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dos in window 98se ?
Ever since the release of win95 (using 98se now) I have followed as much as possible the same steps in the setting up of my computers in relation to dos drivers, as I still use dos programs as well. I have yet to read or hear of any similarity in the way I do this.
First of all I load dos drivers as normal by there setup or install program having taking the time to find drivers that put statements only in the autoexec.bat file not config.sys if at all possible “I may have been lucky here but I have yet to find say a cdrom that didn’t work with creatives cd driver ” then I move these statements to the dosstart.bat if its setup hasn’t already done so, being sure to put them in the right order. I then copy the dosstart.bat file and all associated dos driver files and to make it easier there directories (if not can do some editing), to a disk then uninstall dos drivers, then copy back manually. I can also make a boot disk from this. So from then on I don’t have to run their install or setup and have statements put in other system files. Appears to be a lot of effort but I have only to do this once or on the rare occasion I change a peace of hardware and knowing I have no dos driver conflicts under windows seems worth while. I luv a clean machine!.
Would like to hear if anyone else does this or has a better way! Any comments for or against?
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packard bell restore disks (eww hate the referance) have a file called device.com, it is great for loading things like cdrom drivers (what it is actaully used for in the disks) i dont remember all the settings you got to go through - but if you have to have you cdrom driver load up from a command line (ie bat file) that would be the way to go...
btw - you dont have to worry about putting in settings in config.sys like
my personal sample)
config.sys
dos=high,umb
device=c:\windows\himem.sys
device=c:\windows\emm386.exe ram min=0
fileshigh=60
buffershigh=40
lastdrivehigh=e
fcbshigh=4,0
stackshigh=9,256
at least those settings wont have really any effect on windows - seemings how it supereseeds these with its virtual device drivers. email me if you need the file.
