Hello, wow i havent been on this forum in so long! Its nice to be back. Anyway, i just got around to playing with a copy of (Weinger's?) MS-DOS 7.1 from the (newdos.xxx.xx) website which is now defunct. Before I Risk screwing up my configuration on the pc i plan to run it on, i had a few questions (being that i have never installed this 'tweaked O.S' before).

1) Does the install program have a partition manager as part of the setup process? Can i create/format partitions during setup? Or is it set to automatically create and set up a partition? Please let me know.

2) Plan on using an 80gig and want to use the same drive for the dos install and a copy of windows and possibly linux on different partitons of course (well, dos and windows on one part. and linux on another). Even though FAT32 supports up to 2 terrabytes, im sure you have ALL ran into problems (even into windows 98) using the FDISK and FORMAT commands not displaying the hard drive size right (like a 40 may show up as a 15 or 20 at times when trying to prepair the disk). I dont know what 'Tweaks' Were made to this dos version... it is my understanding it is pretty much the same as it was when running behind windows but it is 'pulled aside' from windows 98... but im sure that the programmer made SOME fixes. Any experience with the 80gig?

Please elaborate on these two questions as they both relate to one another and will be the ultimate decisive reasonign behind whether i should install this on my pc.

Thanks,

Matthew Keegan
CCNA Certified
Network/PC Technician
Computer Repair Guys c
EatonTown, NJ - www.computerrepairguys.com

CDU-DOS or whatever you want to call it is ILLEGAL software breaching M$ Copyright.

Boot manager use XOSL:

http://www.ranish.com/part/xosl.htm

MS-DOS 7.10 use a Licensed W98SE CD and stay LEGAL:

http://www.ctyme.com/msdos7.htm

All about FAT:

http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...

A few general points

Almost all software is licensed, most certainly Microsoft

Unless a business goes bankrupt, and sometimes not even then, there is no such thing as "abandonware."

Nothing Microsoft ever licensed has ever become free.

Just because you can find a place to download it, doesn't make it freeware.

There were updates for io.sys and fdisk.exe for win98 that might be of interest for your DOS 7.10 system.
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=311561 io.sys
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=263044 fdisk.exe

I doubt the install program partitions anything for you automatically and since Weinger's posts have become quite rare around here, I'd suggest you are pretty much on your own for tips and tweaks.

Lee

There was a utility on the internet that allowed you to create a Weinger style DOS from any version of Windows 98/SE/ME. The link was http://scp.gmxhome.de/msdos71/

This consisted entirely of freeware, that modified an existing Windows 9x install, to produce the relevant DOS.

The Weinger DOS is largely a kind of modified DOS from the Chinese Windows 98/FE.

The actual modifications are something along the lines of: start with DOS from Windows 98.

1. apply the start3x patch.
2. modify Windows 98 string to MS-DOS 7.1
3. apply a pretty startup wallpaper.
4. replace a lot of the stuff with freeware.

It installs into windows XP etc as a Windows 9x style, and you can run Windows 9x or Windows 3.1 from it, (even in the same session!)

W

The dream you dream alone is only a dream,
The dream we dream together is reality.

This China DOS crap uses Licensed hacked software period.........

MSDOS 7.10 stand alone machine:

http://www.d-a-l.com/articles/libra...

I also have a posting somewhere in these C.N. forums on how to configure your 98(FE/SE) machine to allow booting to either RAW DOS or 98. A search should should find it if you're interested (probably in the 9x forum).

It's a good day when you learn something

MSDOS 7.10 was released in 2003 under the
GNU general public license as a 2 floppy set.