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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Thu, 25 Nov 2004, Sheldon Isaac wrote:

> > > Using LOADLIN from the DOS that comes with Windows 98.
>
> Sindi said:
> > Would this loadlin be on the Win98 CD?  It is not installed as part of
> > Win98.
>
> Sorry, I meant that I used LOADLIN (comes in the BL package) under the
> DOS that comes along with Windows 98, I think ver 7.10.

If I use the DOS from Windows 98 my motherboard problems disappear, but 
that means rebooting with a floppy disk, or putting Win98 DOS on my 
computer, after which I cannot defragment it with the Win98 DOS defrag 
unless I run Win98.  I woudl have to use a DR-DOS or FreeDOS boot floppy 
to defrag.  Possible but a nuisance.

> > Are you saying that WIN98 DOS loadlin works to boot linux on your
> > board after you boot into some DOS other than Win98 DOS?
>
> No, I haven't used other DOSs hardly at all.  I think that BL3.32 didn't
> start up when I tried LOADLIN under 4DOS 7.50

4DOS is an add-on to DOS.  I have not tried booting with it loaded.


> > Will your ASUS boot linux from DR-DOS or MS-DOS or Free-DOS with loadlin
> > from Steven
>
> I'll see what I have around; maybe FreeDOS, as well as 4DOS.

Thanks.  Skip 4DOS - try FreeDOS, MS-DOS 6.22, or DR-DOS if you have them.
4DOS is not a DOS, it goes on top of it like a shell.

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