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Name: Walt
Date: January 8, 2001 at 18:12:27 Pacific
Subject: Beos and WinME
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I currently am runnung WinME on my computer, I downloaded Beos and installed it but when I tried to run the program it said Windows did not support that type of DOS application.
Is there a standalone version of Beos i can get or one that runs from WinME?


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Response Number 1
Name: Chris Hodapp
Date: January 13, 2001 at 19:52:25 Pacific
Reply: (edit)

You have basically one choice - make a bootdisk. Windows Startup disk, whatever. Windows Me doesn't let you system format a floppy disk to make a boot disk, and has all dos-mode features removed. I have BeOS 5 Personal Edition (love it too) and it came with an option to make a bootdisk.


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Response Number 2
Name: me
Date: January 18, 2001 at 08:18:07 Pacific
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you have to make a beos boot disk-
boot to beos, goto boot/be/bin-
run bootman,
next time you boot it will ask wich OS
you want to boot to


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Response Number 3
Name: Fliskman
Date: January 29, 2001 at 19:48:33 Pacific
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If anyone else sees this or the asker above you can fix Win Me's non existant dos and make the computer start in dos with aquick patch for this web site.

http://www.geocities.com/mfd4life_2000/


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Response Number 4
Name: Chris
Date: February 10, 2001 at 13:48:34 Pacific
Reply: (edit)

Do NOT run the patch mentioned above! Access to MS-DOS isn't hidden at all, my friend. Simply boot with the WinME Startup Disk (can be made from Add/Remove Programs --> Startup Disk).
Boot with the disk and choose "Minimal Boot". Simple as that. Don't go replacing your IO.SYS file like the patch above suggests.


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