Mail Archives: djgpp/2000/02/18/17:41:40
> >3. Will it install on a FAT partition,
> >or does it need its own type of partition?
>
> An Extended-2 filesystem is preferred, but it can use a FAT partition
> using UMSDOS. (This is how winlinux 2000 and Phat Linux work.)
Does it support FAT32? I mean, could I install it to my C drive along with
Windows 2000?
> Win2k: Overwrites LILO on purpose.
What about it you install Win2k first and Linux second?
> F8-DOS 7.1 (the MS-DOS that comes with Win9x) is stable.
Yeah, but the GUI of Win9x isn't :-) Anyway, the DOS in Windows Millenium
is called MS-DOS 8.00 and they've made some nasty changes (such as no MS-DOS
mode or Command Prompt option). It looks like it's going to be what they
originally promised Win95 would be - ie. no DOS avalaible.
> There ought to be a way to unbind that key.
The only way to disable the Windows key is to get the Doswinky patch from
Microsoft's web site, then when you install that, disabling Ctrl-Esc in the
DOS-prompt properties also disables the Win key.
> When I load DOS from LILO, I have the BootMenu=1 in my msdos.sys
> which lets me pick 1 for Windows or 5 for DOS.
I just set BootGUI to 0, so it always boots DOS - it's not hard to then type
WIN if you want Windows ;-)
> >But all applications and games these days are for Windows.
>
> All? Have you been to http://depot.allegro.cc recently?
Ok, all commercial games.
> >Well Windows 2000 has never crashed for me except where DOS apps
> >are involved. So if you only run Windows apps, it very rarely crashes.
>
> Unless one of those Windows apps is anything with "Explorer" in the
> name.
Yeah ;-) but at least it just re-loads a new copy of Explorer and
continues, so you don't have to reboot.
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