Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 05:49:51 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca>
Reply-To: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca>
To: evand AT scn DOT org
cc: OpenDOS AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Question regarding Opendos and Win#95
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On Tue, 15 Apr 1997, Evan Dickinson wrote:

> On Tue, 15 Apr 1997 mwarchol AT flash DOT net wrote
> 
> >   What if you used two hardrives with W#95 on D for example and Opendos on
> > C?  With my current machine I could do this instead of two portions
> > of one drive.  The current configuration boots to Opendos from C and I could
> > place W#95 on D?  Any additional thoughts are welcomed.
> >                                                      Mark
> [snip]
> 
> Funny thing happened just now.  I had a few extra minutes, and I decided
> to try booting 95 from D.  And *it worked*.  So first, thanks for getting
> me to try.  Now the caveats:
> 
> On my computer, C and D are both partitions of the same disk.  I don't
> know if this'll work with two different disks.
> 
> Win95 still uses config.sys, autoexec.bat and probably msdos.sys from c:.
> There is a work-around.  Copy your OpenDOS config.sys to something like
> odcfg.sys.  Rename autoexec.bat, too.  In the first line of config.sys,
> put in the command:
> 
> CHAIN=C:\ODCFG.SYS

Why bother?  Just call the opendos one "DCONFIG.SYS".  OpenDOS
looks for this first and uses it instead of CONFIG.SYS.  Then
specify "ODEXEC.BAT" as a command line option to COMMAND.COM or
4DOS in the SHELL statement in DCONFIG.SYS and use it instead of
AUTOEXEC.BAT.

SHELL=C:\DOS\COMMAND.COM /P:C:\ODEXEC.BAT

That should solve the problem for you. 

Good luck.
TTYL

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