Mail Archives: opendos/1997/01/21/00:37:39
On Mon, 20 Jan 1997, Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church wrote:
> >> > The sources on the other hand may be huge. There are over 2900 files to
> >> > the full tree.
> >>
> >> Holy cow!
> >
> >Hehe. That's not even including the tools directory with the stuff needed
> >to build it in its current form. That's another 2700 files. *grin*
>
> Hmmm... I sense that I will soon have a free space crisis... :)
Don't we all!
> >> Well, if OpenDOS EMM386 is better than QEMM then I'd either have to
> >> change my CONFIG.SYS (DOS 6.22 multiconfig) into irish stew, or else
> >> I'd have to be able to let OpenDOS use a different file such as
> >> CONFIG.OPD or something. If OpenDOS doesn't let me do that, then I'll...
> >> I'll..., I'll download the source code and change CONFIG.SYS to whatever I
> >> want!!!!!!!!!! OH YES, THIS WILL BE GOOD!!!!!
>
> I'll definetly have to make some sort of patch like this... at last
> count, my CONFIG.SYS had 12 different configurations... :)
I've got a CONFIG.SYS which is 10k, has submenus, 29 configs altogether.
All of them are needed too! Some less frequent than others, but they
still get used. My AUTOEXEC.BAT is only 2k, but I've removed all of the
meat and potatoes out to separate config files after it grew past 20k. I
now have a DOS C:\ETC directory where I put batch files that replace the
GOTO %CONFIG% of years past. In my AUTOEXEC it calls
CALL \ETC\%CONFIG%.BAT now. Also, I've got a SBLASTER.BAT, SUBSTDRV.BAT,
VIRUSSCN.BAT, and many others that are called from many other batch files.
This setup was the only way for me to go considering all of the things
that I do on my machine, and all of the configuration headaches.
My friends come over and look at my CONFIG.SYS/AUTOEXEC.BAT/ETC directory
setup, and they start pointing crucifixes at my computer! It is funny to
see the look on someone's face when they see you have a 20k AUTOEXEC.BAT
file and theirs is only like 300 bytes. It would be really nice to do
away with some of this complexity however. Linux configuration is enough
to worry about!
> >> Can you suggest a good free one that is text menu based like the MSDOS
> >> multiconfig? I hate LILO very much.
> >
> >Not really. I don't use them.
>
> I'm playing around with GRUB right now (http://www.uruk.org/grub) trying
> to get satisfactory DOS (and hopefully, therefore, OpenDOS) bootups. If
> (when) I get it right, I'll post instructions here.
Cool. I'll wait.
TTYL
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