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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Spots who wrote (5647)	1/29/1999 1:08:00 AM
From: Zeuspaul	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 14778

Autoexec.dos and config.dos are for booting the previous version, not the Win 95/98 version. I never had a previous version of DOS on the machine I experimented with. Every time I booted to DOS (using shutdown and start up in MS DOS mode ) I had to go to the mouse directory and then load a mouse. If I did not my DOS applications had no mouse. I don't think the machine originally had an autoexec.bat nor config.sys. I created one. I believe I tried .dos extension first and it did not work. When I put the mouse driver in the autoexec.bat file the mouse loaded when I shut down and started in MS DOS mode. Clarence. All of these DOS concepts can get confusing. I will present my elementary understanding of three DOS concepts. 1) (This is really not an option.) as relates to our recent discussions. There is a DOS command prompt (Win98) if one navigates the start menu to ms dos prompt. This command prompt will run most dos apps but has limitations. It is not for rescue and bios flash operations. 2) From the shutdown menu (win98) there is a shutdown and start up in MS DOS mode. This is the mode I use to run my CAD DOS programs as they do not run from the above DOS command prompt. My reference to the EXIT option is with respect to this DOS boot option. 3)Creating the DOS boot floppy as outlined by Spots is the first choice IMO. It is a bit of a pain getting the CDROM to work but worth the effort. (I should probably make for myself<g>) FWIW I agree with Spots' approach to maintaining a working machine. I do not agree that creating a Drive Image is a waste of time..at least not for me. It took close to an hour for me just to load Win98 from a fast CDROM drive. It will take me days to get my browsers loaded and configured with telephone numbers and email accounts among other basics. I do not see maintaining and 'fixing' a working machine and backing up a working machine as competing ideas. They can each exist independent of each other and one concept has little or no affect on the implementation of the other. IMO the only valid argument is the waste of time argument. I believe experience users do not understand how much time users like myself waste trying to 'reconfigure' messed up machines. I have saved many tens and likely over a hundred hours using drive image. It may be due to my own ignorance but it is a real time savings for me. I usually fail miserably with DOS configurations which is one reason I resort to other methodologies. Trying to get all of my drives working from a DOS environment sometimes seems hopeless. I brought in a computer consultant to get one of my MO drives working from a DOS boot. He never accomplished the task..tried to tell me it could not be done. Zeuspaul