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On Wed, 26 Mar 1997, Gwynzel B Vargas wrote:
> Hello, I'm a new member to the mailing list, and the type of machine I
> have is
> a 365XD. I just purchased the machine a couple days ago and I already
> want
> to kill Windows :) I'm mostly a DOS fan so I'd like to boot up in pure
> 100% DOS
> but I'd like to keep a minimal installation (is there a such thing?? :)
> of Win'95 on
> the HD, so what's the best way of going about it? Should I start killing
> off the
> extra icons & Win programs or should I start off from scratch and just
> reformat
> the drive? Will it be safe to reformat to DOS 5.0 or will Win'95 have a
> problem with
> it? Thanks for any info!
>
If you don't mind leaving win95 intact, just get into msdos.sys and
change the "BootGUI=1" line to read "BootGUI=0". Then it will act much
like DOS/Win3.1 did. It will boot to DOS, then if you want to run Win95
just type "win" and hit enter.
You will have to change the atributes for msdos.sys 'attrib msdos.sys
-s -h -r" so you can edit it, then change it back with "attrib msdos.sys
+s +h +r". If you are that much of a DOS person that would be easy. =)
With Win95 msdos.sys just becomes a place to store some settings.
You could always wipe away Win95 entirely, but I'd recommend keeping it
intact.
Steve
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