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Can someone explain to me how to setup Dosstart.bat?  I can't even
find it on my hard drive.  How do I set it up?  Does it work like a
Config.sys and an Autoexec.bat?  Thanks.

On Tue, 01 Oct 1996 12:49:38 -0700, Eric Franzen

Dosstart.bat if I'm not not mistaken is in the root directory of windows 95
and can be edited just like your config.sys and autoexec.bat

: Can someone explain to me how to setup Dosstart.bat?  I can't even
: find it on my hard drive.  How do I set it up?  Does it work like a
: Config.sys and an Autoexec.bat?  Thanks.

It is in the c:\windows\ directory, and it works like the autoexec.bat, but
only runs when you restart in dos mode, so you can load drivers needed for
dos, without having them load and take up memory in Win 95.  I moved all
my drivers to this file, and now my Autoexec consists only of my path
statement.
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:   Mine doesn't have a Dosstart file so I guess I'll have to create one.
: One thing I don't like is having to load my CD-Rom driver and Sound Card
: Driver in Config.sys because it takes Win95 longer to load and is
: unnecessary.  I was just wondering if there was a way around this
: without using a boot disk.  Thanks for your help.

There should be an "ExitToDos.PIF in your Windows directory.  Set the
properties for this PIF to run a new autoexec.bat & config.sys when
Shutting Down and starting a DOS session

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Good Luck,
Mike Radler

But When installing win95 it deletes important files from your dos directory.....So i just zip up my
dos dir install win95 and unzip the dos stuff back......

Whilst it seems a little long winded, it is much better in the long run since Win95 is  ***NOT***
for games playing!!!!!!  way too slowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

Yeah, but they use the same config.sys and autoexec.bat files, and
Win95 likes to play crash-o-matic with DOS PC Card drivers and the
like.

What I did is make a 1000Mb partition (for Win95) and a 30Mb partition
(for DOS).  Format 'em and xcopy the \DOS directory into D drive..
then change the line of config.sys from "SHELL=c:\dos\command.com" to
"shell=d:\dos\command.com"..

Then install all your DOS drivers and utilities (scanner, PCMCIA,
power management, screen saver, etc..) and get them to pile their junk
on the D drive.

Install Win95 over the top and voila... your default is Win95 with no
DOS junk in it, press F4 (or F8 - 8 if you like the menu) and you'll
get your original DOS 6.22 with all the DOS drivers running
seperately.

BTW, I've found 30Mb was too much (!) for DOS.. I'm only using 9 meg
of it so far.

If you want any more info, feel free to email.  It was the only
solution I could find that I was 100% comfortable with.

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http://netspace.net.au/~petert/

Windows 95 does not use the same AUTOEXEC and CONFIG.SYS for booting itself
or the previous DOS version. Look carefully in your root and you will see
that once your are in Win95, it is using AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS, but
there is an AUTOEXEC.DOS and a CONFIG.DOS that will be used when booting a
previous version of dos and that can be fully customized (mine are almost
completely empty). When you do boot DOS, then it is using AUTOEXEC.BAT and
CONFIG.SYS but those have been renamed from the 2 .DOS files and the
orignal ones have been renamed to .W40 (or something like that)
So, don't waste your time creating partitions all over the show, it is time
consuming and very unflexible when you need to reallocate space. Win 95 is
smarter than most people think and this is one of its nice feature

JFD

I built my machine with a brand new version of Win95 so I have no
previous DOS to boot into.
However, I have set up a 'multi-config' in the same way as you
could with DOS 6.22.  Now when I boot my PC it comes up with a
boot menu from where I can 'Play a DOS game' or 'Load Win95'.  It
defaults to Win95 after 10 seconds.  If I choose 'Play a DOS
game' the relevant mouse, sound, CD drivers are loaded and I get
presented with a menu of the games I have installed.
It was dead easy and well worth doing - try it - don't forget to
optimise your startup files (autoexec.bat/config.sys) using
memmaker which can be found on the Win95 CD.