default when you install it, and hence this is why it's (probably?) recommended to install (old) Windows first. It can (somewhat) get along with a previously installed MS-DOS [sic], *in theory*, but I wouldn't rely on that. command.dos -- probably MS' backup, read to be safe then delete config.dos -- same as above edit.cfg -- useless, delete it (and/or email me about my fixed build) lcache00.tmp -- sounds useless, certainly not useful for FreeDOS msnmgsr1.log -- ditto, useless for FreeDOS :-) netlog.txt -- probably? useless for FreeDOS, but I'm not network savvy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
