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

On Fri, 26 Nov 2004, Sheldon Isaac wrote:

> > 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.

> Offhand, I don't see that defragmenting the hard disk is needed?
I run DOS programs and like to keep my drive defragmented.

> All you need to boot MS-DOS 7.10 is  io.sys, msdos.sys, and command.com
> in the root directory of C: drive?

But then defrag from DR-DOS won't work on there, I don't think.  At least 
it will not work on my Windows computer.  I will try it on the ASUS or 
DFI.  Do I need a matched set of these three files or might changing just 
one of them fix my problem?  (Which would be far easier than switching the 
drives and cards between my Windows and non-Windows computers and getting 
Windows to work in its new home).  I will experiment.  Thanks for the 
idea.


> > > > Will your ASUS boot linux from DR-DOS or MS-DOS or Free-DOS with loadlin
> > > > from Steven
>
> > 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.
>
> Sindi, I need to do some other things now, so will just report on this
> morning's activities.
YOu mean you work for a living ? ;)

> [ASUS P5A rev 1.03, BIOS ver 1.09 I think. Matrox Productiva G100 AGP
> video, ISA Sportster 56k modem, ISA SB16 sound card, couple of hard
> drives on IDE 1 & 2, ASUS CD-ROM, Plextor CD-RW]
>
> (BL3.3.2 had already been installed to /dev/hda2)
>
> I found a set of two floppies. Booted with "1", and was instructed to put
> in floppy "2".
> Apparently IBM/MS-DOS 3.3 booted, and then loadlin started BL2.1 ramdisk.
>
> Then, having downloaded a 0.9 beta?  FreeDOS, I rawrite2 the .img file to
> floppy disk.
>
> Renamed C:\io.sys and msdos.sys and command.com to other names.
>
> Booted with that.
>
> It says FreeDOS kernel 0.0.35
>
> Went to C:\baslin
>
> booted BL3 just fine.

Sounds like your ASUS motherboard works properly, unlike mine.  Mine
worked properly the first day but not the second.  Something must have 
gone wrong in the hardware.  Thanks for checking.  Now you have a 2-floppy 
BL2 rescue disk set that you can also impress your friends with!

I just remembered that the ASUS DOS drive was formatted with DR-DOS and 
PQ-Magic, and when you boot it with Win98 boot disk you cannot use C: (no 
files on it except the autoexec.bat and config.sys which we put on A:). 
Perhaps putting the Win98 boot files on hard disk will eliminate this 
problem - it seems to look for C: on the boot drive.

Thanks to you for your efforts.  Sindi

> Thanks,
>
> Sheldon Isaac
>
>
>
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