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[James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, sindi keesan wrote:

> If I am going to need to use a menu to choose between FreeDOS with and
> without himem.sys, and then use loadlin, I would need to reboot FreeDOS to
> switch from using DOS programs to FreeDOS without himem sys in order to
> use linux with Xvesa.  It might be simpler in that case to use SBM/lilo if
> I expect to do a lot with Xvesa.  Can I install BL's and FreeDOS with a
> config.sys menu and then add SBM/lilo later if I end up wanting to use
> Xvesa often?

I don't know enough about DOS to know how to do this, or if it's even
possible, but could one create a batch file that would unload memory mgmt
stuff, then invoke loadlin?  Does that absolutely require a reboot?

James