Dosstart

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 >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. DOSSTART.BAT is in your windows directory. ( assuming you're running WIn95 since you knew the name of the thing). Its basically an autoexec.bat that 95 runs when you start in DOS mode. If you don't have one, just write one using notepad. It does NOT do config.sys commands, if there are some you have to have, put them in your real config.sys all the time, or use a boot disk. ( the device drivers for your cd-rom will usually have to go in there for dos mode to use it, even if 95 can find your cd without it.

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. -- __________________________________________________________ Member Alpha Psi chapter __________________________________________________________

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> On Tue, 01 Oct 1996 12:49:38 -0700, Eric Franzen > >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. > DOSSTART.BAT is in your windows directory. ( assuming you're running > WIn95 since you knew the name of the thing). Its basically an > autoexec.bat that 95 runs when you start in DOS mode. If you don't > have one, just write one using notepad. It does NOT do config.sys > commands, if there are some you have to have, put them in your real > config.sys all the time, or use a boot disk. ( the device drivers for > your cd-rom will usually have to go in there for dos mode to use it, > even if 95 can find your cd without it.

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.

: 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 -- **************************** Michael E. Carver ************************* Upside out, or inside down...False alarm the only game in town. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=<[ /./. [- < ]>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

>Can someone explain to me how to setup Dosstart.bat?<snip> If your running Win95 it needs to be in the Windows directory ( or whatever directory you installed Win95 in). Yes, it acts exactly like a an autoexec.bat file. It runs when shutting down to dos. If it's not there, make one with a text editor and put the commands you want in it (ie. mouse, CD, sound stuff etc...). Good Luck, Mike Radler

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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 >-- >**************************** Michael E. Carver ************************* > Upside out, or inside down...False alarm the only game in town. >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=<[ /./. [- < ]>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

If Win95 was installed correctly then all you need to do is hit f8 at the starting win95 prompt and then choose boot previous version of DOS........ 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. -- Peter Tilmanis http://netspace.net.au/~petert/

> >If Win95 was installed correctly then all you need to do is hit f8 at the starting win95 prompt 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.