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  • From: James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: Compiling with Bl3 Re: [BL] Get_info on PCMCIA
  • Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 12:39:09 -0600 (CST)

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




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