On Tuesday 20 January 2004 1:43 am, John Andersen wrote:
And 98 can not boot to a dos prompt.
guess again, junior -- try this:
go to the root directory of your boot disk
attrib -r -h -s msdos.sys
edit msdos.sys
save and re-attribute the file as read-only, hidden, & system
reboot
Your "class assignment": explain why "notepad" won't work until you run
"win.com" first... :)
Microsoft tries REALLY hard to hide the fact that "windows" is nothing more
than KDE, gnome, or even Presentation Manager -- even though these are the
programs that "manage the user's interaction via a graphical environment", we
don't call them "linux" or "OS/2", now do we? [ok, maybe a few OS/2 zealots
refer to PM as OS/2, but only those that are "still recent converts" from the
windows world ;) ]
Tom
p.s. -- totally off the beaten track here, but for real fun and giggles, try
this: [note: needs a computer where you can totally wipe out C:]
boot a system using a win98 boot floppy -- note that there is no "splash"
screen
[note also that you are at a "true dos prompt"]
format a hard drive with the "/s" parameter to make it a bootable system
disk
boot from the hard disk -- explain where the "splash" screen came from
since it wasn't on the boot floppy...
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