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  • From: Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] Re: repartitioning for linux?
  • Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 11:35:55 -0400 (EDT)

On Sun, 25 Apr 2004, Ian Scott wrote:

> >win c:\progra~1\wordview
> >
> >this goes right into wordview
> >but first loads the desktop.

> To run just your program in gui mode, edit win.ini and change the shell
> entry to the name of the program to run. I have a program to do this, which
> I run from a dos menu, so I can choose to run command.com so I get just a
> commandline which I can run windows stuff from. I wrote this program, and am
> happy to post it if anyone wants.

We would love to try your program for running non-desktop no-icons Win
programs. Could it be used to run two Windows programs in a row, such as
dialup networking and then realaudio?

> >> > Does anyone know how
> >to stop the Windows bmp
> >from coming onscreen while
> >booting into non-gui mode?
> >(Is there some file I can just
> >delete somewhere?).
>

> As well as editting msdos.sys, you can just create a zero-sized logo.sys
> file in the root of your C drive.

> I did this on my BL laptop, which has no windows, but has a DOS drive
> formatted via win98 format /s. This produced a drive with no msdos.sys, but
> it still did the boot logo thing.

That explains why when we boot a Win98 computer using a Win98 boot floppy
disk without msdos.sys on it we still get the logo. But I don't think the
logo appears when booting a non-Windows computer with a Win98 boot disk
that does not have msdos.sys.

We will attack this both ways - 0 length logo.sys file on the boot
floppies and logo=0 on our own Win98 computers. Thanks again.

I am amazed at how many people even hate the sight of Windows.





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