No. Windows Me doesn't include Real Mode DOS, so it's impossible to boot the system into DOS mode or reboot the system into DOS mode. You can, however, use a Windows Me boot disk to boot into a command prompt.

Sure, you can. Create a primary partiton BEFORE your Windows partition (e.g. with PartitionMagic) and get a boot manager (I use the german tool 'Bootmanager', you can get a free trial version at http://www.bootmanager-pro.de).

First, start up SmartDrive to speed things up. Next, run WINNT from the I386 folder. Setup should launch, warn you if you don't have SmartDrive loaded, copy the cd to a temporarily to your hard disk and reboot your computer. A more detailed guide.

A few people have reported this problem. It appears to be related to some CD drives that have DMA issues. If this solution works for you, would you mind sending us mail (linux-project@pcquest.com) telling us what CDROM drive and motherboard you use? Thanks! The file zlib-1.1.3-22.i386.rpm on the CD seems to be corrupted, and I am getting errors mentioning libz.so.1 The distribution supports this setup under certain circumstances, but you must follow a slightly complicated method.

If you press the F8 key during the message "MS-DOS is started..." is displayed, you are switched in the step-by-step boot process and are able to suppress the Windows start. Program Manager has a limitation on the number of groups that you can create. You are also limited to 40 Program Items per group. Remove a group/item, and try again. The install should work successfully. Look in the [windows] section of your 'win.ini' file.

Use the command map, to exchange BIOS drives virtually, like this: grub> root (hd1,0) grub> chainloader +1 grub> map (hd0) (hd1) grub> map (hd1) (hd0) I have a separate boot partition on GNU/Linux (or another UNIX-like system), and GRUB seems not to handle this situation correctly. Because GRUB is a boot loader and it normally runs under no operating system, it doesn't know where a partition is mounted under your operating systems.

To create a directory in a command prompt/DOS window you will first need to open a DOS window (described above). Once you have done this you need to navigate to the directory that you wish to place the new directory in (described above). Once you have gotten this far you simply type the following "md [NEW DIRECTORY NAME]" where you specify the name of the directory you would like to create by replacing the "[NEW DIRECTORY NAME]" in the preceding string with the name you want.

XP, Windows 2000, and Windows NT don't contain DOS, although XP can create DOS-bootable disks. All three OSs support the cmd.exe command shell, which lets you run NT-equivalent DOS commands. In XP, go to Start, Programs, Accessories or click Start, Run, then type to start the command shell. For earlier application support, you might want to try the command.com shell, which is more compatible with MS-DOS than cmd.exe is. In XP, click Start, Run, then type to start the command.com shell. Command.

Yes, and no. By default, Cygwin g++ produces an executable that is a "console application" intended to be run from within the Cygwin environment called bash. If your environment is set up right then double-clicking on the executable in Windows Explorer will run the program in a shell, but the shell will disappear as soon as the program exits (if this doesn't work for you it probably means that the cygwin directory isn't in your path).

Well, firstly we are developing a Windows user interface. This will be Win-32, i.e. it will run under Windows 95 and Windows NT. But since the compiler is a non-graphical application, and the DOS interface runs quite happily under all flavours of Windows already, it has not been as high a priority as making sure that the basic functionality is top-notch. In other words, we believe an excellent compiler with a DOS front-end is better than an average compiler with a Windows front end.

How do i boot into Linux after re-installing Windows? Windows seems to have overwritten LILO on the MBR.

If the iPAQ is displaying anything on the screen, then it is not a brick. If it responds on the serial port, then it is not a brick. See Q: 2.1.. Once you are at the boot> prompt, you can modify the parameters passed to the kernel at boot time, install a new Linux distribution, or install PocketPC. If that does not work, try turning off power to the unit with the the Section called iPAQ ''Hard Reset'' Switch. Leave it off for a minute, then turn it back on and try again.

You can configure your computer to start Windows 2000, Windows NT, and either Windows 95 or Windows 98. However, you cannot configure a computer to multiple boot Windows 95 and Windows 98. Both Windows 95 and Windows 98 use the same boot file. Therefore, multiple booting Windows 95 and Windows 98 at the same time is not supported. Your installations are less prone to problems if you install Windows 95 or Windows 98 before you install Windows NT and Windows 2000.

Remember, the IO is basically a standard pentium class PC with a standard BIOS and a 16MB flash memory card. Please read some of the messages in the "Technical" area on the I-Appliance Discussion Forum BBS, you will find many posts there talking about different OS's and how other installations went.

You can either safe boot the Falcon and that will immediately put you at the DOS prompt, or you can press capital C at the 'Press Any Key To Continue' screen, then select exit.

This is another symptom of the problem described in the preceding question. Your BIOS geometry and FreeBSD geometry settings do not agree! If your controller or BIOS supports cylinder translation (often marked as ''>1GB drive support''), try toggling its setting and reinstalling FreeBSD.

If you just let OFW auto-boot, booting from NAND FLASH should just work, provided that there is no USB disk with a valid kernel (/boot/vmlinuz) or boot script (/boot/olpc-boot.fth). If you want to boot from NAND FLASH manually (i.e. from the ok prompt), you will first have to set the boot-file , boot-device , and ramdisk configuration variables. There are three ways to do that: If your NAND FLASH has a kernel in the standard place, i.e.

Windows XP does not have pure DOS mode, the only two ways are to execute "CMD"(preferred) or "COMMAND" from the run dialog box. If you want the real pure one, you can boot up from a DOS/Win95/98/ME boot disk or create one using Windows XP itself (insert a diskette, right click the drive in My Computer, Format, check Make System Disk) or you can install 2 OS's (like Windows 95/98/ME, which allows you to access pure DOS).

If LILO doesn't work, and if the machine has MS-DOS or Microsoft Windows, you may be left with a computer that won't boot. This can also happen on an upgrade to your Linux distribution. Re-installing LILO is the last thing that the installation does. So it is vitally important when installing or upgrading Linux on a dual boot machine, to have a MS-DOS or Windows rescue disk nearby so you can FDISK -MBR. Then you can go about using LOADLIN.EXE instead of LILO.

If you're running Pro, you can use GPEDIT.MSC to prevent Messenger from loading. Otherwise, even disabling it in startup won't cause it to "always" not run. Outlook, Outlook Express and some Microsoft web pages can still make it load. You can now modify whether it starts initially and/or whether it is to run at all. If you don't have Pro, run Windows Messenger, Tools, Options and uncheck "Run this program when Windows starts".

Go to Explorer, insert a floppy disk, right-click on the A Drive, click Format, check Make System disk and click OK.

Posted in Bootstrike Forums by wmccain] Windows XP includes TWO command-line processors, CMD.EXE and COMMAND.COM. The second one, COMMAND.COM, is a stripped-down version of the command processor from DOS. The Windows XP version of COMMAND.COM is severely restricted in its capabilities (lacks long filename support and many other features familiar from Windows 98SE), so it is all-but-unusable. Furthermore, it turns out that there are TWO ways to run CMD.

No. Windows XP is not based on DOS, as is Windows 9x. However, Windows XP does support a DOS-like command line environment, and you can run most DOS applications--and even many DOS games--in Windows XP. Windows XP also supports an optional boot-time command line environment called the Recover Console. As its name suggests, the Recovery Console is only designed to be used in the event of a system problem. To enable it, insert your Windows XP CD-ROM and type

The 200LX may be a few years old, but it is a far better computing device than any Windows CE machine. A few of its strengths: Pocket Quicken built in (keep track of your finances without spending any extra money for the financial software)

I just used the '-s' option on the boot, but I can't write anything onto the disk. What is wrong? If I use a plain 'mount' command it tells me that my root file system is read-only. I want to install by NFS but I am having all kinds of problems connecting to the Sun server where the files are.