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- From: Ian Scott <mriscott AT yahoo.co.uk>
- To: 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org
- Cc: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
- Subject: Re: [BL] BL3 mail menu
- Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 05:14:21 -0500 (EST)
> Your rxvt never has a cursor??? Even when running solo?
> Something is weird there. Could be a milder form of the
> Xvesa clash.
I have always had a problem when I boot linux from win98 where I have no
cursor
at all in X, and network doesn't work, etc. I get a load of IRQ conflicts
and other nasties reported when I boot up.
You can use a boot menu in dos 6.0+.
The secret is to define a bunch of menu items in config.sys and equivalent
commands in autoexec.bat.
1) Config.sys: add this at the top:
[menu]
menuitem=DOS, Boot to DOS
menuitem=BL3, Boot to BasicLinux 3
menudefault=DOS, 5
[BL3]
[DOS]
Autoexec.bat:
Add this to the top of autoexec.bat
goto %CONFIG%
:BL3
cd C:\baslin
boot
:DOS
How this works:
config.sys sets up a menu with two items: DOS and BL3. If you don't press
anything it goes to DOS after 5 seconds (the menudefault line).
There are then blocks of drivers, etc to load under [BL3] and [DOS] for each
option. Put your normal DOS drivers under [DOS] and nothing under [BL3].
autoexec.bat sets up to labels (:BL3 and :DOS). The goto %CONFIG% line goes
to
whichever is chosen in the menu - i.e. if you choose DOS, it jumps over the
lines to boot BL3.
Further details of this are available at
http://www.geocities.com/politalk/dos/bootmenu.htm. You can also do other
funky things like setting colors, etc.
Hope this helps,
Ian
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Re: [BL] BL3 mail menu
, (continued)
-
Re: [BL] BL3 mail menu,
Sindi Keesan, 03/09/2004
- Re: [BL] BL3 mail menu, 3aoo-cvfd, 03/10/2004
- Re: [BL] BL3 mail menu, Sindi Keesan, 03/10/2004
- Re: [BL] BL3 mail menu, 3aoo-cvfd, 03/10/2004
- Re: [BL] BL3 mail menu, Sindi Keesan, 03/10/2004
- Re: [BL] BL3 mail menu, James Miller, 03/10/2004
- Re: [BL] BL3 mail menu, 3aoo-cvfd, 03/10/2004
- Re: [BL] BL3 mail menu, James Miller, 03/10/2004
- Re: [BL] BL3 mail menu, Sindi Keesan, 03/10/2004
- Re: [BL] BL3 mail menu, Sindi Keesan, 03/10/2004
- Re: [BL] BL3 mail menu, Ian Scott, 03/11/2004
- Re: [BL] BL3 mail menu, Sindi Keesan, 03/11/2004
- Re: [BL] BL3 mail menu, 3aoo-cvfd, 03/11/2004
- Re: [BL] BL3 mail menu, James Miller, 03/11/2004
-
Re: [BL] BL3 mail menu,
Sindi Keesan, 03/09/2004
- Re: [BL] BL3 mail menu, James Miller, 03/11/2004
-
Re: [BL] BL3 - download problem with linux files,
Sindi Keesan, 03/12/2004
- Re: [BL] BL3 - download problem with linux files, Sindi Keesan, 03/12/2004
- Re: [BL] BL3 - download problem with linux files, 3aoo-cvfd, 03/13/2004
- Re: [BL] BL3 - download problem with linux files, Sindi Keesan, 03/13/2004
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