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Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 02:50:19 +0200
From: "Vidmantas Balciunas" <vibal AT lrtc DOT lt>
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Subject: RE: DOS and WIN/98
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>What is more, my M$W95B / M$D7.10 is set-up as a
>traditional Windoze-over-DOS installation, ALA M$W3.X.
>Windoze is only started-up by "WIN" in AUTOEXEC.BAT,
>and then only if I answer "Y" to the "Windoze?" prompt!

Why ? It's more nice use multiconfig boot feature. It lets you
to use your CD, disk cache, etc. in plain DOS, and when you want 
Windoze, you run it with no DOS CD-ROM drivers & other unnecessary
features (and performance problems).
Sorry, but this works fine only on MS-DOS 7.0 & 7.1 (Win 95 / 98 / 98SE)
and not on WinME. Milenium Edition uses MS-DOS 8.0 with no support
for multicinfig booting when booting from hard disk (I don't know why ??!)
It still works fine when booting from floppy or CD. MS goes crazy...

Vidas

------------------------------- CONFIG.SYS -------------------------
[menu]
MENUITEM=w98,Windows'98 SE
MENUITEM=dos,MS-DOS 7.1
MENUDEFAULT=w98,10

[w98]
FCBSHIGH=1
FILESHIGH=65
STACKSHIGH=0,0
 
[dos]
BUFFERSHIGH=50,0
FCBSHIGH=1
FILESHIGH=50
LASTDRIVEHIGH=F
STACKSHIGH=0,0
DOS=UMB,HIGH
DOS=SINGLE,NOAUTO
DEVICE=D:\WIN98\HIMEM.SYS/TESTMEM:OFF
DEVICE=D:\WIN98\EMM386.EXE NOEMS HIGHSCAN
DEVICEHIGH=C:\DEV\TEAC_CDI.SYS /D:MSCD000 /Q

------------------------------- AUTOEXEC.BAT -------------------------
@ECHO OFF
PATH %PATH%;D:\VC;D:\ARCH;D:\UTILS
SET TMP=C:\TEMP
SET TEMP=C:\TEMP
GOTO %CONFIG%
GOTO end

:dos
LH D:\WIN98\COMMAND\MSCDEX.EXE /D:MSCD000 /M:15 /V
SMARTDRV 2048
LH VC
GOTO end

:w98
echo Hiroshima 45... Chernobyl 86... Welcome to Windows 98 SE...
:end

------------------------------- The End -------------------------

P.S. Edit paths and DOS CD-ROM driver name as needed.