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From: "Weiqi Gao" <weiqigao AT crl DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [opendos] OpenDOS + Win95 w/FAT32?
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 00:13:17 -0600
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mharris@ wrote:

>>The menu is for configuring grub while you are booted to DOS.  (Isn't
that
>>what someone says he wants?)

>Hmm, yeah, I guess it could be easily done, but a quick Borland
>"conio.h" program would be better than using 4DOS in this case
>IMO.  BTW, if anyone wants me to, I'm willing to do this if
>enough interest is shown.  (BTW, I thought your 4DOS comment was
>just a joke.  :o)

Hmmm... A joke huh?  I wish I had though of that earlier.

Well, I'm all for people throwing good ideas at OpenDOS (like swapping out
FAT and in ext2).  I just want to caution people that the project list
could grow very long.

On the multi-booting MS-DOS and OpenDOS with grub front, I can achieve what
you described in the success story yesterday, with grub.  I installed
MS-DOS, copies all the system files to MSDOSBAK (IO.SYS, MSDOS.SYS,
COMMAND.COM, CONFIG.SYS, AUTOEXEC.BAT and WINA20.386), and saved the boot
record to MSDOS.BT.  Did the same with OpenDOS---ODOSBAK (IBMBIO.COM,
IBMDOS.COM, COMMAND.COM, CONFIG.SYS, AUTOEXEC.BAT, OPENDOS.386),
OPENDOS.BT.

I then configured grub to boot both systems:
For MS-DOS:
MSDOS.BT->IO.SYS->MSDOS.SYS->CONFIG.SYS->COMMAND.COM->AUTOEXEC.BAT,
For OpenDOS:
OPENDOS.BT->IBMBIO.COM->IBMDOS.COM->DCONFIG.SYS->DCOMMAND.COM->DAUTOEXE.BAT.


For the OpenDOS boot, I used the DCONFIG.SYS: SHELL=C:\DCOMMAND.COM
/P:DAUTOEXE.BAT trick.  I also have to set COMSPEC=C:\DCOMMAND.COM in
DAUTOEXE.BAT or TASKMGR will complain.  Of course, I have renamed my
OpenDOS COMMAND.COM to DCOMMAND.COM and the OpenDOS AUTOEXEC.BAT to
DAUTOEXE.BAT, in keeping with convention of DCONFIG.SYS.

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Weiqi Gao
weiqigao AT crl DOT com