I have a 486 with Win and DOS. It currently starts at Win. How do i make it boot up and start at dos?
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I have a 486 with Win and DOS. It currently starts at Win. How do i make it boot up and start at dos?
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1 get to dos
2 type:
del C:\win
(or where ever the win exe is)
So i have to delete windows?!?!?!? I dont even remember seeing a win.exe.
I Think its called win.com.
you could rename win.com to _win.com or something, then you could change it back anytime.
This should work for older versions of Windows.
Open up C:\autoexec.bat in your favourite text editor.
The last line should be "win", remove that line.
Make a boot disk first just in case something goes wrong.
guys guys guys, I was just kidding when I said to delete windows, I'm sure that there is a way to do it by click the mouse. Check out the control panel in win3.1 I can't help you any furthur becuase I dont have win 3.1 installed (it fits on 6 flopies)
Well ive decided to delete every thing and just re-install dos. Now the problem is that i need a C++ compiler for DOS, NOT for console applications.
is it free
not that I need it, I was just wondering
I have DJGPP on my PIII, i cant use it on the 486 cuz id have to transfer it by floppies. It will have to be 4 MB or less. And DJGPP is 32 bits, it requires windows.
Use "noone's" solution after you automatically boot to windows.
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This should work for older versions of Windows.
Open up C:\autoexec.bat in your favourite text editor.
The last line should be "win", remove that line.
Make a boot disk first just in case something goes wrong.
You're all on the wrong track here.
Set the file c:\msdos.sys to non-hidden, non-readonly. If there is a line BootGUI=1 or there is no line, set it to BootGUI=0
Then, set it back to hidden, readonly. Restart the computer and it will appear in DOS 7.
Well its too late for that. Ive deleted everything and am looking for a small O/S to download.
get linux
Linux is to big to download and i dont have any money to buy it with.
You can download the kernel and core tools only, which is only about 10 megs.