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Progman.ini on Windows 3.11Boot CD
Name: YoSaxMan Date: March 18, 2004 at 09:17:45 Pacific OS: Windows 3.11 CPU/Ram: P Pro 200
Comment:
I created a CD with Dos 6.22 and Windows 3.11. It boots fine, until prompted that the progman.ini needs write access. If you ignore the error the CD boots fine. Is there a way to set an environment var to point progman.ini to a RamDrive?
Name: El-Trucha Date: March 18, 2004 at 11:58:20 Pacific
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Win3.1 boot CD?? that's a GREAT idea!! does it boot with all the files like Knoppix???
El-Trucha
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Response Number 2
Name: Soedesh Date: March 18, 2004 at 18:36:02 Pacific
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Consider using a RAM drive and at boottime copy the Windows image from the CD rom to that. You can read about running Windows from RAM on my homepage http://soedesh.webhop.net
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Response Number 3
Name: Mick C Date: March 20, 2004 at 03:31:13 Pacific
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I am not 100% sure here. But since PROGMAN.INI is called as the default Shell by SYSTEM.INI. If after setting up a RAM Drive in Autoexec.Bat as say Drive F could you not then call F:\PROGMAN.INI as your shell in SYSTEM.INI?
This is of course if you never intend to make any major changes since both WIN.INI & SYSTEM.INI will be write protected on your CD! but Windows does not seem to mind that..
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