The heck with XP, here is an old school quesion, the DOS boot disk!

[KpocAlypse]

Anyone remember how to through one together, now back when i was 10, and dieing to play Falcon 3.0 or Star Control 2, i could make one in my sleep (it was easy as heck in 3.1 too) The sad thing is that i can do a novell network ghost disk in my sleep today, but booting to a cd-rom....Oh boy, its beeeeeen to long....

Does this look close to right?

Config.sys
(menu select here)

DEVICE=himem.sys
DEVICE=emm386.exe
DOS=high,umb
DEVICEHIGH=(cddriver here) /D:MSCD001

Autoexec.bat

MSCDEX.EXE /D:MSCD001

(ghost run line here)

This is going to be used as a "ghost" boot disk for imaging our beater p200 machines...I'll be making a Floppy emulated boot CD later... (and if anyone has a better idea share..😉 )

 

[Dengar]

see if this helps:

Bootdisk.com

 

[Escalade]

Here's an actual working CONFIG.SYS file...

DEVICEHIGH=A:\MSDOS\HIMEM.SYS /testmem : off /VERBOSE
;DEVICEHIGH=A:\MSDOS\EMM386.EXE AUTO
DEVICE=A:\CDROM\CDMKE.SYS /SBP:220 /D:MSCD000
INSTALLHIGH=A:\CDROM\MSCDEX.EXE /D:MSCD000 /M:10 /E /V
INSTALLHIGH=A:\MSDOS\SMARTDRV.EXE 4096 /V
DOS=HIGH,UMB
STACKS=0,0
FCBS=1,0
BUFFERS=10,0
FILES=50
LASTDRIVE=E


and the matching AUTOEXEC.BAT...

@ECHO OFF
SET CONFIG=
PROMPT $P-$G
SET DIRCMD=/L/O/P
SEt PATH=A:\; A:\MSDOS

You'll see I put the 'MSCDEX.EXE' line in the config.sys file instead and told it to use expanded memory (if available). I think you'll also want to get a 'SMARTDRV.EXE' ine in there as well. I'm not loading 'EMM386.EXE' because I don't need expanded memory support, without it you'll only have access to extended memory.

<edit>
Note the "HIMEM.SYS /testmem : off" there shouldn't be a space around the colon, but when I type it as it should appear "HIMEM.SYS /testmem😱ff" the emotion gifs take over 🙂

 

[Maetryx]

<< @ECHO OFF >>



Kill that line though. Why be ignorant of what's loading?

 

[Maetryx]

Maetryx here, 😎

also, I always liked to load ansi.sys (or nansi.sys) in the config.sys and then use this for a prompt:

PROMPT $e[1;36m$p$e[1;33m$g$e[1;32m

which gave me acyan path ($p) a yellow greater than sign ($g) and file listings or command that I typed in green.