Well first of all have a good and meaningful Memorial Day. Second of all, I am attempting to fix a old laptop (toughbook cf 27) that simply will not boot from the CD drive, it will only boot from the floppy drive. To install some sort of operating system I installed PCDos 7.0 first, then will install Win 95A so I can use the CD drive, then will install anything from Win98 to XP Pro. But I have to wait for the Win95A to show up in the mail later in the week and I wish to play around in this thing in PCDos, but I'd like to run it from Dosshell but I do not know the command line to run Shell.exe from the C: prompt as I have to modify config.sys to add the command line to boot directly into Shell. Does anyone happen to know the command line to run Shell from the C: prompt?
Let's see: - You have DOS installed and it's running? - You want to execute DOS Shell? - You want to modify the config.sys so it will always execute DOS Shell upon booting? Right?
couldn't you just edit your autoexec.bat to run shell.exe at the end of the boot? the file should be in your dos directory. i'd do some searching with "dir /s /p"
That is correct, I need the command line to insert into the config.sys file along with where to insert it.
I believe it can be done either way, but I will eventually need the C: prompt to install win95A with C:/A: setup.exe
I might be totally mistaken, but wasn't DOS Shell (we're referring to the graphical, Windows-like interface, right?) removed in DOS 6.22 and above?
Well, this is IBM's PCDos 7.0, it was meant to be a competitor to Win 3.1 and 3.11 and 95a and does have a dosshell routine. I suspect it will not have Icons, (though Norton Commander and a host of other GUI's were created for it) but it will have a sort of Windows Explorer function listing files and programs.
Tried that as well. A different track perhaps, I have a old DOS gui floppy called "freeby3.zip" How would I unzip and install that? PC DOS does have a unzipping function
Scratch the above, I found an ancient LapLink floppy with NC1.exe on it, which is Norton Commander 1.0. What would the command line be to install? I've tried simply typing: A:> NC1.exe No joy, I think it is merely rewriting NC1.exe back unto the floppy. Would it be A:>C\NC1.exe?
ok, then the command line for your config.sys would be something like "path c:\dos" to enable you to run commands from that directory in your c prompt.
Well, that laplink floppy has Norton Commander on it, NC1 exe, however i type NC1 exe and it self extracts..but doesn't write to the C: drive. What does show up is LAPLINK <DIR>
i'd copy that nc1.exe file to the c drive with something like "copy nc1.exe c:" or "copy nc1.exe c:\" after that i'd go to c: and type nc1 after that i'd go to that directory with "cd laplink;" browse for a new exe with "dir /p" when you are done, setting the path in your config.sys should be the same. it would just be "path c:\laplink" or something like that.
